The Cologne Concerts, Eric Andersen’s second live album in a career which spans five decades, represents the best of what live recordings are about. It is a document of a work of art rather than a rehash of already recorded songs. The question […]
“NRBQ is a living, breathing, ongoing sound,” says Adams as he begins historic band’s next chapter. NEW YORK, N.Y. — Terry Adams, visionary, driving force, and “untamed genius of the keyboards” for the great American band NRBQ since its inception […]
The Imperial Rooster are one of those bands, like Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show or Southern Culture on the Skids, who come around once a decade or so. The type of band who can play, sing, and write as […]
Tara Nevins has been one of the main songwriters and vocalists in the roots band, Donna the Buffalo, for more than two decades, building a collection of fine roots albums and a widespread fan base known as The Herd. […]
It’s been three years since the 75th issue of No Depression, sadly the last. While the website has carried on its legacy, I miss the ghost of human beings and their art or written word, remnants of existence. These physical issues were […]
Two postings, combined into one, on Gil Scott-Heron, dead at age 62, a poet, prophet and spokesperson of the black urban American experience. A merciless and unsentimental truth-teller when he emerged on the scene in the ’70s, by telling Afro-identified […]
Latest installment of “Between Two Ferns”: http://tinyurl.com/42xkrm3 Tommy Stinson live in-studio preview of the new album: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/05/26/tommy_stinson/ Mumford & Sons 4/27/11 Satellite Radio: http://tinyurl.com/3exp3yw Neko Case 11/5/06 FM: http://tinyurl.com/3rspzgp Preview of a new Fountains of Wayne […]
By ‘Rebel’ Rod Ames I arrived at the Kerrville Folk Festival for opening day on Thursday with my sister/photographer, T. K. Diaz to cover the evening for the blogs I enjoy writing. There is my blog, From Under the Basement […]
1.0 – How do you think your new record Poor Man’s Poem will be received by your fans? I think Americana fans appreciate and respect all kinds of roots music – blues, folk, honky tonk, bluegrass, outlaw country – So, although […]
After just one listen to Shawn Pittman’s Edge of The World (DeltaGroove, 5/17/11) I was immediately impressed with the band and Shawn’s selection of obscure blues covers. Luckily the folks at DeltaGroove had sent a physical disc which meant liner notes allowing me […]
