CD Review - Turnpike Troubadours "Goodbye Normal Street"
As readers may gather from previous reviews, I have a conflicted relationship with country music. I love the guitar-based sound, two-step rhythms, and well-worn themes of heartbreak and hard-living. That said, I have a really hard time with what contemporary country music has become – a slickly
Singer/Songwriter Megan Reilly: Music and Motherhood
“I know when I’m writing something and I just get this feeling that comes over me,” singer/songwriter Megan Reilly explains. “And that’s really spiritual and powerful.
“But it doesn’t always come,” she says in the next breath, “and that’s frustrating.”
The Memphis native is no
Dukes Of September (Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen), Toronto review (08/12/12)
The Dukes Of September's second of two Canadian whistlestops blew through the Big Smoke last night without too many airs, nor fanfare, about it. Toronto is a musical town, increasingly asserting itself as one of the major cosmopolitan cultural centres of North America. You can't see
Jerry Garcia And The Pedal Steel Guitar
Editor's Note: This article was published by an author only known as "crusadercob" on No Depression in 2012 during a time when we allowed user generated blog posts. While No Depression no longer allows user generated blog posts, we are keeping this post live due to
Shaver and His Maker: From Hell-bound Honky Tonk Hero to Holy Roller
Sometime in 1946 when legendary singer-songwriter, Billy Joe Shaver, was a child, he crawled out of the window of his grandmother’s house and followed the railroad tracks to downtown Corsicana, Texas. Homer & Jethro were playing a concert at the Wonder Bread Factory. Shaver made his way through
Inside the Songs: Creative Writing with Jeffrey Martin
As a music writer, I get a fair amount of album submissions from hopeful musicians. I listen to them all, or as many as I can, but honestly these days most of my musical finds come from my own research or from friends. That said, every now and then and