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Don Williams - Hank, Tennessee, and Don

Don Williams - Hank, Tennessee, and Don

by Geoffrey Himes ** Editor's Note: Don Williams passed away this week after a short illness. To honor his legacy, we're re-running this article from Issue #19 of the original No Depression print magazine. It originally appeared in 1999. In most cases, when you drain all the

In A Pig's Eye: Trigg County, KY is hell, But it's a ham-lover's heaven

Yes, men and women may come and go, revolutions wrack monarchies, wives and husbands deceive us, taxes mount, the mechanized age buffet our ringing heads, but one of these hams will renew faith in the universe. To our wry and lawless mind such a ham is, during these chancey days,

Townes Van Zandt - A gentleman and a shaman

If you can see through the hangover haze and black-eyed pea tradition that ties one First Day to another, January 1st can serve as a dog-eared page for the book of days that follow. But on New Year's Day 1997, I saw the cycle of mortal life more

Vic Chesnutt - The Salesman And Bernadette

"I just want to be Aaron Neville," deadpanned Vic Chesnutt, the consummate wag, on "Sad Peter Pan", a song from his 1995 album Is the Actor Happy? Here, one suspected, was Chesnutt -- a quirky cracker whose creaky warble is but a chirp compared to Neville&

Bob Dylan - Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert

And He said, "He that dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him, but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! Good were it for that man

Eddy Arnold - The Tennessee Plowboy And His Guitar

Eddy Arnold is the most successful performer ever to appear on the Billboard Top Country Singles chart. His sustained dominance included 43 Top Ten hits from 194551 alone. It is understandable if this comes as a surprise. Prior to the release of this five-CD set, it was impossible to locate

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Self-Titled

Since the folk revival of the 1950s, no two women have exerted as much influence within bluegrass and old-timey circles as Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. As pickers, producers, singers, arrangers, and leaders of their own string band, the duo -- who performed and recorded together from 1962 to 1975