Jason Samuel is a regular attendee at the Americana Music Association Conference in Nashville every year. When I’ve seen him there, I’ve always appreciated his enthusiasm for the music and for radio. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in […]
There’s not a more joyful, blissful album that embraces the perils of winter, the vagaries of loss, and the ominous underbelly of looking-back-wistfully than Birds of Chicago’s latest, Real Midnight. Songwriter JT Nero captures the dark underbelly of our happiness, and the […]
Change is constant, and those best able to adapt to change are most likely to survive. Two musician/producers both named Paul Brown are rolling with the changes and proving baby boom-era types can create relevant Americana music today. “Dusty Road” […]
Freda Love Smith didn’t exactly set out to write a memoir about food and music, but by the time she’d finished casting about for ingredients for her book in her soul kitchen, she’d cooked up an entertaining set of stories […]
Rachel Ries is celebrating her birthday this month and will be doing so, whilst on a UK tour to promote her new four song EP Cardinal. This quartet of songs was written during a writing retreat, last summer in Rouen, […]
Savannah, Georgia is a town resplendent with charm. The pre-war parks and dripping Spanish moss make it the perfect setting for the strolling pedestrian. And perhaps this is why Savannah Stopover, the annual festival pit-stop anteceding the music industry’s Roman […]
We spent last weekend camped at Newell Lodge, in a grove of majestic live oaks in the piney woods of South Georgia, where logging for pulp, wood chips, and lumber dominates the economy. This small festival grounds contains about 100 water/electric […]
We talk a lot about the balance of tradition and innovation here at No Depression and within the FreshGrass Foundation. The balance and blend of those two things is what, we believe, makes this music we love so vibrant and […]
The Truth About Sarah Shook. The truth about Sarah Shook is that I can’t write about her. I’ve tried for 4 months to come up with something I can tell you that will explain how special she is or how much we […]
Arlo Guthrie, a beloved folksinger, songwriter and storyteller, has been touring for more than a year commemorating the 50th anniversary of the real-life events that inspired his most iconic song, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” Two recent releases will allow Guthrie fans […]
