“I’d been singing for years, but almost no one knew about it. In the country, first on the plantation where we lived and worked, then later, after we’d moved to Belzoni but still hired ourselves out during harvest time, I’d […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarah Jarosz is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for June 2020. Read more about her and her new album, World on the Ground, in our feature story, and stay tuned for more all month long. World on the […]
Amid cuts announced Tuesday at American Public Media comes news that music-focused variety show Live From Here with Chris Thile — the follow-up to A Prairie Home Companion — has been canceled. Chris Thile, who took over A Prairie Home […]
Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, John Prine, Tanya Tucker, Yola, Our Native Daughters, The Highwomen, Buddy & Julie Miller, Billy Strings, Tyler Childers, Black Pumas, Brittany Haas, and Kelsey Waldon lead a diverse group of artists in the 2020 AmericanaFest nominations. […]
When my dad was born in 1919, music that was performed by black people was released on 78 rpm discs and called “race records.” It was a designation of multiple genres, including blues, jazz, and spirituals. By the time I […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. In early March, as COVID-19 was causing havoc in Washington state, a choir got together […]
Over the past few years, a few writers have been down to the crossroads of art and commerce to try to find Robert Johnson, amid especially contentious conversations about the few photographs we have of the legendary bluesman. Last year, […]
In preparing this week’s column I asked myself, with the turmoil that’s going on all around us, what’s the point? What’s the use? But the turmoil has always been there, right beneath the surface, underneath the politeness, civility, fear, and […]
This is a column that almost wasn’t. In the wake of the past week of protests and calls for racial justice, it almost felt frivolous to me to write about crowdfunding music projects. But as I spent the week processing […]
If you happened to look at social media on Tuesday, June 2, you might have seen that major corporations, celebrities, activists, artists, musicians, athletes, a current president’s daughter, and a whole bunch of regular folks had posted a big black […]
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