Showcasing your songs under the bright lights is a great part of the life of a professional musician. But it’s when singer-songwriter Anna Tivel is offstage, perhaps in a dark corner of a theater or bar she just played, that […]
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As our feature story on October 2019 Spotlight artist Kelsey Waldon explains, her new album, White Lines/White Noise, has a lot to do with “home” — in many senses of the word. On the song “Kentucky, 1988,” it’s home in […]
As part of the story “Acts of Listening” in No Depression‘s Wellness-themed Fall 2019 print issue, we asked several roots artists to share with us their meditation practices and how mindfulness helps them stay healthy and creative. Our writeup of their responses […]
The evening birds punctuated the silence as Kelsey Waldon spoke to me from her back porch just outside of Nashville. For Waldon, it was a time to catch her breath before launching the tour to support her new album, White […]
“A big family, that’s what this is,” The Grascals’ Kristin Scott Benson said last night in Raleigh, North Carolina, while accepting her award for Banjo Player of the Year from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA). She was referencing the […]
There are a lot of beautiful moments, both sonically and lyrically, on Amy Speace’s new album, Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne. But the song “Both Feet on the Ground,” about Speace’s young son, Huck, is a real standout. “Every […]
The FreshGrass Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts is special in its own right – always a killer lineup, a gorgeous setting in the Berkshire Mountains just as fall is starting to set in, and friendly people who keep things running […]
When I was putting together my album art for this new record, Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne, I’d done a series of photographs with Neilson Hubbard in my backyard. Un-made up, my hair unbrushed, wearing a gray T-shirt and […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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