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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Jay Farrar – Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
Jay Farrar’s appeal has always been as much in his sound as his songs. It’s a sound that has remained remarkably consistent through several bands and settings. Over his career, the musical backdrops have varied from traditionalist country to naked acoustic folk to raging, feedback-drenched rock. But a few things stay constant: his rugged, diesel-fueled [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Box Full of Letters from Issue #51
Patty Griffin: “Filled with emotion” Just wanted to send an appreciative note for the delightful feature on Patty Griffin in ND #50 [March-April 2004]. John T. Davis did a wonderful job capturing the magic and energy that infects everything Patty does. Her music is so beautiful and filled with emotion that it makes you want [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Hello Stranger from Issue #51
I recall an evening, a good while before this magazine came into existence, in which my future co-editor and I were discussing the status of a local music rag that was in the midst of troubled times, and how it was (or was not) adapting to the challenge. Grant uttered something which was partly related [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Field Reportings from Issue #51
STILL FEEL (NOT SO) GONE: In addition to the new live CD and DVD package Stone, Steel & Bright Lights (reviewed in this issue’s Live Wires section), Jay Farrar is offering a downloadable live show through his website (www.jayfarrar.net) of a July 24, 2003, gig at Seattle’s Showbox nightclub featuring Farrar backed by guitarist Mark [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
The Twisted Side of Twang
Spring Fever? Something in the air has allowed a pile of new roots video DVDs from the twisted end of the Twang Continuum to escape all at once — mainly, it seems, from California. The most mind-boggling of the offerings from the bizarre bazaar didn’t, of course, even mean to be that. Foremost is the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Various Artists – Parkinsong, Volume One: 38 Songs Of Hope
Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox have given Parkinson’s disease a much more public face. But for many people, the face of Parkinson’s disease is someone called Grandpa or Aunt Sharon or, in the case of Selma Litowitz, Mom. The three children of Litowitz, a retired high school English teacher from Lawrence, New Jersey, who [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
History, as the saying goes, is written by the victors. And then rewritten by each successive generation as re-examined through the lens of its particular time, that distance serving to clarify and obscure all at once. Woody Guthrie made up his own history and published it as Bound For Glory, but didn’t live to see [...]
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