With two evocative words, Wilder Woods (Bear Rinehart)’s FEVER/SKY captures the duality of lockdown. The sense of confinement with the desire to be free — and using the information superhighway to approximate it — idle in the background of Rinehart’s […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pony Bradshaw is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for January 2023. Read more about Bradshaw and his new album, North Georgia Rounder, out Jan. 27, all month long. On Pony Bradshaw’s North Georgia Rounder, the landscape is as […]
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. Horse Camp was released in October. When we last left The Lowest Pair, […]
When your whole life revolves around travel and gigging, and that world suddenly stops revolving, what happens? Melissa Carper faced that question in 2020, fresh off the release of her acclaimed Daddy’s Country Gold (ND review). Carper is a joyous […]
If nothing else, country music is about nostalgia, the sad realization that you can never quite go home again, even if you never leave. On Gabe Lee’s The Hometown Kid, Lee illustrates that you can come from a big city […]
Sweet Tooth, Mali Obomsawin’s solo debut, is rich in history and soaring musicianship. Obomsawin, formerly of Lula Wiles, unleashes their formal jazz training at Dartmouth College in a suite of six songs that are epic and intimate in scope: the […]
Cory Branan’s songs have a way of sticking with you. Branan is a restless craftsman who seems to view songwriting as something of a science. Whether in the studio or on the stage, he isn’t afraid to pick his work […]
The music industry is grueling, no question about it. While a typical music festival might focus on good times or discussions about the State of the Industry, the inaugural Park City Song Summit, taking place this week in Utah, […]
There’s a moment we all must face when we realize that going away can help us find ourselves. For LGBTQ+ young people in rural areas, however, that choice is as painful as it is liberating: Why must you reject part […]
Anna Tivel has it on lock at this point. With three incredible studio albums behind her and one standout EP, Tivel has many strengths and no flaws. She’s one of the finest storytellers modern folk music has to offer, with […]
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