To play and maneuver an instrument like the harp is a feat, but to do so while simultaneously singing elegant, shimmering harmonies is a mesmerizing skill to behold. Mikaela Davis makes it look easy at the transportive live shows she […]
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.
To play and maneuver an instrument like the harp is a feat, but to do so while simultaneously singing elegant, shimmering harmonies is a mesmerizing skill to behold. Mikaela Davis makes it look easy at the transportive live shows she […]
In 2020, Max Clarke, who records under the name Cut Worms, released a kind of opus. A double album steeped in detail, Nobody Lives Here Anymore listened like a thick tome, filled with stories of a bygone era. It suited […]
Lukas Nelson has decided to give the people what they want. In the wake of the pandemic, as live music trickled back, he noticed his fans were itching to hear the kind of upbeat, good-time tunes they could sing along […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gabe Lee is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for July 2023. Learn more about Lee and his new album, Drink the River (out July 14 via Torrez Music Group), all month long. There is a moment in […]
There can be plenty of skepticism around joy, like it’s too pure, too earnest a feeling to be real. But when you give yourself over to it, as Detroit trio Bonny Doon seem to on their new album, the reward […]
Jess Williamson has always flirted with spiritualism in her songwriting, but also in the way she sings, her voice often vaporizing into the breathy whisper of a mystic about to divulge your destiny. The songs on her latest album, Time […]
Kassi Valazza is moving at her own pace, singing in her own time. The Portland, Oregon-based songwriter has an especially unhurried way about her vocals, which mostly float but occasionally curl at the ends like sun-kissed tendrils. These unexpected little […]
Dean Johnson’s music comes with a bit of lore. While known for years as a member of Seattle band The Sons of Rainier, his own songs have scarcely been heard outside a few rare live performances. But once you hear […]
Esther Rose is a songwriter for trying times. Be it the too frequent extremes of climate change or the loneliest moments of a co-dependent relationship, she articulates that dizzying mix of melancholy and anxiety with astounding empathy. Listening to each […]
“We all want a home / metaphorical or real / some place to make us feel whole,” Eric D. Johnson sings on the latest record — his tenth — under his Fruit Bats moniker, A River Running to Your Heart. […]
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