EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is from our Summer 2020 print issue, “Tools of the Trade.” The print edition is sold out, but you can purchase the digital version here to read more great stories like this one. Start a digital […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Bright Eyes is No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2020. Read our feature story about the band and their new album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, here, and read multi-instrumentalist Nate Walcott’s essay […]
I can’t think of anything in my lifetime that has fundamentally changed the music business as much as COVID-19 has. Napster would likely be the next most explosive, but even that was nothing like the effective shutdown of the […]
Life moves pretty fast, a wise prophet once said. And sometimes it’s hard to make time to look around. But at No Depression we’ve always got our eyes open for what’s useful, interesting, or just delightfully weird in the […]
No American roots musician is the subject of more myth, mystery, discussion, and debunking than bluesman Robert Johnson. Some still whisper that he learned his powerful playing technique through a deal with the devil — even though this is […]
Sylvie Simmons’ new album, Blue on Blue, teems with movement: coming and going, looking and finding, finding and losing, loving and dancing. Every song paints a picture, sometimes splashing colors across a taut canvas of life, other times painting […]
The Fisk Jubilee Singers didn’t plan to release an album of Negro spirituals* and politically current songs about treating strangers with kindness in the middle of the Black Lives Matter protests — it just worked out that way. Celebrating […]
A year or so ago, I pulled my red Subaru wagon, packed to the brim with bandmates and gear, into the parking lot of a grungy looking club in a small Wisconsin city. I was on a tour of […]
A social media post on Justin Townes Earle’s artist pages Sunday evening stated that the singer-songwriter has passed away at 38 years old. The statement remained brief, concisely informing fans and followers “of the passing of our son, husband, father […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bright Eyes is No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2020. Read our feature story about the band — Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott — and their new album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World […]
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