EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarah Harmer is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for February 2020. Stay tuned all month long for more from Harmer and her new album, Are You Gone, out Feb. 21. “Are you gone?” is a question many […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarah Harmer is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for February 2020. Stay tuned all month long for more from Harmer and her new album, Are You Gone, out Feb. 21. “Are you gone?” is a question many […]
In a very familiar scene from Cameron Crowe’s film Almost Famous, the rock critic Lester Bangs, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, warns the aspiring young critic William Miller (Crowe’s alter ego): “I’m tellin’ you, you’re coming along at a very […]
This week’s column highlights an under-represented and under-appreciated branch of roots music: jazz. Perhaps it’s viewed as having more of an urban vibe as opposed to invoking the dusty backroads, barrooms, or juke joints of rural America. What most folks […]
The thing that first drew me to roots music was the storytelling. That’s probably not surprising considering my roots indoctrination came in an English class, when my professor introduced us to John Prine, arguably one of the best storytellers in […]
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