EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. In early March, as COVID-19 was causing havoc in Washington state, a choir got together […]
The 11th annual 30A Songwriters Festival wrapped on Monday, after five days and nights of a diverse array of songwriter-centered music, spread across 36 venues along a scenic highway on Florida’s panhandle. Though 30A does the big-stage-in-a-field thing that many […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an excerpt of a story from No Depression’s Fall 2016 print issue, “Speak Up!”, about a pre-Broadway production of the musical Hadestown. The Broadway version, adapted from singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s folk opera, won eight Tony Awards […]
In 1947, Pete Seeger sat in a room with Zilphia Horton and learned to sing a song she was calling “We Will Overcome.” She sang it in a long, slow, freeform, heart-driven alto — what their mutual friend Woody Guthrie […]
Music can feel like magic sometimes. Even if we’re not listening closely, it can stir something deep inside of us. But when we engage with it, we realize, almost in our bones, that music is a survival tactic. As social […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an excerpt from a story in our Appalachia-themed journal from Spring 2018. You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, available here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a […]
You’d be hard-pressed to name a music festival where songwriting wasn’t a cornerstone of the entire event. Yet for the past ten years an arts council in a county of small beach towns along the Florida Panhandle has been throwing […]
Put aside the dumpster fire that consumed national news this year, and you have to admit it was actually a pretty good year … for music. After all, artists exist to comment on and respond to the world around them, and […]
Here in Asheville, in the wood behind my home, the leaves are changing color and falling from the trees. The temperature has yet to give way, but I know it’s coming — that crisp, autumnal, chai-flavored breeze. The beer people […]
The Americana Music Awards were handed out during a ceremony held earlier this week in Nashville, Tennessee. Winners included long-time Nashville favorites like Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives (Group/Duo of the Year) and Rodney Crowell (Song of the Year), […]
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