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Tribute To Steve Goodman - Medinah Temple (Chicago, IL)

By today's standards, celebrating 40 years of anything is a significant milestone deserving of a significant celebration. So Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music celebrated its 40th anniversary and its plan to move to a larger, more modern facility with a benefit concert honoring the

Tonebenders - Bent into shape

Usually, detailing a band's pedigree gives you a rough idea of what the group might sound like. But sometimes, all it does is confuse the issue. Consider the Tonebenders, who have personnel links to many of the A-list bands from the North Carolina country-rock crowd. The horn section

Willie P. Bennett - Squirrel of the Rodeo

"Oh man, it's amazing, it's opened up new neural pathways in my brain!" That's what Willie P. Bennett had to say about Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, the tribute band that had just released a CD titled High Or Hurtin', culled

Robert Palmer: 1945 to 1997

Editor's note: Upon hearing of the death on Nov. 20 of musician, producer and journalist Robert Palmer, we passed along the sad news to Ed Ward, who just a few days earlier had asked that his paycheck for the article he wrote in ND #12 be sent to

Drive-By Truckers - "Bulldozers And Dirt" / "Nine Bullets"

Remember the scene in Diner when the characters played by Daniel Stern and Kevin Bacon disagree about whether the A-side of a Ritchie Valens single was "La Bamba" or "Donna"? A similar debate, albeit a noncinematic and less historically significant one, could take place over this

Harvester - Camper Van Landingham

Harvester doesn't have as much standard Americana in their sound as their name might imply. While perhaps the best thing about their second record is its broad reach, most of it falls somewhere into the alternative-rock heap -- melodic, noisy guitar songs intelligently put together. This disc was

Martin Simpson - Cool And Unusual

Martin Simpson's recordings are a utopia of the acoustic guitar. Across them coalesce British, Irish, Scottish, Indian, Mississippi Deltan, Ozarkian, gypsy and European character alike. But Simpson's signature glows through: the trilling and surging dynamics, that raw thunk of thumb punctuating a phrase. His records have