Staying true to yourself amid a changing world and evolving technology is no easy feat, but if anyone can do it, it’s Dwight Yoakam. Nearly 40 years into his recording career, the legendary Yoakam is still finding new ways […]
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.
Staying true to yourself amid a changing world and evolving technology is no easy feat, but if anyone can do it, it’s Dwight Yoakam. Nearly 40 years into his recording career, the legendary Yoakam is still finding new ways […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms are No Depression’s Spotlight artists for Nov. 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Gold in Your Pocket (out Nov.15 on Free Dirt Records), and look for more all month long. Before […]
In songs that are both earthy and cinematic, Jennifer Castle examines all the unglamorous corners of being an artist in an unstable world on her latest studio album, Camelot. The title suggests a bit of cheeky irony. Utopia, after […]
Four albums in, Soccer Mommy (the moniker of Sophie Allison) is pulling off a kind of magic trick by staying true to who she’s always been. Evergreen is the same intimate bedroom indie rock that first drew fans into her […]
The scary side effect of really getting to know yourself is the sudden inability to be anything but honest. Liv Greene has learned that in the sweetest way, spinning self-awakening into the golden-hued songs that make up her second album […]
The Americana gods must have been smiling down on Sophie Gault when they crossed her stars with award-winning producer Ray Kennedy, known for his work on Lucinda Williams’ seminal Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and Steve Earle’s Transcendental Blues, […]
Sometimes, even after a period of fruitful reinvention, it helps to go back to the root of the thing. The Deslondes, one of the most consistent bands putting out music today, are doing just that with their latest release, Roll […]
What does it mean to be “cool” after 60, and does it even matter? Amy Rigby is getting to the heart of it on her latest record, Hang in There With Me, expressing the universal feeling that one is always […]
Don’t call it a comeback, but in a way, it is one. Not to the music business, though. Shelby Lynne never left it. She’s been plugging away as a journeywoman singer and songwriter for decades. But about two years […]
If Joni Mitchell, Aimee Mann, and Sharon Van Etten’s voices wafted up into a cloud of lavender smoke, Skylar Gudasz would emerge from it in a poof, brilliant and gleaming. The golden-throated Southerner possesses that bewitching vocal quality that seems […]
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