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Peter Blackstock

Luluc: A Life in Many Movements

Luluc: A Life in Many Movements

Preface: Nineteen years ago this month, Grant Alden and I were deep in the midst of creating the debut issue of No Depression magazine, which launched in autumn 1995 in Seattle. Nearly two decades later, our lives are much different. Grant and his wife run a bookstore and coffee shop

Model Rockets

(Editor's note: About a year ago, Model Rockets ringleader John Ramberg dropped me a line to let me know that the band was planning a small-scale reissue of this album, which came out in the fall of 1994. Ramberg had apparently appreciated a review I wrote of

The Weepies - No time to cry

"I don't differentiate all that much between movies, music, TV -- it's like all these companion pieces that go along with your life." --Steve Tannen Deb Talan and Steve Tannen of the Weepies are having a bit of a disagreement. Speaking by phone cross-country

Son Volt - The Search

"We'll know when we get there/If we find mercy," Jay Farrar sings in "The Picture", the second track on The Search, Son Volt's fifth album. If in fact the record's title is a clue as to its journey, that

America - Here & Now

These things tend to be just a bad idea -- bands two or three decades removed from their prime trying to recapture what made them successful back in the day. Often such reunions are not much more than dressed-up moneygrabs, a rehash of moldy oldies augmented by a handful of

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All The Roadrunning

Perhaps the highest compliment that could be bestowed on this record is that if you didn't know about Mark Knopfler's Dire Straits days or Emmylou's Gram Parsons past and subsequent solo flowering, you might well suspect these two have been singing partners for a

Jimmy Webb - The Moon's A Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb In The Seventies

The essence of Jimmy Webb's artistry is exemplified in an unlikely place on this five-disc set, which collects all of his 1970s studio albums plus a 1972 live concert and an assortment of outtakes. It's the last of those outtakes, a duet with Harry Nilsson