The best music photographs, especially the photos of live performances, whether in small clubs or arena stages, re-create the passion of the artist’s performance. The photos take us there, give us front row seats, capture the lines of agony […]
The act of prayer involves entering into a space where the world falls away and where the person praying attempts to become one, at least momentarily, with the Other. Prayer can be a trance-like state, a state of deep dreaming […]
Mandy Barnett was born to make this album. Every Star Above’s songs from the Great American Songbook — the same songs Billie Holiday performed for her Lady in Satin — are perfect matches for Barnett’s lush and sultry vocals, and […]
Troubadour Graham Sharp invites us onto his front porch as he spins out rollicking bluegrass stompers, emotionally intimate and spare folk ballads, and a scampering rocker for his solo debut, Truer Picture. On this solo debut for Sharp, whose main […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Allison Russell is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Outside Child, out May 21 on Fantasy Records, all month long. Allison Russell’s first solo album, Outside Child, […]
Amy Speace looks at the world with bracing clarity. She peers into the shadows and darkness of everyday life — death and loss, grief and longing — and embraces them, for she knows that we must pass through the shadows […]
The best music memoirs simply unfold the moments of an artist’s life, without fanfare and without a desire to get even with former bandmates or friends. The best memoirs reveal to us — and revel in — what the Romantic […]
Todd Snider’s made a career of skewering our inflated ideas of ourselves and getting back to the bones of emotion and ragged humor of existence. He’s a reliable narrator to turn the world upside down in his lyrics, offering his […]
Over Labor Day weekend in 1941, photographer Edward Weston and his wife, Charis, the sister of Highlander Folk School’s librarian, Leon Wilson, stopped at the school for a visit. Weston was traveling across the country taking photographs to accompany a […]
Any album by Merry Clayton is reason to celebrate. Clayton, whose soaring and defiant vocals on the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” conveyed the raw, visceral emotion of the song and launched it into the sonic stratosphere, returns with her first […]
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