On the cover: Gillian Welch. Photograph by Jim Herrington. Song lyric from "Everything Is Free" by Gillian Welch.

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

A PLACE TO BE
Regional portrait
Renfro Valley in Eastern Kentucky.

MIKED
Live reviews
By The Hand Of The Father in Seattle, WA; Johnny Dowd in Albany, NY; Buck Off in New York City, NY; Stompin’ Tom Connors in Regina, Saskatchewan; Nickel Creek in Somerset, KY; Lyle Lovett & His Large Band in Morrison, CO; Gourds in Durham, NC; Clark Family Experience in Milwaukee, WI; Spread Your Wings Benefit in Charlotte, NC.

TOWN & COUNTRY
Brief regional features
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion (Columbia, SC); Tandy (New York City, NY); Webb Brothers (Chicago, IL); Tom Freund (Venice, CA); Joe Flood (Guilford, CT); Cyndi Boste (Melbourne, Australia); Elbert West (Nashville, TN); Minton Sparks (Nashville, TN); Adam Carroll (San Marcos, TX); David Clark (Cochran, GA).

DON’T ASK ME NO QUESTIONS
Q&A
Roger McGuinn (interview by Jim Musser).

THE LONG WAY AROUND
Extended features
Grant Lee Phillips (by Allison Stewart)
Amy Allison (by Barry Mazor)
Chris Knight (by Jesse Fox Mayshark)
Drive-By Truckers (by Baker Maultsby)
Gillian Welch (by Grant Alden)
Junior Brown (by Don McLeese)
Nick Lowe (by David Cantwell)

NOT FADE AWAY
Reissues
Buffalo Springfield; Washington Square Memoirs; Reverend Gary Davis; Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow; Dorothy Shay & Others; Holy Modal Rounders & Friends; Marty Robbins; Connie Stevens; Highwaymen; Area Code 615.

WAXED
Reviews
Townes Van Zandt tribute; Ryan Adams; Dale Watson; Florence Dore; John Hiatt; Robbie Fulks; Yayhoos; Tim O’Brien; 16 Horsepower; Tony Joe White; Jackie King/Willie Nelson; Audie Blaylock; Toni Price; Radney Foster; The
Word; Alison Krauss & Union Station; Kelly Joe Phelps; Ass Ponys; Nanci Griffith; Jack Logan; J.J. Cale; Bill Janovitz; Vic Chesnutt; Graham Parker; Dudley Connell/Don Rigsby; Chitlin’ Fooks; Edith Frost; Joe Goldmark; Jenifer McKitrick; Tracy Nelson; Lucy Kaplansky; Sanford Arms; Karen Poston;
Katy Moffatt; Kate Rusby; One Fell Swoop; Ol’ Yeller; Evangeline; Stuart Davis; Little Pink; Pullman. Imports: Hazeldine; Liquor Giants; Spoils. Tributes: Michael Nesmith; Nick Lowe; Chris Hillman. Books: Positively 4th
Street (by David Hadju); Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades Revisited (by Clinton Heylin); Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan (by Howard Sounes); Desperados: The Roots Of Country Rock (by John Einarson); "What’d I Say": The Atlantic Story (by Ahmet Ertegun).

THE NO DEPRESSION TOP 40
A retail chart for May-June 2001.

SCREEN DOOR
Stuff we like
Isle Of Printing poster art by Bryce McCloud.