My dear editor probably won’t like the title for this year’s annual list of my favorite music releases and new discoveries. I try to be the early-bird worm catcher before the onslaught of the thousands of other end-of-the-year lists, many […]
To mark their 30th anniversary as a band — and their month as No Depression’s Spotlight band for November 2019 — The Mavericks dug into their photo collections to share with us some key moments in their career, both onstage […]
In 2016, music historian Ed Ward explored the early years of rock and roll in The History of Rock & Roll, Volume I: 1920-1963 (Flatiron Books). He took a leisurely and long view of the development of the music that […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: For our Fall 2019 / Wellness issue, we asked several roots musicians for their favorite foods — the dishes with meaning in the making, strong memories, or just road-tested deliciousness. We got more responses than we could fit […]
With every music writer busy at work compiling lists for year-end reviews, on this last Tuesday in November before that deluge begins next month, three ND photographers — Boom Baker, Mark J. Smith and Carol Graham — and I have chosen seven […]
A few years back, after Bruce Robison had been able to put away some money from his songwriting, he built himself a studio. It had state-of-the-art equipment, everything it needed to make records in today’s world. “I got to the […]
Colder weather brings an abundance of choice on the major crowdfunding sites. Whether it’s bands jumping off the summer tour circuit to hit the studio again or artists hoping to get in on the seasonal gift buying rush, November and […]
If the mall’s not your thing on Black Friday, the folks behind Record Store Day offer a groovy (ug sorry) alternative. Nearly 200 special releases, most on vinyl, will be distributed to independent record stores for Record Store Day Black […]
Many of our collective memories about the ’60s didn’t actually occur during that decade. In fact, most cultural events we ascribe to that decade today actually took place in the 10-year period after the Summer of Love in 1967 and […]
For as long as he can recall, Booker T. Jones, the legendary Memphis musician who helped put Stax Records on the map, has been fascinated with music. “Music just came naturally to me,” he said in a recent interview with […]
