As I was finishing last week’s column on overlooked albums, I became aware of some releases, just out or about to be released, that I found intriguing. As the December Through the Lens columns will be devoted to various […]
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As sure as a cold snap and a thousand Black Friday emails in your inbox, this time of year brings glad tidings of holiday albums. Some, if we’re being honest, feel like an idea generated by an algorithm, a rehash […]
As lists of best books of 2021 start to dot the pages of various magazines and book review sections, just in time for the start of the Christmas shopping season, I’m going to list three books for which I […]
The Grammy buzz this year has been more of a hiss. First, Kacey Musgraves’ new album, star-crossed, was booted out of consideration for the country categories, assigned instead to pop (though one of its songs, “Camera Roll,” has received […]
It’s that time of the year when folks begin talking about the best albums of the year. It’s also a time to look at albums I think did not get the attention they were due, albums that were not […]
In the hundreds of concerts I’ve been to, the onstage quote I most repeat came courtesy of Mollie O’Brien, who introduced a forlorn love song by saying “We’re Irish. We’re not happy unless we’re sad.” In some ways, the […]
Thanksgiving Thursday is great — you gorge yourself with delicious food all day, and then napping it off on the couch is expected behavior. But by Friday you might be ready to get out of the house for a while […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gov’t Mule, co-founded and fronted by Warren Haynes, is No Depression’s Spotlight band for November. Read our feature about their new album, Heavy Load Blues, here, and check out this video performance of “I Asked Her For Water (She […]
The future of live music radio show and webcast Music City Roots, a roots music mainstay since 2009, has been unclear since it left its home at The Factory venue in Franklin, Tennessee, in 2017 for a Nashville venue […]
For any of you who read my column last month, you’ll know that I have been doing some work on getting my mental health in order — a bit of fall cleaning, shall we say (sweep out that dysfunction!). […]
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