EDITOR’S NOTE: We asked Buddy and Julie Miller, No Depression’s Spotlight artists for June 2019, for an essay letting us in on their lives as their new album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South — their first album together in a […]
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Best known for his pop standard “Cruel to Be Kind” and his pensive anthem “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding,” Nick Lowe remains a bit of an enigma. He’s a hard-working, ceaselessly inventive songwriter and a first-rate musician, […]
Have you ever wondered how a music collaboration works? What it sounds like? What it looks like? In this week’s column, our Scottish correspondent and my number one AmericanaFest partner-in-crime Carol Graham takes an in-depth look at just that. She […]
The No Depression Singer-Songwriter Award, in conjunction with the FreshGrass Festival, is now in its third year, and every year the submissions blow us away. We get songs submitted from both coasts and a whole lot of places in between, […]
Between his own shows, recording sessions, and collaborations with countless other people, Jim Lauderdale is a busy guy. But every day he makes time to step away from it all — preferably outside, but anywhere quiet will do — to […]
It’s a few days before Father’s Day and I’m sitting at a long wooden table at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, on the grounds of Lincoln Center. A 16-acre campus of theaters and concert venues, it […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Mark Erelli is an observer at heart, writing songs about the big issues in today’s world (“By Degrees,” his song about gun violence, division, and more, is nominated for the Americana Music Awards Song of the […]
The Nelsonville Music Festival in Southeast Ohio was “discovered” a couple years ago, not just by the public, but also by the media — the number of outlets covering it has doubled during that time. To celebrate 15 years of […]
WARNING: This review contains some spoilers. Please save it for later if you would prefer to see the movie first. “Life isn’t about finding yourself, or finding anything. It’s about creating yourself.” — Bob Dylan Life is a carnival. However, […]
Ever since Mariee Sioux released her 2007 debut album, Faces in the Rocks, people have been telling the 34-year-old singer-songwriter how much her music has helped them reconnect with lost parts of themselves. Sioux inherited the musicianship of her Polish-Hungarian […]
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