EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2021 journal, “Voices.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music journalism, in print […]
Sturgill Simpson has announced his latest musical project, a concept album titled The Ballad of Dood and Juanita, set for release Aug. 20. “I just wanted to write a story — not a collection of songs that tell a […]
The 32nd annual International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards nominees were announced in a livestream Tuesday morning from Nashville’s Station Inn. The nominees largely hewed to a list of usual suspects, with a lot of overlap with last year’s […]
The minute Shadow Kingdom was announced, rumors and speculations began to ripple through the rarified air of Bob Dylan fandom. Would the $25 a ticket streamed special be a filmed version of a live performance, his first since 2019? Or […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Yola is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for July 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Stand For Myself (out July 30), in our feature story, and look for more from Yola all month long. […]
Last week’s column featured a short review of Mary Gauthier’s new book, Saved by a Song, and an excerpt from the book’s introduction. This week, I talk with Mary about her process of writing the book and her ideas about […]
The pandemic may have shuttered venues and record stores for a while last year, but the music kept going, and we’re so happy to see that the physical places that support it — those venues and stores — are beginning […]
With the world shut down for most of 2020, it was hard to predict what 2021 would bring in terms of music. The end of full-band rockers? A glut of lonely songs from people’s bedrooms? Nothing at all? Thankfully, […]
Though they’ve been making music since 1989, The Wallflowers didn’t grab the world’s attention until seven years into their career, when they released their second studio album, Bringing Down the Horse. With hardly any warning, this record would prove […]
When Mary Gauthier was 7 years old, she and her mother would head to the bookmobile on Saturday mornings near their home in Baton Rouge. It was her favorite day of the week. After she got inside the mobile library, […]
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