CMT Blog: Archive

Congratulations to NoDepression.com, which launched its very attractive Web site this week. Lucinda Williams‘ face was there to greet me on my first visit - not exactly smiling, but you know … I liked the magazine, even if sometimes I thought it was a bit too self-indulgent. However, now that so much music writing is on the Web, reporters are almost expected to put their own personal experiences in the articles, and to that end, No Depression has always drawn intriguing parallels between the music and how it fits into the lives of their scribes. One of the magazine’s co-founders, Grant Alden, wrote a very nice piece on Chris Knight’s catalog, which will please longtime admirers of both the songwriter and the magazine. Plus, when you’re already in front of a computer, it’s so much easier to find out what those obscure bands actually sound like. So here’s to more online coverage of alt-country, whatever that is.