Now that the sprawling Ken Burns series Country Music has finally begun making its way across the airwaves and revealing facets of the music and its industry that may be new to many, it’s a good time to revisit some […]
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When I was putting together my album art for this new record, Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne, I’d done a series of photographs with Neilson Hubbard in my backyard. Un-made up, my hair unbrushed, wearing a gray T-shirt and […]
Every big city is the same to me. There is an abundance of concrete, lots of traffic, tourist attractions, and the ability to get anything you want at all hours of the day. Moscow has all of that plus faster […]
“Jason Isbell told me, ‘One thing you have to understand about about Amanda [Shires], she’s a butterfly from outer space.’” — Brandi Carlile at the Americana Music Honors & Awards Show While Amanda Shires was certainly the object of much […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2019 print issue “Folk.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, available here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music […]
There are many reasons why an established artist might choose to crowdfund an album. I’ve explored some of these in past columns, and they include wanting to keep their own masters, performing something different than what you’re known for, and […]
Somewhere between waking and dreaming Patti Smith wanders, extolling the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, puncturing the ballooning apathy of American culture following the 2016 presidential election, and looking back on, and gazing forward into, times marked by loss and measured […]
Don’t miss the red carpet photo gallery from ND’s Amos Perrine at the bottom of this post! “We are all given a gift to touch the world,” said the War & Treaty’s Michael Trotter as he and his wife, Tanya […]
“Someone once said to me if you want to write about the war, write about the soldier,” says singer-songwriter Amy Speace from her Nashville home. On Speace’s eighth solo album, Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne, she writes about […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Singer-songwriter Tim Easton is visiting and playing music in Russia this month with the Forum for Cultural Engagement, in conjunction with the US State Department. This is the first of four weekly dispatches for No Depression on the people he […]
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