EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. Find other stories in the series here. The door to the House of Songs first […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Langhorne Slim is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for January 2021. Look for more about him and his upcoming album, Strawberry Mansion (out Jan. 29), all month long. Langhorne Slim didn’t set out to make a pandemic […]
The new year has rung in with good tidings of a new project from Loretta Lynn. Still Woman Enough, coming out March 19, is a studio album celebrating women in country music, according to a news release from Legacy Recordings. […]
I cried the day my dad came into the house and announced with great disappointment that his old Ford Ranger truck (complete with a cassette player) had officially eaten the tape — our only copy of Church Street Blues […]
This year, as we have every year since 2004, we gave our readers the impossible task of choosing their 10 favorite roots music albums from among the year’s new releases. In 2020, as always, readers took up the challenge enthusiastically, […]
The International Bluegrass Music Association announced on its social media channels Saturday that iconic bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice passed away on Christmas Day at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was 69 years old. “Sometime during Christmas morning […]
Right under the wire, Congress has passed a bill authorizing $900 billion in aid to individuals and businesses as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to run rampant in America. Much has been made of the measure’s direct payments to individuals — […]
In a year when everything was upended and scary, No Depression readers reached eagerly, and perhaps understandably, for what’s familiar. Topping our 2020 Year-End Readers Poll, which received more than 6,800 ballots, were new albums from roots music’s current leading […]
With touring forced to a halt in 2020, artists found themselves with time on their hands, and the creative spirit stops for no virus. Many musicians channeled their energies into cover songs as they waited things out at home, playing […]
Even though it couldn’t take place on the Ryman Auditorium stage this year amid the usual packed schedule of a sweaty September AmericanaFest, the Americana Music Association’s 19th annual Americana Honors & Awards still celebrated the genre’s torchbearers in […]
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