The morning the Americana Honors & Awards nominations were announced I was reading Manohla Dargis’ piece in The New York Times on Agnès Varda, the influential film director who had just passed away. Varda, who directed some of the most […]
0
When Ken Burns’ eight-episode docuseries Country Music debuts on Sept. 15, the first story told will not take place in Texas or Tennessee. Instead, the series’ in-depth look at the genre’s roots begins in downtown Atlanta, where Okeh Records’ Ralph […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story by Caryn Rose in our Summer 2019 print issue “Folk.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, available for pre-order here. And please consider supporting No Depression with […]
Beginning in the 18th century, immigrants from Britain, Scotland, and Ireland made their way across the ocean and into the backwoods and mountains of America. They brought with them their customs, culture, and music, which included both ballads and reels. […]
In 1962, the legendary George Wein, who had produced the Newport Jazz Festival, was invited to New Orleans to create a similar jazz festival. As he writes in the foreword to the stunning new book and 5-CD box set Jazz […]
I’ve eaten three fried-bologna sandwiches in my lifetime, each of them in Illinois. The first was in Diane Rhodes’ apartment at the Samuel Gompers Homes, the oldest public housing development in East St. Louis. Rhodes’ teenage son, Tommie Liddell Jr., […]
The 2019 nominees for the Americana Honors & Awards were announced today, with a strong female flavor in most categories (none for Instrumentalist of the Year to follow up Molly Tuttle’s win last year, though, cough cough). Also notably, Dave […]
The Through the Lens column has featured artists on the verge as selected by ND photographers twice before, and as the last was about a year and a half ago, it’s high time I did it again. The thesis being that since ND photographers […]
Like most fans, I got a kick out of The Milk Carton Kids’ send-up of Americana’s “big tent” philosophy at last year’s AMA Awards Show with their song “What Even Is Americana Anyway?” But I’ve never really had a problem […]
UPDATE: At the end of July 2019, PledgeMusic.com was taken down and replaced with the following message: A winding up order was made against Pledgemusic.com Limited in the High Court of Justice on 31 July 2019. As a result of […]
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
SUBSCRIBE NOW
SUBSCRIBE NOW
