“Baby, I lost my soul in the black hole,” Jonah Tolchin sings on the opening track of his new album. I don’t know about that, but the singer-guitarist does get lost in some spellbinding grooves on “Black Hole” and other […]
“Baby, I lost my soul in the black hole,” Jonah Tolchin sings on the opening track of his new album. I don’t know about that, but the singer-guitarist does get lost in some spellbinding grooves on “Black Hole” and other […]
Nothing says Americana, in the broadest sense, more than trains. They’ve long been a source of romance and fascination — and, for songwriters, metaphor-laden inspiration. Trains may no longer have a dominant presence in the American consciousness, but Americana Railroad, […]
Delbert McClinton sets the record straight in the succinct, to-the-point manner that has always been a hallmark of the American music great’s lyrics. “I’m retired, but I’m not retired from music,” the 81-year-old Texas native says from his Nashville home. […]
Back in 2019, Corb Lund released an EP of songs by other artists. Cover Your Tracks was pretty eclectic, source-wise, and you would not immediately associate some of the artists chosen with a Canadian cowboy and country singer. (AC/DC? Nancy […]
“I’m searching for better days,” Pete Mancini sings over the assertive, country-inflected rock of the title song to his new album, Killing the Old Ways. It’s hard to think of a recent time when that sentiment has had deeper resonance. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joshua Hedley is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2022. His new album, Neon Blue, comes out on April 22 via New West Records. Look for more from Hedley all month long. Joshua Hedley, it seems, […]
On the title song of her new album, Good Day, Danielia Cotton makes a big promise: “I’m gonna give you a reason to wake up believing it’s gonna be a good day,” she sings over a buoyant, Motown-ish groove that […]
Back in 1990, The Rave-Ups ended their third album, Chance, with “Faint Sense of Success.” The title just about summed up the band’s career. After generating some initial buzz with 1985’s Town + Country and an appearance in the movie […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
In “My Stomping Ground,” the driving, horn-stoked rocker that gives his new album its title, Dion is back in the Bronx, where as a youth he first fell in love with music, from doo-wop to the blues. He spies three […]
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