No Depression magazine, which has been a beacon of light to all who follow and participate in what could be called alt-country or as Page would put it, American mongrel music, has announced its next issue will be its last. A victim of record labels' shrinking ad budgets, the publishers who have never been in it for the money in the first place are having to face the changing music industry realities and shut it down. They promise a continued Web presence, but it's not the same as having a brand new issue, full of familiar and fresh new faces as well, arrive in the mail every couple of months. You might want to order that last edition on their Website and maybe listen to a recent NPR interview with the founders. A lamentable sign of the times.
Hope to see a bunch of you tonight at AC&T for another snapshot of the ever-evolving Old School Freight Train. We haven't missed many of the band's semi-regular "homecoming" visits and this one will be especially poignant for D & me as daughter Em, who's been with us for just about every one, will be making her last trip south from Fredericksburg to meet us, as Mary Wash commencement is coming in May. Time is a runaway freight train...
Will we ever have a real snow again? Or frozen ponds to skate on? It seems winters in this part of the world are now only frosty memories...TT
Hope to see a bunch of you tonight at AC&T for another snapshot of the ever-evolving Old School Freight Train. We haven't missed many of the band's semi-regular "homecoming" visits and this one will be especially poignant for D & me as daughter Em, who's been with us for just about every one, will be making her last trip south from Fredericksburg to meet us, as Mary Wash commencement is coming in May. Time is a runaway freight train...
Will we ever have a real snow again? Or frozen ponds to skate on? It seems winters in this part of the world are now only frosty memories...TT
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