Album Review: Shawn Colvin--Live
Shawn Colvin—Live—Nonesuch—2009
Shawn Colvin is complicated. She's moody, strong, impulsive, courageous, paranoid, self-possessed, depressed. And that's all just in the first song. This new live solo-acoustic recording opens with “Polaroids,” the track that also led off Fat City, her 1992 sophomore
Album Review: The Bottle Rockets--Lean Forward
The Bottle Rockets—Lean Forward—Bloodshot—2009
The Bottle Rockets, the pride of Festus, Missouri, are back with Lean Forward, out August 11th, their first album since 2006's Zoysia, and their third album on the Bloodshot label. The album also marks the return of producer Eric “Roscoe” Ambel,
My back-roads affair with the Frizzell brothers
The truth of my headline is this: Neither my wife, nor my daughter, can stand the sound of twang. Not a bit, except Maggie can maybe tolerate Johnny Cash every once in a while and Susan can listen to the Dixie Chicks when not provoked. And since I no longer
Album Review: Bryan Sutton--Almost Live
Bryan Sutton (and Friends)—Almost Live—Sugar Hill—2009
Bluegrass musicians and aficionados love to designate the pantheon of the world's finest pickers, those uncontested champs of their instruments, masters like Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, and Jerry Douglas. In the Tellurides and Merlefests of the last five years,
The Making of the Archives
After well over a year of dreaming, planning, and plain old hard work, the archive of No Depression's 75 print issues finally launched today.
It has been a long daunting undertaking and had I known what I was getting into at the time I'm not sure
Album cover artist and designer Tom Wilkes dead at 69
Artist/designer Tom Wilkes died unexpectedly last Sunday, June 28, at the age of 69 in his home in Pioneertown, California. He won a Grammy Award in 1974 for Best Recording Package for the Who's "Tommy," as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Choir. He