It’s as advertised, a tribute to the original three members of The Carter Family delivered by a family tree full of Carters, spanning five generations of the first family of roots music’s legacy. Scrolling through the list of family contributors […]
The region of East Tennessee should be proud to boast that it hosted arguable two of the most important recording sessions in country music history in the late 1920s. Located merely 25 miles apart, Johnson City, Tennessee and Bristol, Tennessee, […]
Following is the opening essay from the Fall 2017/Foremothers issue of No Depression in print, which is now available for preorder. ** One night in my youth — I don’t recall the exact circumstances, but I was definitely younger than […]
As we plow into another week of our subscription drive (which we’re running until June 15), I thought it a good time to pop back into this space and give you an update. We still need about 1,200 more subscribers […]
It’s been a smidge more than a week since we announced our new subscription deal and the subscription drive we’re running, and I’m thrilled to say that we’ve passed the 1,500 subscriber mark! (Our ultimate goal is 7,000.) If you […]
I decided to attend this show because I know and love several of the musicians, but also because the idea of musicians who do not normally play country or folk music doing just that appealed to me. And then there […]
Nearly a year ago two long established singer-songwriters from either side of the Atlantic, Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, made a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles via Texas. On the way they recorded a series of railroad songs […]
There’s almost a sense of culture shock moving from IBMA week in Raleigh, North Carolina, to the Tennessee Fall Homecoming in Norris, Tennessee, about 30 miles north of Knoxville. IBMA provided an eye- and ear-popping musical feast. There, cutting edge bands explored […]
While it’s a little hard to admit that every now and then I can lose my focus and get sidetracked, there are those occasions when I take on a particular subject only to end up somewhere else. For example, about […]
It’s fitting that the opening song of Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams’ self-titled album (released June 23, 2015, on Red House Records) is “Surrender to Love.” Like the other great duos whose ranks they join – Emmylou Harris and Gram […]
