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Rolling Stone got nothing on us
I received a copy of music magazine Rolling Stone in the mail the other day.
I haven’t subscribed in a couple of years, and I’m not interested enough in renewing it to find out (a) why I was suddenly receiving a free copy or (b) why it seems to have shrank (shrunk?) in size. I’m assuming it’s a promotional being mailed out to former subscribers in an effort to entice them back into the fold. Times are hard in the ol’ print media world, as we can attest to personally over here at the Times … but I digress.
I found myself flipping through and enjoying a celebratory moment at how cutting-edge Weekend has been over the past several years in covering music. Seriously. Allow me to share some highlights as I flip through issue 1073, dated March 5, 2009, of Rolling Stone.
On the cover: Taylor Swift. Lovely young lady and a genuine country talent. We wrote about her back in 2007, before she was A-list, back when she was opening for George Strait and Ronnie Millsap. These days, I think those two would probably open up for her.
Page 18: A piece on Alison Krauss and Robert Plant cleaning up at the Grammys for their album “Raising Sand.” We interviewed T-Bone Burnett, the producer and mastermind behind that record, when the tour came through town last year.
Page 18: “The Hot List” selects “The Mountain,” the latest album by the Heartless Bastards, as one of its choice picks of the month. We interviewed front woman Erika Wennerstrom when the band came through town back in 2007. (And I wholeheartedly recommend “The Mountain,” by the way. It’s a more introspective album than the band’s previous two but so, so good.)
Page 52: A pictorial of life on the homefront for guitarist Derek Trucks and his wife, singer-songwriter Susan Tedeschi. We’ve interviewed Derek a number of times, including back in 2006, when he was working out touring as a guitarist for both Eric Clapton and the Allman Brothers Band.
Page 78: Review of “Grand,” the new album by Matt and Kim. We profiled the indie dance-pop duo just this week, making it the second time we’ve interviewed them. (The first was back in 2007.)
So … there. We rock.