I’ve recently discovered a new diet. Each evening when I get home from work I put on the television, turn to Fox News, watch Tucker Carlson for five minutes, and then completely lose my appetite. To be fair, while I […]
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In June 1967, a young singer and her band took the stage at the Monterey Pop Festival. It was Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company’s first large-scale public performance, but her performances riveted the crowd and introduced […]
As festival season winds down we are most fortunate to have Peter Dervin once again covering San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Founded by private equity investor and banjoist Warren Hellman in 2001, this year the free festival reckoned with what […]
You could fill hours of airtime with a retelling of Dolly Parton’s life story. Maybe you’d start with her childhood in the Smoky Mountains, where she was one of 12 children in a family that struggled to make ends meet. […]
The question I’m asked most often by readers of this column is “How do you find all of these bands?” Often, these questions are from the artists themselves, curious what dirt road off the information superhighway led me to them. […]
Showcasing your songs under the bright lights is a great part of the life of a professional musician. But it’s when singer-songwriter Anna Tivel is offstage, perhaps in a dark corner of a theater or bar she just played, that […]
If you’ve followed my articles and columns at No Depression through the past ten-plus years, you likely know that I have a special place in my heart for Moby Grape. When an argument breaks out about the genesis of Americana […]
Michaela Anne always has a book near, whether she’s at home or out on tour. A lifelong reader, she says that her reading informs her songwriting and that her new album grew out of at least two books — one […]
As our feature story on October 2019 Spotlight artist Kelsey Waldon explains, her new album, White Lines/White Noise, has a lot to do with “home” — in many senses of the word. On the song “Kentucky, 1988,” it’s home in […]
There has been a quiet revolution going on. It’s one that music fans have been aware of for some time, but the gatekeepers not so much. As evidenced by a recent Instagram tag, some have called it “The Highwomen Movement.” […]
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