“Jason Isbell told me, ‘One thing you have to understand about about Amanda [Shires], she’s a butterfly from outer space.’” — Brandi Carlile at the Americana Music Honors & Awards Show While Amanda Shires was certainly the object of much […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2019 print issue “Folk.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, available here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music […]
Don’t miss the red carpet photo gallery from ND’s Amos Perrine at the bottom of this post! “We are all given a gift to touch the world,” said the War & Treaty’s Michael Trotter as he and his wife, Tanya […]
“Someone once said to me if you want to write about the war, write about the soldier,” says singer-songwriter Amy Speace from her Nashville home. On Speace’s eighth solo album, Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne, she writes about […]
Ken Burns documentaries typically rely on scholars as narrators. Obviously, Burns’ crew couldn’t talk to a member of the 1908 Chicago Cubs, making the game’s historians the best sources for the 1994 series Baseball. Likewise, for a modern topic like […]
When Newport Folk Festival’s executive director Jay Sweet addressed the fans gathered at the Quad Stage at 5:35 p.m. on July 26, he said, “You’re the first people anywhere to ever hear these words: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome The […]
Now in its 20th year, AmericanaFest is celebrating in style. The first thing I noticed is, even more so than in previous years, the Americana Music Association taking its role as curator extremely seriously. They’ve done a superb job of […]
When Dylan Goldberger draws Merle Haggard as a guitar-strumming squirrel or Dolly Parton as a collie in a truck bed, rest assured it’s an act of tribute. For his new book of illustrations, Four Legs, Wings, and Six Strings, the […]
It’s pretty standard practice in the magazine industry to do a “food and drink” issue, on top of the many entire publications devoted to the topic, such as Food & Wine, Saveur, and Bon Appétit, just to name a few. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Guitarist Deren Ney first posted these thoughts on his Facebook page on Aug. 27, the day the news broke that singer-songwriter and guitarist Neal Casal (The Cardinals, Phil Lesh, Hard Working Americans, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Circles Around the Sun) […]
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