"All music is folk music" Miles Davis
I was a long time subscriber to No Depression who is still new to this online posting of opinions and verbal expositions.
I missed the ND readers poll and was disappointed because every year I do a mix cd of my favorite music of the year. Actually it is a
Forgotten series: Lucinda Williams - Essence
by Nick DeRiso
Lucinda Williams brings a brave, riveting vulnerability to Essence -- and, for me, it's her masterpiece. Yet you are more apt to find it in the cutout bin at a big-box department store than at the top of most people's desert-island lists.
Album Review: Feufollet's "En Couleurs"
Feufollet. En Couleurs.
2010. Feufollet Records.
I keep hearing that Feufollet are an “indie” Cajun band, and while it’s true that they do have a couple glockenspiel solos (no ironic beards though!) on their new album, I still think it’s a pretty different sound from most of the
Ray Price's "Night Life": An appreciation
Every once in a while, it is necessary to obsess about a song. And so I have come here to confess that Ray Price's 1963 recording of "Night Life" is so extraordinary as to be out of time, a singular event, a startling sound across the
Former Bonepony guitarist Bryan Ward returns in new country-funk act Thompson Ward
Guitarist Bryan Ward is no one-trick pony. Now the country-funk riffmeister and other half of the Mississippi duo Thompson Ward (http://www.thompsonward.com), Ward was once a Bonepony, though. Formed in Baltimore, Maryland in the late ‘80s, Bonepony grabbed their mandolins and fiddles and signed with Capitol
When Tanya won't be good no more - moving on with Frazey Ford
Obadiah
Review by Douglas Heselgrave
Oh, those early years of the twenty first century when Alt-country songs and the women who sang them stole our hearts! There was such a wealth of hurting progressive country tunes coming out around a decade ago that it was often easy to overlook