Missing from this year’s Americana Music Awards & Honors show in Nashville last week was longtime host Jim Lauderdale. For many years, Lauderdale, flashing his wry grin, would shout out the familiar cry, “Now, that’s Americana!” when an act finished […]
Barring any storm, fire, earthquake, malaria outbreak, tooth impaction, gall bladder attack, transit strike, fall, cut, bruise, forgetfulness, or worse, by the time you read this I’ll likely have had the pleasure of attending the Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman […]
Next year the Americana Music Association will turn 20. Since that first meeting of 30 or 40 folks, the music that goes by the label “Americana” flourishes, continuing to find listeners engaged by its freeform style. Americana music now has […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression‘s monthly Spotlight program aims to get to know a band/artist a bit better. Earlier this month we brought you a feature story about September’s Spotlight band, The Black Lillies, and now we have an essay from […]
On the heels of accepting the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award at the Americana Honors and Awards in Nashville, Rosanne Cash today announced her new album, She Remembers Everything with the release of two new songs, “She Remembers Everything” and […]
Canadian singer/songwriter Jennifer Holub’s sophomore album The Reckoning was conceived as a feminist call to arms, but the title also suggests a more literall meaning of punishment. That notion definitely comes through on the new single “Way Out” and its […]
No Depression has a seemingly subtle, yet extraordinarily important relationship with the FreshGrass Festival — an annual bluegrass and roots music festival that takes place at the Mass MoCA contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. The presenting organization, the […]
“More Blood, More Tracks.” It sounds like the title of a grindhouse movie that might feature hunting. However, it is the name of perhaps the most hotly anticipated box set so far in Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series. That series […]
As of today, I will have been to 26 of the 50 states in this country (that’s a majority, for you mathematicians out there). I’ve seen a fair few music cities and music communities in my time touring, and as […]
Artists taking a record they made 50 years ago out on the road today, even those as revered as Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, could be taking a risk. No matter how iconic the record, even a classic like Sweetheart […]
