First of all, we’d like to welcome you to NoDepression.com, and to thank you for visiting. We’ve been talking about this “web launch” for so long now that it’s a little hard to imagine it’s finally here. Now that it […]
First of all, we’d like to welcome you to NoDepression.com, and to thank you for visiting. We’ve been talking about this “web launch” for so long now that it’s a little hard to imagine it’s finally here. Now that it […]
Among the highlights of this year’s Americana Music Association festival were a pair of events involving Glen Campbell, who was the subject of both a documentary film screening at the Country Music Hall of Fame on Saturday afternoon and a […]
[Editor’s note: The following piece appears in No Depression #76, the first in a new
Chatham County Line were never going to be the world’s best bluegrass band. Raised on classic rock ‘n’ roll and well-schooled in traditional country, they turned to bluegrass partly to grow as musicians, a goal they more than met with […]
The last few days in the rush to deadline are always hectic. There’s far too much to do in too little time, and the candle gets burnt at both ends…but, truth be told, that’s also what has always made this […]
“I don’t differentiate all that much between movies, music, TV — it’s like all these companion pieces that go along with your life.” –Steve Tannen Deb Talan and Steve Tannen of the Weepies are having a bit of a disagreement. […]
The announcement of the first public performances by the Reivers in nearly seventeen years, a Saturday-Sunday stand in mid-February at the Parish in the band’s hometown of Austin, engendered much excitement and anticipation — but also posed a nagging question […]
It’s Saturday morning at Merlefest in late April 2007, and the main stage is a whirlwind of rapid-fire musical collaborations. Leonard Podolak of Canadian string band the Duhks is playing ringmaster to what has been billed the “New Generation Super […]
This issue’s Screen Door piece on the reopening of Houston’s venerable Cactus Records store got me to thinking about a lot of the other record stores that have meant something to me at one point or another over the past […]
At first blush, this seems a bit presumptuous: An artist compiling a tribute album to himself? That appears to be the case with Wounded Knee, which collects Tom Russell songs rendered by the likes of Johnny Cash, Dave Van Ronk, […]
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