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 […]
Ken Burns documentaries typically rely on scholars as narrators. Obviously, Burns’ crew couldn’t talk to a member of the 1908 Chicago Cubs, making the game’s historians the best sources for the 1994 series Baseball. Likewise, for a modern topic like […]
Early in the morning my sister and I drove south for about 90 minutes, picking up I-95 in New Jersey and eventually turning west. We pulled off the freeway and onto the surface streets of the Philadelphia neighborhood once touted […]
When Newport Folk Festival’s executive director Jay Sweet addressed the fans gathered at the Quad Stage at 5:35 p.m. on July 26, he said, “You’re the first people anywhere to ever hear these words: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome The […]
Now in its 20th year, AmericanaFest is celebrating in style. The first thing I noticed is, even more so than in previous years, the Americana Music Association taking its role as curator extremely seriously. They’ve done a superb job of […]
When Dylan Goldberger draws Merle Haggard as a guitar-strumming squirrel or Dolly Parton as a collie in a truck bed, rest assured it’s an act of tribute. For his new book of illustrations, Four Legs, Wings, and Six Strings, the […]
On Sept. 15, filmmaker Ken Burns’ series Country Music debuts on PBS stations around the country. The director, who has devoted his considerable attention to telling the stories of the national parks, the Civil War, baseball, and jazz in similar […]
