Steve Messick, our man in Delaware, writes:
It’s a belated “Happy Birthday” to John Lyon, better known to the world (though not nearly enough of it) as Southside Johnny; leader of the Asbury Jukes, all around wise-ass, and one of the greatest singers in rock & roll.
In delayed celebration, and before 2006 gets too far behind […]

 
Elvis Presley would have been 72 today. To acknowledge the occasion, I want to add to The Reading List what I believe is one of the finest essays ever written about Presley: Daniel Wolff’s “Elvis in the Dark.”
Wolff is the author of the excellent You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke and of Fourth […]

The new No Depression is out. Besides the magazine’s annual year end poll, this issue includes a cover story on Lucinda Williams by our good friend Bill Friskics-Warren. Also inside: Mark Rubin on the late Freddy Fender, Barry Mazor on Ruth Brown and Ahmet Ertegun, Edd Hurt on soul singer Howard Tate, Linda Ray with […]