by Kim Ruehl Missouri may be fly-over country for folks on the coasts, but while we’re all flying high in our planes, down on the ground, Kansas City boasts a remarkable music scene. It’s been home to outlaw country band the […]
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Portland-based singer-songwriter Ashleigh Flynn has been earning her way up the folk/roots/Americana totem pole for years, playing her heart out in cities around the country. Like many on the Portland scene, Flynn seems to pull from a bottomless source of inspiration […]
Back in the ’90s, when No Depression (the magazine) was just starting to rev its engine, a little band from Raleigh, NC, called Six String Drag earned praise from Peter Blackstock. He called the band’s debut album “too good to be […]
By Kim Ruehl For years at Christmas, the music-loving crowds in Austin, Tex., have been lapping up the delicious harmonies and sweet, natural musicality which seems to magically happen when Kelly Willis and her husband Bruce Robison take the stage together. […]
By Devon Leger, Hearth Music It’s not hard to figure out what’s great about the new John Driskell Hopkins album: the combination of tough-as-nails roots country with hard-picking bluegrass is simply irresistible! Hopkins is best known as the bassist in the Zac […]
by Kim Ruehl If you’ve been hanging around No Depression for a while, you’ve probably read a word or two about the Canadian duo Whitehorse. Comprised of husband-and-wife team Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, the duo is the result of years […]
by Kim Ruehl Brooklyn-based folksinger Nels Andrews has been slowly but surely building a remarkable career playing the role of the story-singing troubadour. Since earning the coveted New Folk title at 2002’s Kerrville Folk Festival (held in other years by Nanci Griffith […]
by Kim Ruehl Memphis is a town of grit and soul – known for raw, passionate music which runs the gamut from country and blues to soul and back again. So it makes perfect sense that a trio by the name […]
By Nancy Dunham First Canadian-born Neil Young showed Americana lovers what the genre was all about, now Canadian-born Lindi Ortega follows suit for traditional country aficionados. Not that the Nashville-based Ortega with a voice that has been likened to Emmylou Harris-meets-Dolly-Parton-meets-Johnny- […]
by Kim Ruehl Over the course of his entire career – whether with bands like Brinsley Schwarz and Rockpile, collaborating with John Hiatt, Elvis Costello, and Ry Cooder, or pursuing his own solo projects – Nick Lowe has proven to be […]
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