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Field Reportings - News from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Field Reportings from Issue #63
HER AIM IS TRUE: To date, singer ALLISON MOORER has made art in spite of her difficult background, but her next record, Getting Somewhere, promises to draw on that troubled past. The album, due June 13 on Sugar Hill, addresses the death of her parents in a murder-suicide when she was 14. The track “How [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Retail Chart from Issue #63
1 Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador) 2 Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love) 3 Rosanne Cash, Black Cadillac (Capitol) 4 Neil Young, Prairie Wind (Reprise) 5 Ryan Adams, 29 (Lost Highway) 6 K.T. Tunstall, Eye To The Telescope (Virgin) 7 Beth Orton, Comfort Of Strangers (Astralwerks) 8 My Morning Jacket, [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Box Full of Letters from Issue #63
Many happy referrals: One new reader at a time I learned about No Depression magazine in a rather strange sort of way. I have been a subscriber to Bluegrass Unlimited ever since it began in the 1960s. A couple of years ago more or less, one of the writers named Murphy Henry had an article [...]
Sittin' & Thinkin' - Essay from Issue #63 May-June 2006
It Don’t Mean a Thing
On our jazz show on WNUR, the Northwestern University station, my co-host John Corbett and I wheel happily among styles, forms and accents: swing, bop, free, harmolodic; Dutch, German, English, Ethiopian; honkin’ saxes, laptop squiggles, transportable schlock. Never mind “April In Paris” — have you heard Count Basie do James Bond? And then there is [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Hello Stranger from Issue #63
Our history with Alejandro Escovedo goes back a fair ways, as those of you who have been with us since the early days likely remember. Grant wrote a feature story about him in our second issue back in early 1996, when his Rykodisc album came out. After that record deal crashed and Escovedo ended up [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Opry In Nyc, Acl At Home
Maybe New York and Nashville simply are doomed never to really see and hear each other without distortion, for all of the pre-set images and ideas each has of the other standing stubbornly in the way. New case in point: Grand Ole Opry At Carnegie Hall (RCA/Sony BMG), the just-released DVD version of the cablecast [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Cindy Walker: 1917 to 2006
Country music had never seen the likes of Cindy Walker before, and doubtless never will again. One of just four non-performing songwriters in the Country Music Hall of Fame — the others being Harlan Howard and Boudleaux & Felice Bryant — Walker died March 23 in Mexia, Texas, at age 88. Best known for “You [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Ain’t Got No Cigarettes: Memories Of Music Legend Roger Miller
Every serious Roger Miller fan will want to read this book, and every one of them will be frustrated. Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is only what its subtitle says: a series of interview transcriptions done by Lyle Style who, after discovering Roger Miller at the late date of 1998, fell in love with the man’s [...]
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