On the cover: Buddy & Julie Miller. Illustration by Jim Herrington. Song lyric from "My Love Will Follow You" by Buddy & Julie Miller.

FRONT PORCH
Hello Stranger; All The Fixins; Box Full Of Letters; Field Reportings; Farther Along.

A PLACE TO BE
Road trip
Mountain Stage radio show in Charleston, West Virginia.

MIKED
Live reviews
Bean Blossom Festival in Bean Blossom, IN; Flatlanders, Jimmy LaFave in New York City, NY; Mary Janes in Chicago, IL; Scott Miller in Durham, NC; David Olney in Albany, NY; Mark Mulcahy in Dublin, Ireland; Josh Rouse, Aimee Mann in Chicago, IL; Joe Price in Iowa City, IA.

TOWN & COUNTRY
Brief regional features
Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire (Chicago, IL); Jim Stringer & the Austin Music Band (Austin, TX); Ray Mason (Northampton, MA); Bob Childers (Stillwater, OK); Rosavelt (Columbus, OH); Nadine (St. Louis, MO); Danielle Howle (Columbia, SC); Souvenirs (Seattle, WA).

THE LONG CUT
Extended features
Lori Carson (by Peter Blackstock)
Continental Drifters (by Neal Weiss)
Doyle Lawson (by Paul Birch)
Jim Lauderdale (by Peter Cooper)
Buddy & Julie Miller (by Bill Friskics-Warren)
David Ball (by Geoffrey Himes)
George Jones (by David Cantwell)

NOT FADE AWAY
Reissues
Joe South; Del-Lords; Willis Alan Ramsey; Charlie Walker; Bob Dylan; Greg Brown; Eric Andersen; Jim Reeves; Matraca Berg; Jerry Jeff Walker; Percy Sledge; Carl Mann.

WAXED
Record reviews
Freakwater; Bottle Rockets; Johnny Dowd; Dixie Chicks; Creek Dippers; Asleep At The Wheel; DiFranco/Phillips; Alison Krauss; Robbie Fulks; R.B. Morris; Nanci Griffith; Mark Lanegan; Hal Ketchum; Bruce Robison; Freedy Johnston; Cowboy Junkies; Gatemouth Brown; Jack Ingram; Ray Wylie Hubbard; Star Room Boys; Jesse Winchester; Johnny Dilks; NRBQ; Meat Purveyors; Bela Fleck; Stephan Smith; Todd Thibaud; Scott McClatchy; Kelly Joe Phelps; Steve Tagliere; Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys; Bocephus King; Sovines.

BOUND
Book reviews
Woody Guthrie: A Life (by Joe Klein); footnotes.

THE NO DEPRESSION TOP 40
A retail chart for May-June 1999.

SCREEN DOOR
Stuff we like
Checking out old records at the public library.