Blue Shadows reissue

Wrote up something about this week's reissue of the Blue Shadows' terrific 1993 album On The Floor Of Heaven for John Marks on the Purple State Of Mind site, here:

http://john.purplestateofmind.com/?p=2074

....And, just to give an instant look at one of the best songs on the record, here ya go:

Alejandro Escovedo and Buddy Miller in Richmond

You may recall that back in the print days of No Depression, we named Alejandro Escovedo our "artist of the decade" for the 1990s, and gave Buddy Miller the same nod for the 2000s (in our final print issue in 2008). They happened to be playing on the same night last week in Richmond, and I put up a little something on the ND website about it:

http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/dueling-nd-artists-of-the

Blue Rodeo, south of home

My rumination about Blue Rodeo on John Marks' Purple State Of Mind blog:

http://john.purplestateofmind.com/?p=2021