Back then the region was also a “No Depression” hotbed—home to Whiskeytown, Two Dollar Pistols, The Backsliders, 6 String Drag, dozens more. And our latest issue focused on all things alt-twang. My contribution, “An Acuff-Rose by Another Name,” was about the genre’s many labels and how no one could agree on what to call it. The accompanying note said something like, “Yeah, I don’t know what to call it either,” signed Patterson Hood. Cool—someone actually read my piece. So I took it all home and gave it a listen.