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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Merle Haggard – Strangers / Swinging Doors And The Bottle Let Me Down / I’m a Lonesome Fugitive / Branded Man / Mama Tried/ Pride in What I Am / Sing Me Back Home / The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde / Hag / Someday We’ll Look Back
It would be more than a little foolish to attempt a nutshell summation of a body of work as knotty and varied as Merle Haggard’s. But why let that stop us? In “Too Many Bridges To Cross Over”, the closing track to his much-lauded album Mama Tried, Haggard advises the woman he’s with not to [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Retail Chart from Issue #62
1 Wilco, Kicking Television: Live In Chicago (Nonesuch)
2 My Morning Jacket, Z (ATO)
3 Neil Young, Prairie Wind (Reprise)
4 Johnny Cash, The Legend Of (Hip-O)
5 Ryan Adams, 2…
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Arlo Guthrie & Friends – Lincoln Cultural Center (Kankakee, IL)
It could be no more amusing or surreal: Snow falling, indoors, onto the stage of a high school auditorium in small-town Illinois, making a Neville brother, exiled from New Orleans, flick flakes from his shoulder while singing the praises of the Mardi Gras Indians. Funk power and Northern Illinois — on the coldest day of [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Box Full of Letters from Issue #62
It’s about the music: And, “It’s about finding the answer” I wanted to voice my appreciation for your words in the January-February 2006 issue of your fantastic publication. I’ve not been subscribing to your magazine for long, arriving at your magazine after a long search through various other publications that always ended up disappointing me [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Hello Stranger from Issue #62
I never imagined, when I spent a brief stretch fifteen years ago doing some volunteer work at PopLlama Records shortly after I’d moved to Seattle (the first time), that one day I’d be doing some volunteer work taking care of actual llamas (shortly after moving to Seattle the second time). In truth, it’s actually two [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Townes, punk, and the art of loss
Margaret Brown’s first film, Be Here To Love Me (Palm), is a flowing, lyrical, often revealing and complexly saddening exploration of the life of Townes Van Zandt, a strong cinematic experience that’s bound to last, and welcome as such in its new release in extended DVD form. Van Zandt’s music will be more familiar to [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Field Reportings from Issue #62
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’: Showing no signs of slowing down, the DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS release their fourth album in the past five years on April 25 when New West Records issues A Blessing And A Curse, the Athens, Georgia, band’s seventh disc overall. The album, produced by David Barbe and mixed by John Agnello, once again splits [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Wilson Pickett: 1941 to 2006
Considering his nickname, “Wicked Pickett,” some might have expected soul giant Wilson Pickett to go out in a blaze of infamy. But those who witnessed his frenetic live performances were probably less surprised to learn he passed of a heart attack. The only shock to the faithful was that he met his end not onstage, [...]
Sittin' & Thinkin' - Essay from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Country & the pop narcotic
In its dirty little heart, pop music is cannibalistic and no respecter of tradition. But country music exists in a world where the relationships — between rural and urban, old and new south — have become scrambled, hard to read. And if country embodies and expresses these problematic relationships, it might do so in a [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Which Side Are You On? An Inside History Of The Folk Music Revival In America
Except for those rare out-of-the-way primitive societies untouched by current events, everyone’s life is different after a world war, usually for the worse. Technologies which would ordinarily (that is, in peacetime) take decades to develop through the organic and creative process of human striving now come bursting forth with little regard for their ultimate effect [...]
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