There comes a day when it’s time to walk away from the bar and quit your good-timing ways. Willie Nelson and Billy Strings are here to be our guides into clean living as they go sober in a new […]
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When Willie Nelson has a birthday, it’s always cause for celebration. As the revered singer-songwriter marks his 90th birthday this week, homegrown Texas record label and recording studio The Next Waltz has released One Night in Texas: The Next […]
Riding a wave of big buzz and bigger awards, bluegrass breakout Molly Tuttle and her band, Golden Highway, are keeping things going with a new album. City of Gold, out July 21 on Nonesuch Records, follows last year’s Crooked […]
Amanda Shires’ next collaborative project isn’t with husband Jason Isbell or supergroup The Highwomen, but rather with one of her personal heroes, the late Bobbie Nelson. Loving You, coming June 23 on Silver Knife/ATO Records, is the culmination of years […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: To mark what would have been the year of Doc Watson’s 100th birthday, we asked Jens Kruger, who knew Watson personally and professionally, to tell us about his friend and what he has meant to music. The […]
Musicians’ memoirs fall into one of two categories. One type descends into an inferno of drug-fueled episodes of sex with a new partner every night, with very little attention to the music that consumed the artist’s life and work — […]
This year’s MerleFest, kicking off this Thursday, is an extra special one. This year’s edition, the 35th, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Doc Watson, the founding father of the “traditional plus” festival that was started in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bella White is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2023. Learn more about her and her new album, Among Other Things, in our interview, and read about her songwriting approach in her own words in this essay. Flowers figure prominently […]
The state of Tennessee this week added a new song to its list of official anthems. Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road,” about a Vietnam veteran returning home to scratch out a living growing pot, joined the ranks of “Tennessee Waltz” […]
Taj Mahal is a hard man to disguise. Throw a cloak over him, sit him in a corner, hide him in a back room. But as soon as he gets near a mic, his cover is blown. His substantial […]
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