As The Rolling Stones toured America this fall, Mick Jagger delightfully documented his off-hours activities on Instagram: hikes in the woods, trips to local dive bars, a visit to the Gateway Arch in St. Louis — all seeming to attract […]
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Over the past two years, we have endured the ravages of a pandemic, the miasma of political and social chaos, and the devastation of loss, often obscuring hope in a dark hopelessness that endures even into this season of light. […]
With the uncertainty of COVID-19 and its variants as a backdrop, how could there be good news in 2021? The good news is the year was an outstanding one for roots music releases. So many that one article, let […]
It’s no easy task, but every year when it comes time for No Depression’s staff and contributors to pick their favorite roots music releases, they knock it out of the park. As always, there’s some overlap with our Year-End Readers […]
They say the songs you hear in adolescence are the ones that stick with you, resonating over the rest of your life and, of course, embedding their lyrics forever in your brain. For American Aquarium bandleader BJ Barham, those […]
As previously discussed in this column, much of what we consider to be “roots music” these days stemmed directly from the Black experience in America. Spirituals and gospel have their origins in the field churches of enslaved Black Americans. […]
This week 10 ND photographers, from Scotland, the US, and Australia, select the cream of the roots music crop released this year. Nearly all the artists picked as favorites are familiar names, especially to readers of this column, but […]
In a year where people were mostly kept apart by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, music brought us together. By summer, we were venturing out to see live shows, mostly outdoors, often at a distance still, but all through 2021, recorded […]
One of the first Todd Snider songs I heard was “Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues.” For those unfamiliar, the song satirizes the dying days of grunge, when it started to be consumed by the same excesses that helped it […]
It’s hardly a surprise anymore when a big-name artist sells their catalog to a corporation for millions of dollars. It’s hard to blame them as times get harder and harder for musicians. With a long touring drought amid COVID-19 […]
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