Notes from ND Now that it's getting cold and blustery most places, heading into winter, it's a great time to disappear inside and get some reading done. Whether it's a great artist bio or memoir you like, or maybe a more heady history of roots music...what are your favorite books about Americana/indie/alt/country music? Share your recommendations in the forum, or just keep reading for some highlights from the past week. |
| Rambling with the Deadstring Brothers by Neil Ferguson  Detroit-raised and Nashville-based band the Deadstring Brothers released one of the finest records of this year, and for the last 10 months the band has been perpetually on the road. Kurt Marschke and his band the Deadstring Brothers are resting outside a small Nebraska town that can best be described as the middle of nowhere. Cell phone reception is spotty but we agree to try and make it work. Taking gigs in tiny towns on the outskirts of America wouldn't even be conceivable for most other bands, but for the Deadstring Brothers these gigs are a daily... More |
| Sunshine Daydream - Restoring Faith in The Dead by Doug Heselgrave The Grateful Dead finally release their 'greatest concert' as a lavish 3 CD/DVD box set. It's not always easy loving the Grateful Dead. Anyone who's a Deadhead already knows how much abuse such an affection can entail and has probably heard lots of versions of the joke about the fan who goes to a Grateful Dead concert without being stoned... More |
| The Wood Brothers - "The Muse" by Julie Wenger Watson The Wood Brothers' Smoke Ring Halo (2011) is one of the best albums I've heard in a long time, so it was with some apprehension that I slid the band's new CD into my player. Could anything really compare to that superlative effort? If the band is The Wood Brothers and the album isThe Muse, the answer is a resounding YES! With ten original... More |
| LeE HARVeY OsMOND Venue (Vanouver, BC - Oct. 25, 2013) by Skot Nelson Tom Wilson's LeE HARVeY OsMOND project received no shortage of praise last year. Doug Heselgrave wrote about The Folk Sinner here last year. After touring pretty steadily since it's release, Wilson finally brought the band and the album to Vancouver's Venue. Wilson was in a fine mood at the start of the show, joking that "It's the... More |
|  The Gourds - Appetite for Agglomeration
by Ed Ward Some things are not accidents. I had agreed to write a story on the Gourds for this magazine, and so I was in the process of gathering up some of the stuff I didn't have, which included their previous album and soundtracks for two films by a guy named Mike Woolf, Growin' A Beard and Something's Brewin' In Shiner. Both were available on DVD, and the band's helpful management found copies of these, put them in a padded bag, and sent them off to me. When I opened the bag, there were the discs, a copy of the Gourds' previous album Cow Fish Fowl Or Pig, and...something stuck way down in the bag. I reached in and... More |
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| | A Few About Lou (Reed) by Easy Ed It started out as a regular Sunday, and after spending a half-hour or so going through the news and some tunes and watching the latest videos posted on the No Dep site, I decided to make it a John Prine day. It's nice to give Kyla and Kim time off from the Facebook posts one day a week, but I've learned that the masses can only take so much of ... More |
Hunting Americana with the Lonesome Southern Comfort Company by musicJJMG A few weeks ago I posted about a guy called Teitur and how great it was to find Americana being sung in The Faroe Islands. Now comes a new album from The Lonesome Southern Comfort Company, a band that hails from Switzerland, somewhere between Lugano and Zürich. The band's latest offering is "The Big... More |
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