Bonus web-only content for ND #49:
ND Best of 2005 ballots

ON THE COVER: Joe Henry. Photograph by Kristine Larsen.

FRONT PORCH
Hello Stranger; Box Full Of Letters; Field Reportings; Letter From New Orleans; Farther Along.

MIKED — live reviews
International Bluegrass Music Awards in Nashville, TN; Iron & Wine/Calexico in Seattle, WA; Freakwater, Marah in Lexington, KY; Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell in Des Moines, IA; Murry Hammond in Burbank, CA; Meters in Chicago, IL; Randy Newman in Birmingham, AL.

TOWN & COUNTRY — brief regional features
Friends Of Dean Martinez (Austin, TX); Wayne Scott (Crane’s Nest, KY); Cast King (Old Sand Mountain, AL); Edith Frost (Chicago, IL); Deadman (Austin, TX); Jenny Lewis (Los Angeles, CA).

NO DEPRESSION CRITICS’ POLL
The top new releases and reissues of 2005.

THE LONG WAY AROUND — extended features
Joy Lynn White by Barry Mazor
Norman & Nancy Blake by Roy Kasten
Okkervil River by Kurt B. Reighley
Bobby Bare by John Morthland
Dann Penn & Spooner Oldham by John Milward
Joe Henry by David Cantwell
Susan Tedeschi by Jesse Fox Mayshark
Ellis Hooks by Kurt B. Reighley
Mac Wiseman by Barry Mazor

NOT FADE AWAY — reissues
Ray Charles; Doc Watson Family; Delmore Brothers; Roy Brown; Atomic Platters; Los Pinguinos Del Norte; Lyn Collins; Shake What You Brought; My Goodness, Yes; Snooks Eaglin; Bruce Springsteen; John Fogerty.

WAXED — reviews
Beth Orton; Merle Haggard; Marty Stuart; Billy Joe Shaver; Rhett Miller; Ryan Adams; Cat Power; Mendoza Line; Curt Kirkwood; David Childers & the Modern Don Juans; Robert Pollard; John Cale; Soundtracks (Brokeback Mountain, Elizabethtown, Four Dead Batteries, Walk The Line, The Squid And The Whale); Vashti Bunyan; Lesley Gore; Buddy Guy; Freddy Fender & Flaco Jimenez; Ronnie Bowman; April Verch; BR549; Subdudes; Our New Orleans 2005; Hands Across The Water; Gibson Brothers; Eric Andersen; Chris Mills; Drunk Stuntmen; Daddy; Lowe Profile; Angela Strehli; Robert McCreedy; Winterpills; Shelley Short; Brandi Shearer; Mark Mulcahy; Pinetop Seven; Jon Nicholson; Eddie Spaghetti; Bill Malone & Rod Moag.

BACK PORCH
Film At 11; Bound; No Depression Top 40; Screen Door.