Pokey LaFarge’s new album, Rock Bottom Rhapsody (out today on New West Records), describes some pretty dark moments. The songs welled up at a time when LaFarge was battling some intense personal demons, even though it was only later that […]
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I had a recollection this week from when I was 12 or 13 years old. Some details, such as it being a cool night on a dark street in the Oxford Circle neighborhood of Philadelphia, are crisp, clear, and sharply […]
When John Prine sang of “Paradise,” an Americana concept became a real and present truth. He wrote the song for his father, who was reared in the pastoral confines of Western Kentucky coal country. But he sang it for my […]
After nine days in intensive care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, John Prine passed away at the age of 73 due to complications from COVID-19. Last weekend, he was intubated to assist his breathing, and family members and […]
The great thing about recorded music, especially in these self-isolating, stay-at-home, quarantined days and nights, is that you can listen to it whenever and however you want. Whether it be while fixing dinner, doing the laundry, or lounging around in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the debut of our new monthly column, Roots in the Archive. Each month, Stephen Winick, writer and editor for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and editor of their blog, Folklife Today, will […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pokey LaFarge is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for April 2020. Tune in all month long for more from LaFarge and his new album, Rock Bottom Rhapsody, out April 10. When Pokey LaFarge picks up the phone in […]
Perhaps if my kids were a few years younger they might be asking their old man if he’s ever seen anything like this in his lifetime. The daily death count; world shutdown; deserted streets in Manhattan, Paris, and Rome; refrigerated […]
Back in 1994, Laurie Garrett, the health and science reporter for Newsday, wrote a book titled The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance (FSG). While she didn’t predict the novel coronavirus that is now spreading […]
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