There’s a moment on Sadler Vaden’s new album where he sings, “No one asks if I’m doing alright / Does anybody seem to care? / I’m just trying to get through tonight, so tell me / Tell me, is there […]
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There are no small statements made on LP5, John Moreland’s fifth full-length solo album. Like his records that have come before, a subtle thread of faith is strewn throughout, placing Moreland’s poetry in an often divine, always complex space. In the […]
The Lone Bellow have never been strangers to letting their personal lives saturate the music they create. In fact, Zach Williams first began writing songs as a way to cope with the paralysis his wife was left with following a horseback […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Drive-By Truckers are No Depression‘s Spotlight band for January 2020. Read our feature about the Truckers and their new album, The Unraveling, here. “I think we clocked in 85 hours in the studio that week making the record,” says Patterson […]
In the middle of his “American Childhood” three-song suite, Terry Allen sings with an ominous confidence, “It’s just the war, same fucking war, it’s always been. It never ends.” That stark hopelessness in “Bad Kiss,” the second song in the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Drive-By Truckers are No Depression’s Spotlight band for January 2020. Look for more on the band and their new album, The Unraveling (out Jan. 31), all month long. There’s an interesting juxtaposition on the cover of Drive-By […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Thousand Dollar Dinners was released in March. Sometimes you play to win / Sometimes you just […]
There’s a certain kind of self-awareness that arises when you’ve worked in the same career for 30 years. For some, it may consist of near-perfect understanding of their particular vocation. For others, it may produce a deeper love for something […]
Chris Knight is a storyteller. Since releasing his self-titled debut in 1998, Knight’s been telling unforgettable tales in a matter of minutes. Chris Knight opens with the classic “It Ain’t Easy Being Me,” which begins: “There ought to be a town somewhere […]
Theologian Kosuke Koyama once wrote that “there is a powerful trend in our world today to turn away from the traditional toward the revolutionary.” Koyama points out that no matter how much you move toward the “supersonic aircraft,” the traditional […]
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