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Issue #56 March-April 2005
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor
Field Reportings - News
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart
Sittin' & Thinkin' - Essay
Screen Door - Last Page Essay
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature
- Dao Strom - Down by the old mainstream
- Duhks - Old-time's new wave
- Grascals - The sidemen's side project
- Hacienda Brothers - Points for Pennmanship
- Hayes Carll - Everybody's talkin'
- Jake La Botz - Sweet Home Chicago
- Precious Bryant - The blues tells the truth
- Shooter Jennings - Nevermind the O, here's the W
The Long Way Around - Feature
- Crooked Fingers - Dignity in the arts
- Hubert Sumlin - Who's gonna share them shoes?
- Jimmy Lafave - Hard-core troubadour
- John Doe - Wolf at the door
- Josh Rouse - Leaving middle America behind
- Kathleen Edwards - Basic instincts
- Los Super Seven - Border radio
- Nanci Griffith - If there's no hope at the end of it, there's no point in writing it
- Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Gathering stones together
- Vic Chesnutt - The life you save may be your own
Miked - Live Reviews
- Caitlin Cary / Kevn Kinney / Jason Isbell - Pour House (Raleigh, NC)
- Guided By Voices - Metro (Chicago, IL)
- Kristin Hersh / Ben Weaver - Schubas (Chicago, IL)
- Mark Olson (and Friends) - 400 Bar (Minneapolis, MN)
- Mound City Music Festival - Mississippi Nights (St. Louis, MO)
- Patterson Hood - Asheville Pizza & Brewing Company (Asheville, NC)
- Ray LaMontagne - Iron Horse (Northampton, MA)
- Windblown - Crighton Theater (Conroe, TX)
Waxed - Record Review
- Al Green - Everything's OK
- Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
- Ani Difranco - Knuckle Down
- Bellwether - Seven And Six / Missing Numbers - Self-Titled
- Ben Lee - Awake Is The New Sleep
- Blind Boys Of Alabama - Atom Bomb
- Bluerunners - Honey Slides
- Bow Thayer - The Driftwood Periodicals, Volume 1
- Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning / Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
- Buck 65 - This Right Here Is Buck 65
- Chris Stamey Experience - A Question Of Temperature
- Clem Snide - End Of Love
- Country Soul Revue - Testifying
- Dallas Wayne - I'm Your Biggest Fan
- Dan Israel - Time I Get Home
- Deana Carter - The Story Of My Life
- Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper
- Dusty 45’s - Devil Takes His Turn / Cast Iron Filter - Falls Of Rough
- Dwight Twilley - 47 Moons
- Elizabeth McQueen & The Firebrands - Happy Doing What We're Doing
- Frames - Burn The Maps
- Fred Eaglesmith - Dusty
- Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer
- Hothouse Flowers - Into Your Heart
- Innocence Mission - Now The Day Is Over
- Jack Logan - Nature's Assembly Line
- James King - The Bluegrass Storyteller
- Jess Klein - Strawberry Lover
- Jessi Alexander - Honeysuckle Sweet
- Joe West - South Dakota Hairdo
- John Hammond - In Your Arms Again
- John Kruth - Songs From The Windy Attic
- Johnny Dowd - Cemetery Shoes
- Kelly Joe Phelps - Tap The Red Cane Whirlwind
- Kimberley Rew - Essex Hideaway
- Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
- Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
- Larry Sparks - 40
- Lee Ann Womack - There's More Where That Came From
- M. Ward - Transistor Radio
- Maia Sharp - Fine Upstanding Citizen
- Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison
- Mark Geary - Ghosts
- Merle Haggard - Unforgettable
- Paul Brady - Say What You Feel
- Peter Elkas - Party Of One
- Quebe Sisters - Texas Fiddlers
- Queen Esther - Talkin' Fishbowl Blues
- Randy Kohrs - I’m Torn
- Ray Wylie Hubbard - Delirium Tremoloes
- Reckless Kelly - Wicked Twisted Road
- Redbird - Self-Titled
- Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys - Empty House
- Rosco Gordon - No Dark in America
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-kings - Naturally
- Shivaree - Who's Got Trouble
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake The Sheets
- Tom Russell - Hotwalker
- Various Artists - A Songwriter's Tribute To George Strait
- Various Artists - Sunday Nights: The Songs Of Junior Kimbrough
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review
- Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Featuring Jimmy Martin - The King And The Father
- Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - Bridge Over Troubled Water / Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials
- Chet Atkins - Mr. Guitar: The Complete Recordings, 1955-1960
- James Brown - Soul On Top
- Jimmy Webb - The Moon's A Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb In The Seventies
- Josh White - The Elektra Years
- Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man: The Complete Chess Masters Volume 2, 1952-1958
- Stonewall Jackson - Waterloo
- Various Artists - Doctors, Professors, Kings And Queens: The Big Ol' Box Of New Orleans
- Various Artists - The Best Of King And Starday Bluegrass