EDITOR’S NOTE: Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Mark Erelli is an observer at heart, writing songs about the big issues in today’s world (“By Degrees,” his song about gun violence, division, and more, is nominated for the Americana Music Awards Song of the […]
WARNING: This review contains some spoilers. Please save it for later if you would prefer to see the movie first. “Life isn’t about finding yourself, or finding anything. It’s about creating yourself.” — Bob Dylan Life is a carnival. However, […]
Ever since Mariee Sioux released her 2007 debut album, Faces in the Rocks, people have been telling the 34-year-old singer-songwriter how much her music has helped them reconnect with lost parts of themselves. Sioux inherited the musicianship of her Polish-Hungarian […]
Although it’s been 10 years since their last album, Written in Chalk, Buddy and Julie Miller didn’t have any special plans to make a new album. Their new record, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, out on New West on June […]
Leon Redbone, who died Thursday at an age he always declined to specify, wasn’t a hitmaker, but he did make quite an impression. His head and heart were firmly in yesteryear, and he wove songs with roots in the first […]
“Do you know that old song ‘Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage?’” folk singer Si Kahn asks last month, a few days after his 75th birthday. “That’s the relationship between music and activism,” […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rising Appalachia is No Depression‘s Spotlight band for May. Read our feature about them here and watch a video of their song “Harmonize,” from their new album, Leylines, here. Our name is Rising Appalachia. Appalachia for the homelands where […]
When Ken Burns’ eight-episode docuseries Country Music debuts on Sept. 15, the first story told will not take place in Texas or Tennessee. Instead, the series’ in-depth look at the genre’s roots begins in downtown Atlanta, where Okeh Records’ Ralph […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story by Caryn Rose in our Summer 2019 print issue “Folk.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, available for pre-order here. And please consider supporting No Depression with […]
I’ve eaten three fried-bologna sandwiches in my lifetime, each of them in Illinois. The first was in Diane Rhodes’ apartment at the Samuel Gompers Homes, the oldest public housing development in East St. Louis. Rhodes’ teenage son, Tommie Liddell Jr., […]
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