EDITOR’S NOTE: Humbird is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Right On, coming April 12 on Nettwerk, all month long. Some people meditate. Others might phone a friend, practice […]
Maeri Ferguson has music in her blood. She grew up twenty minutes from Fort Adams, attending her first Newport Folk Fest before she could even walk, and running through the tents of the Rhythm and Roots Fest at Ninigret in her cowboy boots once she could. Most people call her Mae, thanks to her dad's love of the Kershaw Brothers song "Hey Mae." From the time she was 12, her parents have been hosting monthly house concerts that turn her living room into Rhode Island's premiere destination for Americana, roots music and rock n' roll, and exposing her to some of the greatest singer-songwriters in the music industry. She's been listening to her dad's radio show, the Boudin Barndance, since before she can remember, and still tunes in on Thursday nights from the apartment in Los Angeles where she now lives. She works in public relations, and has been writing about music and reviewing live shows for more than five years, currently serving as a staff writer for No Depression and Glide Magazine. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @maeriferguson.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Humbird is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Right On, coming April 12 on Nettwerk, all month long. Some people meditate. Others might phone a friend, practice […]
You are your own worst critic, so the saying goes. It’s a near universal truth of humanity that it’s far easier to see all the bad than any of the good in moments of self-reflection. Nashville-based singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt started […]
The many lives of Joe Pernice have included frontman of multiple bands and solo projects, novelist, baseball coach, and TV writer. So much life lived can lead a man to come face to face with his own mortality, something Pernice […]
It might make sense to look at Saint Cloud, the beloved, spellbinding 2020 album from Waxahatchee, as a kind of beginning, as its nucleus Katie Crutchfield took her first steps toward a more alt-country sound. Then, her 2022 collaboration with […]
The funny thing about dreams coming true is that the wanting never stops. Wanting to feel settled but wanting to chase every opportunity is sort of the conundrum of trying to “make it” as an artist, and really for anyone […]
Sam Evian’s latest record, Plunge, sounds exactly like how it was made, over bucolic winter days at his upstate New York studio, surrounded by musician friends, taking daily plunges in a cold creek in the snow, and letting the songs […]
In Corb Lund’s world, the card tables are hot, the stakes are high, the boots are dirty, and the drinks are stiff. Listening to El Viejo, the Canadian country singer stalwart’s latest, is like cracking open a dusty, leather-bound book […]
Lola Kirke has long been dipping a toe in country music, but beyond what its title, Country Curious, suggests, her new EP is a cannonball into the deep end. Kirke is more than just curious, she is enthusiastically wrapping her […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Madi Diaz is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2024. Look for more about her and her new album, Weird Faith, out Feb. 9 on ANTI-, all month long. “I’m doing my damnedest to claim my […]
Though it must have been a brutally sad goodbye when Sarah Jarosz left her longtime home of New York City in 2020, her new city suits her. Polaroid Lovers, the seventh studio album from the prolific songwriter with a voice […]
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