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Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Whiskeytown – Strangers Almanac (Deluxe Edition)
In 1997, the most surprising thing about Whiskeytown’s major-label debut was how quiet it was. The big-league polish, that much was expected — but not its overall subdued tone. If Whiskeytown’s mythically chaotic live shows back then evoked a liquor-driven bender, Strangers Almanac was the soundtrack to the early-morning hours after the peak but before [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Cowboy Junkies / Margo Timmins – Massey Hall (Toronto, ON)
Not many of us can claim to have had our lives change in a solitary day as substantially as Cowboy Junkies did some twenty years ago, when they assembled around a single microphone inside Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity. The resulting album, The Trinity Session, launched the careers of siblings Michael, Margo and Peter [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Box Full of Letters from Issue #75
Goin’ where there’s no depression: Thanks, to all of you… I found No Depression magazine several years ago. It was a magazine that was written for me. Every two months I would look forward with great anticipation to the next issue. My favorite artists like Solomon Burke, Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Buddy Miller, Johnny [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Hello Stranger from Issue #75
We have heard from our readers and subscribers all over the world, and one thing is clear: You want to keep the spirit and community of No Depression alive. So do we. To that end, while the reality remains that this is the end of ND as we know it, we have some promising news [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Every Picture’s Told A Story
This column has always been called “Film At 11,” in part for its location here in the “back of the book.” This last edition in print feels more like “Film at Five Before Midnight.” It has been a privilege to get to use this space regularly to address a topic that never stops intriguing me, [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Field Reportings from Issue #75
FLATT’S TOP GUITAR: Husband-and-wife country greats Marty Stuart and Connie Smith were joined by Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Eddie Stubbs and Harry Stinson in mid-February to help welcome Lester Flatt’s historic Martin guitar into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. Stuart and Smith, longtime country music artifact collectors, [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation In American Popular Culture/Cross The Water Blues: African American Music In Europe/I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters And Their Craft
One thing I’ll always admire Boy George for was his statement that he hated white people. True, it was just aimed to shock tabloid readers, but his explanation was that white was the absence of color, and without color, life was dull. Of course, he himself was Caucasian and British, but there’s no denying that [...]
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