Name: The Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music
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ISBN: 9780292709898

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Preface Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock
Not Just Another Band from East L.A.: Los Lobos Geoffrey Himes
The True Believer: Alejandro Escovedo Peter Blackstock
Ain't Life Grand: Jon Dee Graham Peter Blackstock
When the Fallen Angels Fly: Billy Joe Shaver Grant Alden
Outlaw Blues: Ray Wylie Hubbard John T. Davis
One Road More: The Flatlanders Don McLeese
Burning Memories: Ray Price David Cantwell
The Music Came Up from His Soul: Johnny Gimble Bill C. Malone
The Man in Black and White and Every Shade in Between: Johnny Cash Bill Friskics-Warren
The Long Journey Home: Rosanne Cash Lloyd Sachs
Happy Woman Blues: Lucinda Williams Silas House
Hearts on Fire: Buddy and Julie Miller Bill Friskics-Warren
Sweet Emotion: Kasey Chambers Geoffrey Himes
Make Me Wanna Holler: Loretta Lynn Barry Mazor
Down from the Mountain: Patty Loveless Bill Friskics-Warren
A Simple Path: Kieran Kane Peter Cooper
Horse of a Different Color: Paul Burch Jim Ridley
Coal Miner's Sister: Hazel Dickens Bill Friskics-Warren
Quicksilver Girl: Gillian Welch Grant Alden
Go Your Own Way: Ryan Adams David Menconi
World Wide Open: Jay Farrar Peter Blackstock
Outside the Wall: The Jayhawks Erik Flannigan
In through the Out Door: Wilco Paul Cantin
Rocking Tall: The Drive-By Truckers Grant Alden
A Life of Quiet Inspiration: Iron & Wine William Bowers
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Since the magazine's founding in 1995, No Depression has reported on and helped define the music that goes by names such as alt.country, Americana, and roots music. Though dismissed by the commercial country music establishment as "music that doesn't sell," alternative country has attracted thousands of listeners who long for the authenticity and rich complexity that come from its potent blend of country and rock 'n' roll and any number of related musical genres and subgenres.

To celebrate No Depression's tenth anniversary and spotlight some of the most important artists and trends in alt.country music, editors Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock have compiled this anthology of twenty-five of the magazine's best and most representative feature articles. Their subjects range from venerated country artists such as Johnny Cash and Ray Price to contemporary songwriters such as Lucinda Williams and Buddy and Julie Miller to the post-punk country-influenced bands Wilco and the Drive-By Truckers. All of the articles included here illustrate No Depression's commitment to music writing that puts the artist front-and-center and covers his or her career in sufficient depth to be definitive. Alden and Blackstock have also written a preface to this volume in which they discuss the alt.country phenomenon and the history and editorial philosophy that have made No Depression the bible for everyone seeking genuine American roots music.

ISBN: 9780292709898 (0292709897)

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Praise for No Depression: No Depression "is in many ways the prototypical peer-group publication that comes along once in a generation and attracts and defines its collective audience of readers, in much the same way that the young rock magazines Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, and Creem did decades ago." Chet Flippo, Billboard "For those who crave that tasty trail mix of traditional country, punk, folk, and rock that goes under the moniker alt country or Americana, there is no finer or more thorough source for news, reviews, and profiles [than No Depression]. We adore the long chewy portraits of the genre's big names, and the dispatches from concertland." Chicago Tribune "The bible for [alternative country] listeners." U.S. News & World Report "The performers chronicled here range from the near-mainstream ... to the more obscure ... there are some memorable moments

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