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 […]
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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 […]
Fiddlers don’t fret. — Leanna Price, The Price Sisters And fiddlers don’t fret over the differences between a fiddle and a violin either. Other than sometimes a half centimeter difference in the instrument’s bridge, they’re the same instrument. It’s amazing that […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Parker Millsap is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2021. Read more about him and his new album, Be Here Instead, in our feature story, and look for more all month long. Long before the pandemic hit, Parker Millsap was […]
You just knew he wasn’t just sitting around amid the lockdown. With touring off his plate in the past year, Chris Thile recorded a vocal and mandolin album exploring his personal views on spirituality. Laysongs, an album of six covers […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Parker Millsap is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2021. Look for more about him and his new album, Be Here Instead (out April 9), all month long. How does Parker Millsap view himself as an artist? That’s the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Spring 2021 journal, “The Great American Songbook.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sara Watkins is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for March 2021. Her new album, Under the Pepper Tree, comes out this Friday on New West. Read about Watkins and Under the Pepper Tree in our feature story, and don’t […]
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. As in Part 1 of this story, […]
The road to release for +1, the new album of duets out today from fiddle virtuoso and songwriter Mike Barnett, was longer than anyone could have imagined. The songs on +1, first slated for release last September, were recorded […]
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