Lone Justice - This World Is Not My Home
She wanted to be Patsy Cline and Patti Smith, but by the second and final Lone Justice album, they had turned her into Patty Smyth. She, of course, is Maria McKee; "they" are executives at Geffen Records, producers Jimmy Iovine and Steve Van Zandt, L.A. writers such
Various Artists - Pearls In The Snow: The Songs Of Kinky Friedman
The success of a tribute album rests on three salient points: the artist being toasted, the material being covered, and the talent being assembled. Pearls In The Snow, coming nearly 30 years after Kinky Friedman's debut album was released, succeeds on all counts and in fact is a
Mickey Newbury - The Mickey Newbury Collection
Songwriters held in high esteem by fellow artists while remaining largely unknown to the masses are common in Texas music. From the late, legendary troubadour Townes Van Zandt to wordsmith extraordinaire Butch Hancock to psychedelic prophet Roky Erickson to simpleton-savant Daniel Johnston, the state's songbooks are strewn
Townes Van Zandt - A gentleman and a shaman
If you can see through the hangover haze and black-eyed pea tradition that ties one First Day to another, January 1st can serve as a dog-eared page for the book of days that follow. But on New Year's Day 1997, I saw the cycle of mortal
In A Pig's Eye: Trigg County, KY is hell, But it's a ham-lover's heaven
Yes, men and women may come and go, revolutions wrack monarchies, wives and husbands deceive us, taxes mount, the mechanized age buffet our ringing heads, but one of these hams will renew faith in the universe. To our wry and lawless mind such a ham is, during these chancey days,
Don Williams - Hank, Tennessee, and Don
by Geoffrey Himes
** Editor's Note: Don Williams passed away this week after a short illness. To honor his legacy, we're re-running this article from Issue #19 of the original No Depression print magazine. It originally appeared in 1999.
In most cases, when you drain all