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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South
The Drive-By Truckers established themselves as the fiercest contemporary incarnation of southern rock in 2001 with Southern Rock Opera, a sprawling, 20-song, two-CD opus that weighed in on what they referred to as “the duality of the southern thing.” Last year they followed up with Decoration Day, a step forward in musical sophistication that pointed [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Various Artists – Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo
Before he got sick in 2003, Alejandro Escovedo often lamented in interviews that he couldn’t understand why no one else recorded his songs. The reason was obvious: His sound — a peculiar mélange of punk rock, chamber music and corrida that sounded like a Norteño version of the Velvet Underground — was so original, so [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Uncle Dave Macon – Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
“Now, why can’t their records sound as good as that show?” The question is instantly familiar to fans of every sort of down-home music, from old-timey to acoustic blues to thudding roots-rock — 134 years after the birth of Tennessee’s David Harrison Macon, the “uncle” of country music. Of all the originators of commercial country, [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Retail Chart from Issue #53
1 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope) 2 Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch) 3 Los Lobos, The Ride (Hollywood) 4 Los Lonely Boys, self-titled (Or) 5 Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic) 6 Jay Farrar, Stone, Steel & Bright Lights (Transmit Sound) 7 Patty Griffin, Impossible Dream (ATO) 8 [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Telluride Bluegrass Festival – (Telluride, CO)
“There’s been a lot of talk about political songs and songs that aren’t political,” Steve Earle said into the solitary microphone that he and his Bluegrass Dukes had gathered around on a sunny and breezy Saturday afternoon in Telluride. “But you know what, Pete Seeger said all songs are political because lullabies are political to [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Dave Van Ronk – …And The Tin Pan Bended, And The Story Ended
Perpetually misunderstood, hugely influential, always a mover and shaker behind the scenes, Dave Van Ronk never truly got the recognition he deserved. Van Ronk, who died in February 2002, was a walking repository of folklore, ancient blues and fingerpicking genius whose keen sense of history and marvelously expressive guitar playing were attributes valued by every [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Hello Stranger from Issue #53
We are well aware that few of you come to these pages seeking a dialogue on politics, that we are one of the rare publications fortunate enough to have an audience which holds passionately to diverse views. Even in this, as near to an election special issue as this magazine is ever likely to come, [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Elvis, Dolly, and Dock
It was already at the top end of any even half-considered list of most important television musical broadcasts of the rock ‘n’ roll era. The new “deluxe” 3-DVD release of Elvis Presley’s ’68 Comeback Special from BMG/Graceland can only further the show’s legend, even as it extends its pleasures. If, somewhere out there, someone reading [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Field Reportings from Issue #53
I WANT MY AMERICANA TV: There’s good news and bad news for fans of the Americana music channel on the MUSIC CHOICE cable TV service. At the beginning of July, Music Choice altered its lineup and, citing low Arbitron numbers, eliminated its Americana channel. But the company was inundated with phone calls as well as [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Ray Charles: 1930 to 2004
It’s often said that Ray Charles’ great innovation was to sing the blues with the fevered rhythms and fervent vocals of black gospel music. His fusion of juke joint and church on “Hallelujah, I Love Her So”, “What’d I Say” and his other early hits for Atlantic Records was certainly a primary contribution — perhaps [...]
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