Fluff & Gravy Records is a Portland-based label and recording studio that has an eclectic roster of artists, about two-thirds of which are from the Northwest. John Shepski runs things with the personal touch that comes from also being a […]
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This is the third DJ we’ve interviewed from St. Louis’s fiercely independent KDHX. I am impressed by their programming and community involvement. Kelly Wells is not only a host but also a staff member, and has a country-folk band with […]
2016 was a year to make you believe in astrology. I don’t know very many people for him 2016 was an excellent year. As I’ve hinted at throughout the year, I’ve been through my own share of upheaval. Here’s the […]
Last week the Americana Music Association released its year-end list of songs that got the most airplay on Americana radio, and in the next few weeks No Depression and other like-minded music websites and mags will publish their own music […]
Last weekend (July 22-24), the Newport Folk Festival featured a couple of leading Americana bands from the Chicago based Bloodshot Records label. Freakwater and The Banditos might be a generation apart, however, both played impressive sets at the historic festival […]
Freakwater was making “No Depression music” back before there even was an ND. And now they’re back after nearly a decade, with a stunner of a new album that’s been reminding critics why we loved them in the first place. Following that theme […]
It’s been close to decade since the last Freakwater release, Thinking Of You. Stalwarts, Catherine Irwin and Janet Bean came together with long time low-end picker Dave Gay for the latest, most beautiful offering of perfectly off-beat harmonies, lyrics sans filter, […]
Hiding out in the upper right corner of the states, in Rhode Island, we have “Boudin” Dan Ferguson, whose philosophy and “work” ethic I greatly appreciate. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What other stations have you […]
This is the first DJ profile where I didn’t know the person beforehand. It’s also the first DJ who has an “air name” and wishes to keep his anonymity sacred. I found Professor Purple through the Twang DJ Yahoo group, where like-minded air […]
As the one-sheet that describes the new Freakwater album attests, the group indeed employs a more dappled sonic palette — brass, pump organ, violins (instead of fiddles) — here than they have on previous records. Still, the burst of guitar […]
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