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Connie Smith: Too Cool to be Forgotten

By 1979, after slowly weaning herself off the road, Smith quit the business to stay at home with her kids, who now numbered five. Feminists painted her as a reactionary, as a successful woman who had forsaken her career. Looking back now, though, Smith’s decision seems a gutsy one;
No Depression 01 Sep 1998

Steve Earle / Buddy & Julie Miller - The Phoenix (Toronto, Ontario)

This is a live review from a performance on January 27, 1998 As dramatic spectacles go, it would be hard to top the opening moments of Steve Earle's Toronto stop on the El Corazon tour. At 9 p.m. EST, U.S. President Bill Clinton was before Congress,
No Depression 28 Feb 1998
ALBUM REVIEW: Buddy Miller - Poison Love

ALBUM REVIEW: Buddy Miller - Poison Love

Steve Earle calls Buddy Miller's 1995 debut Your Love and Other Lies the country record of the decade, and I believe him. Yet it wasn't until I heard Miller's new album, Poison Love – and specifically, his cover of Otis Redding's 1965 hit
No Depression 31 Aug 1997

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