EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is an excerpt from our Summer 2020 print issue, “Tools of the Trade.” The print edition is sold out, but you can purchase the digital version here. Start a digital or print subscription to No […]
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I am sitting in my bedroom, which during this pandemic has been multitasking as an office for my daily income-earning job. It also serves as my music room and sleeping quarters. There are three guitars each tuned differently on […]
Chicago has always been synonymous with jazz and blues. Even now (at least until March 2020) you could head down to the South Loop to Buddy Guy’s club or just north of downtown to Kingston Mines for a night of […]
Grace Potter was washing the windows in her living room when a thunderbolt of inspiration struck. Official lockdown orders due to the coronavirus pandemic had caused everyone to sequester in their homes, feeling anxious, afraid, and alone. The singer-songwriter was […]
As we get ready to stream this year’s Newport Folk Festival, titled “Newport Folk Revival Weekend,” photographer/writer Jim Brock, who has attended five of the last six festivals, shares with us some of his thoughts, memories, and favorite moments from […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Samantha Crain is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for July 2020. Read more about Crain and her new album, A Small Death, in our feature story, and see a video of Crain playing her song “Holding to the Edge […]
This month, I’ve been working on learning and unlearning, and trying to do better in the fight for racial justice. Somewhere in that process, it came to my attention that my voice is not the one that needs to be […]
You may have caught the story on cable news or perhaps social media, but last Friday a singer-songwriter named Clayton Gardner was livestreaming an outdoor acoustic show in front of a small, socially distanced audience in Las Colinas, Texas. He […]
During the summer — especially this summer — we get a chance to catch up on all that reading we’ve been meaning to do, and to pare away at that stack on the floor beside our bed, or on our […]
Last year, Courtney Marie Andrews was in Lisbon, Portugal, taking some time away from home to write. One evening at a fado cafe, she hit it off with a Portuguese poet after playing a song for him. Deep into […]
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