No Depression #76: Surveying the Past, Present, and Future by Grant Alden, Peter Blackstock
By Grant Alden, Peter Blackstock
From its debut in 1995 as a 32-page quarterly journal to its zenith ten years later as a 180-page bimonthly, No melancholy journal grew from humble beginnings. It turned the main popular book overlaying American roots tune, ranging from the purpose the place kingdom mixed with rock 'n' roll and tracing the typical bonds via genres that come with bluegrass, people, blues, gospel, soul, jazz, indie, Cajun, conjunto, and past. alongside the best way, No melancholy grew to become said as one of many best song magazines ever released, usually in comparison to the Nineteen Sixties origins of Rolling Stone or the Seventies heyday of Creem, receiving awards from the Utne Reader, ASCAP, and the foreign kingdom song convention, and pointed out by way of the Chicago Tribune in 2004 as one of many nation's best 20 magazines in any class. In early 2008, No melancholy introduced that its May-June factor, ND #75, will be its finale as a bimonthly journal. To push back the disappearance of No melancholy in print, the collage of Texas Press stepped into the vacuum, arranging for a brand new semiannual ND ''bookazine'' to be released each one fall and spring. the 1st installment--to be known as No melancholy #76, reflecting continuity with the magazine's history--will be issued this autumn and may keep it up the publication's culture of remarkable long-form writing approximately significant and influential American roots musicians, in addition to caliber pictures and different parts all offered through the picture layout imprint of ND paintings director supply Alden. This book/magazine hybrid is largely groundbreaking territory in either one of these publishing worlds. Sharing the editorial imaginative and prescient for the bookazine might be Alden and Peter Blackstock, co-founders of No melancholy and its co-editors from the start. a few of the senior editors and contributing editors who assisted in shaping the voice and tone of the journal will give a contribution to the bookazine, with a purpose to function totally new content material in each factor: in contrast to ND's earlier undertaking with UT Press (2005's the simplest Of No melancholy: Writing approximately American Music), those are not anthologies of formerly released works, yet quite completely clean creations each six months. when you enjoyed No melancholy journal, this can be the place it lives on, in print.
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Bulat’s touring lineup frequently features such uncommon components as ukulele and viola in addition to more typical instruments such as piano and drums. Her sound is a far cry from standard two-guitars- NO DEPRESSION #76 page 33 bass-drums fare, and all the more intriguing for that. “Those are the instruments I like and wanted — not necessarily to be different from anybody,” she explains. “A lot of the music that I listen to sometimes will be just a guitar and a banjo and a ukulele and voices or something.
Far from being the lonely torchbearers of tradition, as were the blues fanatics of 40 years ago, the Perrys see their mission — if they think in those terms — as simply being good entertainers. Ryan sounds proud when he tells me how he overcame his stage fright (“I even crack a couple of jokes onstage,” he says), and Tricia seems concerned with balancing the demands of the road with making sure her kids grow up right. “I still manage them as children and make sure they do what they’re supposed to do and get what they need for it,” she says.
And they surely do something different for a bluegrass band. As a formal unit, the Stringdusters arrived on the scene not all that long ago. The founding members bowed out of sideman gigs with the likes of Ronnie Bowman (Hall, Cobb and Garrett all played in Bowman’s band), Drew Emmitt (Pandolfi) and Dolly Parton (another gig of Hall’s) to launch the band full-time in 2005. D. Crowe’s Lefty’s Old Guitar for IBMA Album of the Year, no small feat for a debut. Their second album came out this past June.