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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Various Artists – Touch My Heart: A Tribute To Johnny Paycheck
The sensibility connections between the subject of this tribute (the late and unforgettable honky-tonker Johnny Paycheck) and the album’s producer (the live and irreplaceable Robbie Fulks) go a long ways toward describing this music and the performers brought together to deliver it with so much audible affection. Both of these guys, you see, love hard [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
We’ll See You in the Folder…
Recently hitting 40 made me realize something tangentially similar to the common realization that I am never going to rock the local club like it’s never been rocked before (I realized that at 30). What crept up on me was this: My brushes with those who actually have rocked the house are most likely over. [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Muddy Waters – Hard Again / I’m Ready / King Bee
The lion in winter. He’s the king of the jungle, and he’s won the title fair and square. He suns himself on the hill and watches his young descendants vying for the spot he’ll soon vacate. But what they don’t know is it won’t be the same spot. It couldn’t be. Muddy Waters made these, [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Retail Chart from Issue #52
1 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop) 2 Norah Jones, Feels Like Home (Blue Note/EMI) 3 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live ’64 Concert At Philharmonic Hall (Sony Legacy) 4 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope) 5 Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Like Bad News (Epic) 6 Bonnie [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Merlefest- Wilkes Community College (Wilkesboro, NC)
It was just before 2pm on Sunday afternoon that a seismic shift very nearly overtook Merlefest in its 17th year. On the far corner of the festival grounds at Wilkes Community College in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, two younger-generation acts were closing their respective sets on stages just couple [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Box Full of Letters from Issue #52
Jeff Kerr: You’ve got mail! I read No Depression #51 while on a five-day trip to NYC. Another brilliant issue of the best music magazine in the world. In New York I was privileged to see and hear Delbert McClinton tear up the B.B. King Bar & Grill, Jim Hall, the elegant jazz guitarist, perform [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Hello Stranger from Issue #52
The connective tissue of each issue tends to reveal itself only when the magazine is nearly done and the meaningful choices have already been made. And so we are somewhat surprised to see the extent to which blues has crept into these pages this time out. But not that surprised. Twenty-seven years ago, when I [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
From Hank Senior to Junior Samples
There’s likely to be only one documentary, ever, that will have access to all of the available film footage of Hank Williams, plus cooperation and touching, revealing commentary from his family, surviving bandmates and associates. The film is Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues, from director Morgan Neville, co-produced with its writer, Colin Escott, Hank’s best [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Field Reportings from Issue #52
CASH FOR CASH: On September 14-15, the New York auction house Sotheby’s will conduct a sale of items belonging to JOHNNY CASH and JUNE CARTER CASH. Over 650 pieces of Cash and Carter’s possessions, including guitars, lyric notebooks, gold albums and clothing, are up for auction. The collection has been valued at around $1.5 million.… [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
The Improbable Rise Of Redneck Rock
Back in 1998, Lyle Lovett recorded Step Inside This House, covering songs by Willis Alan Ramsey, Steven Fromholz, Michael Martin Murphey and other members of the Texas singer-songwriter fraternity. The original 1974 edition of The Improbable Rise Of Redneck Rock is essentially the book version of that album. In fact, Lovett even admits his first [...]
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