Ebook {Epub PDF} The Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music by Grant Alden

 · In September, the University of Texas Press will publish an anthology, "The Best of No Depression: Writing About American Music." "I've been early on cultural trends by accident a . The Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series) Paperback – 1 Sept. by Grant Alden (Editor), Peter Blackstock (Editor) out of 5 stars 1 rating/5(2). Grant Alden is the author of No Depression ( avg rating, 44 ratings, 0 reviews, published ), The Best of No Depression ( avg rating, 33 ratin /5.

Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock (along with Kyla Fairchild) founded No Depression in in Seattle, Washington, and have been its editors ever since. Excerpts: As it turned out, the angels who interceded to preserve No Depression —responding to the publishers' note in the penultimate March-April edition of our magazine—were mostly. He also wrote American Country: Bluegrass, Honky Tonk and Crossover Sounds (Twenty-First Century Books, ) and pieces of his appear in The City Was Yellow: Chicago Jazz and Improvised Music, , Mike Reed, ed. (, Reed and Jazz Institute of Chicago) and The Best of No Depression, Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, eds. ( Find many great new used options and get the best deals for NO DEPRESSION # NEXT GENERATION (BOOKAZINE (WHATEVER By Grant Alden Peter at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

Since the magazine's founding in , No Depression has reported on and helped define the music that goes by names such as www.doorway.ruy, Americana, and roots music. Though dismissed by the commercial country music establishment as #;music that doesn't sell,#; alternative country has. Table of contents for The Best of No Depression: Preface, by Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock. Los Lobos, by Geoffrey Himes. Alejandro Escovedo, by Peter Blackstock. Jon Dee Graham, by Peter Blackstock. Billy Joe Shaver, by Grant Alden. Ray Wylie Hubbard, by John T. Davis. Flatlanders, by Don McLeese. Ray Price, by David Cantwell. Johnny Gimble, by Bill C. Malone. In , longtime music journalists Peter Blackstock and Grant Alden stumbled their way into running a magazine. Actually, it started off as a 32 page cut and paste newsletter, but when first-issue sales surprisingly topped the entire print-run of 3, copies, the partners found themselves leading a legion of dedicated music fans, all itching to read about this new alt-country phenomenon.