By Kim Ruehl One of the most memorable shows I ever saw in Seattle was Corb Lund at the Sunset Tavern. It was a dark and rainy night (aren’t they all?) and Zoe Muth was opening. There were maybe 10 people […]
By Hearth Music Here at No Depression we hear all the time about music being passed on from generation to generation, but there’s something really exciting about actually watching this happen. This is part of the wonderful story behind Smithsonian Folkways‘ […]
By Lee Zimmerman Dang if those Brits don’t have a handle on our homespun traditions. Just look at how the Stones and Led Zep refurbished the Blues, or how Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and Robert Plant took to Country music […]
Six months after their previous show in Brighton, the Americana Music Awards nominees (Emerging Artist category) the Deep Dark Woods made a welcome return to the city. Advance ticket sales suggested that this was going to be a sell out […]
As readers may gather from previous reviews, I have a conflicted relationship with country music. I love the guitar-based sound, two-step rhythms, and well-worn themes of heartbreak and hard-living. That said, I have a really hard time with what contemporary […]
I first met Colm O’Herlihy at The Slaughtered Lamb in London. I’ve got a beer in my hand while he and Chelsea Crowell are standing there with guitars, about to play a gig. Ms. Crowell had told me months before […]
There is a special love which can only come when an artist’s songs and lyrics touch you so deeply, you have to participate somehow in the flow of the music. Dancers will want to dance, poets will want to write, […]
The Fate & The Fruit is the sophomore album from Screen Door Porch, a Wyoming duo who are making a name for themselves with a unique brand of atmospheric folk roots. The album is permeated, for the most part, with a […]
Mention of folk music almost inevitably leads to discussion of protest songs with the folk form almost exclusively linked to the notion of expressing political or social concerns in song. On this latest release from Karine Polwart, doyen of Scots […]
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