When Lemmy Met Wanda Jackson
The last time I saw Lemmy Kilmister, we were sitting in a small room just off the side of the stage at Amoeba Records on Sunset Boulevard. He was holding a bottle of Jack Daniels with one hand while a too-young blonde, who was trying awfully hard to look older,
Your Top 50 Albums of 2015
Here we are at the end of another year, and it was quite a year in roots music.
Here at No Depression, we returned to the printed page with the first of many magazines to come. (I'm currently in the baby stages of pulling together the Spring 2016
Take the Leap with Shane Smith & The Saints on 'Geronimo'
Quickly garnering a following for their well-crafted songs and exuberant live shows, Shane Smith & The Saints released their sophomore album, Geronimo, on September 11th. Self-Produced and recorded in Austin, Dallas and Nashville, the collection consists of fifteen detailed story songs vividly brought to life by Smith (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Webb Wilder: "Work Hard, Rock Hard, Eat Hard, Sleep Hard, Grow Big, Wear Glasses"
There were many reasons for the six-year gap between Webb Wilder’s new album, Mississippi Moderne, and 2009’s More Like Me, but the years that passed may have been the glue that solidified the most recent release on Landslide Records.
“The first studio we began work in burned!” Wilder
John Hardy - The Genesis of a Song
Special to the Wheeling Daily Register, Jan. 20, 1894:
WILD E, W. Va., January 19. - John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p.m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death. His neck was broken and he died in 17 1/2 minutes.
The Black Lillies' "Hard to Please"
Cruz Contreras had just written “Hard to Please,” the song that would eventually become the title track for the Black Lillies’ fourth studio album, when he asked his son, Cash, to give it a listen.
“I had originally written it on guitar with this sort of Bob Dylan folk approach,