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Field Reportings - News from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Field Reportings from Issue #45
WAR ON WAR: Artists within the country and Americana music communities have expressed their views on the war in Iraq recently in a variety of ways, and have provoked a variety of reactions. Media attention has focused primarily on the Dixie Chicks after singer Natalie Maines commented to a London audience on March 10, “Just [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Retail Chart from Issue #45
1 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note) 2 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (Lost Highway/American) 3 Beck, Sea Change (Geffen) 4 Kathleen Edwards, Failer (Zoe/Rounder) 5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Live (Rounder) 6 Dixie Chicks, Home (Wide Open/Monument/Sony) 7 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 8 Various Artists, O Brother, [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Box Full of Letters from Issue #45
Stuck inside of Spokane: With the political blues again Recently I was stuck in the Spokane airport when my plane did not go out, and so I had a lot of time on my hands to ponder why a No Depression reader would be so upset about the politics of Steve Earle and the perceived [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Hello Stranger from Issue #45
Well, you got this far, so that’s encouraging. You will be wondering about the remarkable figure who adorns our cover, then. Hopefully you will not have jumped to the conclusion that Little Miss Cornshucks is a joke, some kind of post-hip ironic twist. She was anything but. Anything but. Little Miss Cornshucks was a special [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Got live if you want it
With extended music videos culled from TV origins, we get mainly (even on DVD) concert films and maybe a little bio, or documentaries with “selected” cut-up performances. Results vary as the usual imitations are overcome. Ryan Adams Live in Jamaica (Image Entertainment) is the 14th release taken from MTV’s “Music In High Places” series, which [...]
Sittin' & Thinkin' - Essay from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Bluegrass: The Missing Years
In theory, musical tradition would seem to be a pretty straightforward proposition: A style is handed down from one generation to the next as young musicians serve apprenticeships, learn the history and characteristics of a style, and then go on to make their own contributions within the framework they’ve mastered. That process — again, in [...]
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