The Grammys have a lot of problems, and genre is at the heart of most of them. This year’s first nominee for Top Controversy is the decision (from an anonymous committee) to keep Kacey Musgraves’ new album, star-crossed, out […]
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We all think fondly about the albums we’ve loved over the years — the ones that got us through a breakup, made us dance in our living rooms, sounded awesome when we belted them out in our cars. But much […]
The Steve Martin Banjo Prize has named two winners of its prestigious award for 2021. The honorees — Alan Munde and Don Vappie — put the wide range of the instrument’s styles and genres on full display. The prize, […]
In an awards show infused with both the joy of reunion and the sorrow of missing beloved family members, the International Bluegrass Music Association honored some pioneers in the music as well as those carrying the tradition forward Thursday evening […]
The only surprise when Alison Krauss was announced among the 2021 inductees to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame was that she wasn’t already in. So many women who play or just love the music got into it because of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Charley Crockett is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for September. Read our interview with him about his new album, Music City USA, and get another taste of his storytelling here. Below, he shares a performance of one of […]
I’ve been attending MerleFest for more than 20 years now — but never quite like I did last weekend. Like clockwork (or, if you live in the South, like pollen) it has always arrived to Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in […]
The Americana Music Association’s Honors & Awards show from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Wednesday evening was a love-filled evening for artists who have left us, and for those who continue to move us forward with their music. The “family reunion,” […]
George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and later its folk counterpart, died this week at the age of 95. His inaugural jazz fest in 1954 became a template for such events for decades afterward, across genres. In […]
If you catch The Barefoot Movement at a bluegrass festival, you’re going to get the standard blazing fast instrumental runs in traded-off solos, beautiful harmonies, love songs and heartbreak songs. But what you won’t get is bored. Members of the […]
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