It was a rumor, it was an Instagram post, and then it was real: A supergroup of Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby — The Highwomen — has formed and is making its debut with a fiery […]
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Submitting a weekly column to No Depression and getting to write about music has never been what I considered hard work. Given the latitude to cover basically whatever pops into my mind rather than being assigned a topic, it’s rarely […]
Early in April 2014, Delbert McClinton was headed down to play a show in St. Augustine, Florida. He’d just returned from Austin, where his son, Clay, lay in a coma that doctors had induced to heal the brain trauma Clay […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tui — the old-time duo of Jake Blount and Libby Weitnauer — is No Depression’s Spotlight band for July 2019. Read more about them in our feature story here, and watch a video of them performing “Went Up […]
I am sure that you have been in this situation before. You have two friends and you love them both, but for almost completely different reasons. Taken individually, there’s no problem, but you worry about how it’d feel to see […]
The rattling in my chest started at a show. Steve Poltz, Joe Pisapia, John Strohm, and I were playing “in the round” at The Basement East in Nashville. The show was great but at a point late in the set […]
It’s been a busy year for roots music releases, in terms of both quantity and quality. Now that we’re just past the halfway point of the year, we wanted to pause, take a breath, and appreciate all the good stuff […]
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” — Hunter S. Thompson My wife and I were […]
As Tui, Jake Blount and Libby Weitnauer play songs that capture the rich diversity of old-time music and that tell stories of real people and real struggles. To find songs for their new album, Pretty Little Mister, they looked for […]
Sometime in late 1965 or early 1966, a slogan spray-painted on a wall in London proclaimed: “Clapton is God.” Although he later said he was embarrassed by the slogan, Clapton’s fluid guitar riffs across a range of styles revealed his […]
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