Drive-By Truckers are No Depression‘s Spotlight band for January 2020. Read our feature story about them here, and don’t miss Patterson Hood’s essay on writing songs in 21st Century USA. Politics have always been personal in the songs of Drive-By […]
In a daytime ceremony that could teach the prime-time version a thing or two about short speeches and ruthless efficiency, musicians categorized as “American Roots” got their moment in the Grammy spotlight. The ceremony started just as news was breaking […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Even the Sparrow was released in May. Even as you relax into the sounds of Kansas […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the 2010s draw to a close, we at No Depression wanted to honor the artists who have had the biggest impact on roots music over the past decade. Jason Isbell joins Brandi Carlile, Chris Thile, and Rhiannon Giddens as our Artists of the […]
Back in 2004, we started asking No Depression readers for their favorite roots music albums at the end of each year. After all, who has better taste than you? Every year, you’ve obliged, creating with your votes a kick-ass list […]
As we gathered votes for our 2019 Year-End Readers Poll (sorry, voting is now closed), we thought it would be illuminating to look back at the results from the past 10 years of YERP, as we call it. Some of […]
A few years back, after Bruce Robison had been able to put away some money from his songwriting, he built himself a studio. It had state-of-the-art equipment, everything it needed to make records in today’s world. “I got to the […]
The 2020 Grammy nominations were announced early this morning, and some roots music artists woke up to some very good news. Here are the nominees in the American Roots Music category, which includes Americana, bluegrass, folk, blues, and music […]
Full of lush, sweeping arrangements and deeply vulnerable self-examination, Desert Dove is Michaela Anne’s most expansive work yet. The album, produced by Sam Outlaw and Delta Spirit’s Kelly Winrich, is still rooted in the classic country she’s come to be […]
You could fill hours of airtime with a retelling of Dolly Parton’s life story. Maybe you’d start with her childhood in the Smoky Mountains, where she was one of 12 children in a family that struggled to make ends meet. […]
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