EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Erelli is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2023. Look for more about Erelli and his new album, Lay Your Darkness Down, all month long. The highways were empty in that surreal autumn of 2020, […]
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: Mark Erelli is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2023. Look for more about Erelli and his new album, Lay Your Darkness Down, all month long. The highways were empty in that surreal autumn of 2020, […]
Like so many artists, JD Clayton went to Nashville to make his music dreams come true. But it was his Arkansas roots that ultimately helped him home in on his sound: no-frills and anchored by his true-blue twang. On his […]
“It’s who you become in the end,” Isabel Olive sings on “Miranda,” from Ancestral Home, her latest collection of songs under the moniker Half Gringa. Across five tracks, Olive is a seeker of selfhood, carving identity from passed-down stories, truths […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the end of the year approaches, we’re taking a look back at albums we weren’t able to review when they first came out. Cerulean was released in June via Soundly Music. Though what Ken Yates was […]
It was in the intimate moments of recording herself in pandemic isolation that Cornelia Murr crafted Corridor, the follow-up EP to her 2018 debut, Lake Tear of the Clouds. Self-recording and producing might be a daunting task, but it seems […]
There are a million things that could get in the way of finishing an album, and the courage it takes to do so cannot be overstated. When Caitlin Rose’s first new album in nearly a decade was derailed in early […]
Rayland Baxter was the only person who could harness the multitude of sonic pleasures on his latest, self-produced release If I Were a Butterfly. The predictably unpredictable Baxter holed up alone in an old rubber band factory in Kentucky for […]
On the morning Emily Scott Robinson’s coven was to convene in Nashville to record her new EP, Built on Bones — a cycle of songs inspired by the witches of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth — she got a […]
Two records arrived in early pandemic days of spring 2020 that proved timeless but also timely — salves for a terrifying time: Jess Williamson’s hauntingly ethereal Sorceress and Waxahatchee’s grounded, gut-wrenching Saint Cloud. Both were the kind of songwriter albums […]
Accepting yourself as you are takes work, and for Courtney Marie Andrews, it meant opening herself up to possibility. It meant writing a song a day, giving in to romance, and all the things that made her uncomfortable. The payoff […]
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