Back in 1965, I was a 13-year-old kid growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia who loved country music. We had our own local station all the way down on the right side of the AM dial, and on Saturday […]
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Some listeners these days like their concerts to be politics-free zones. They want the shows they attend to be entertaining, and they’re there for the music; they leave their political debates at the door to the venue, and they won’t […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2018 print issue “(im)migration.” 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 journalism, […]
Folk Alliance International has always held a particular fascination for me, beginning with the word “folk,” a term that was once more broadly used than “Americana” is today. It’s the word we used to describe roots music. In response to […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Drive-By Truckers are No Depression‘s Spotlight band for January 2020. Read our feature about the Truckers and their new album, The Unraveling, here. “I think we clocked in 85 hours in the studio that week making the record,” says Patterson […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. once called Mahalia Jackson his favorite singer. She was with him before and after he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Washington Memorial on August 28, 1963. King asked her to sing the […]
The 11th annual 30A Songwriters Festival wrapped on Monday, after five days and nights of a diverse array of songwriter-centered music, spread across 36 venues along a scenic highway on Florida’s panhandle. Though 30A does the big-stage-in-a-field thing that many […]
While 2019 was a stellar year for roots music, by taking a look at what’s coming down the pike in next couple of weeks, 2020 just might be even better. Below are six albums that have been in constant rotation […]
“Can this be an article where we don’t say ‘supergroup’?” asks Josh Kaufman, teasingly. “Say it in air quotes,” adds Eric D. Johnson, Kaufman’s bandmate, along with Anaïs Mitchell, in their new project, Bonny Light Horseman. Though they cringe at […]
As I write this column, one of the last (if not THE last) Best of 2019 polls has just come out, the Nashville Scene Country Music Critic’s Poll, which included a couple of No Depression columnists in the voting. Like […]
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