Don’t let the sunny yellow album cover and cheery title fool you: Happy Again is an album about being sad. The 11 songs written by Bill and the Belles frontman Kris Truelsen in the aftermath of his divorce provide the […]
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In the patchwork of American history — and American music — not every piece is pretty. There’s pain woven in, and Paula Cole wanted to reflect that as she chose songs for her new album, American Quilt, out this […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Allison Russell is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2021. Read our feature story here about her and her debut solo album, Outside Child, out May 21. And look for more from Russell at No Depression all month […]
The long-awaited Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has set an opening date of May 10, 2022. The museum will be home to more than 100,000 items from the Bob Dylan Archive, including handwritten lyrics, unreleased recordings, rare photos, […]
Like a needed kick in the butt as the world returns to something like normal, Son Volt is back with their 10th studio album, Electro Melodier, coming out July 30 on Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers. “I wanted to concentrate on the […]
We’re always glad to have Lucinda Williams in our lives, but we’re especially grateful after Rolling Stone reported this week that she had a stroke last November. She felt off balance and then couldn’t walk one day at her […]
Robert Earl Keen is known for his good-time songs and raucous shows, but there’s always been a lot of heart behind all that. You can hear it right there in his songs (the lovely waltz “No Kinda Dancer,” not […]
Fiddle player Casey Driessen first mapped out the goals that would lead to nine months of travel and musical collaborations for his Otherlands project across a pile of Post-it notes. During a break between tours several years ago, he […]
There’s been a lot of talk in this pandemic era of forging some new kind of normal — going back to doing the things we love but finding ways to do them better. Concerts most definitely are something we […]
If you live anywhere near water, chances are you’ve seen one: a great blue heron flying low against the sky, silent as it soars along a straight line toward its destination. Sarah Jarosz has seen them too — so […]
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