There are a lot of jokes about modern country music. What can I say, it’s easy to make fun of a bunch of millionaires pretending to enjoy being on a farm when all they really want is to be in […]
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This year, as we have every year since 2004, we gave our readers the impossible task of choosing their 10 favorite roots music albums from among the year’s new releases. In 2020, as always, readers took up the challenge enthusiastically, […]
The International Bluegrass Music Association announced on its social media channels Saturday that iconic bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice passed away on Christmas Day at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was 69 years old. “Sometime during Christmas morning […]
Like any good collection of presents under the tree, this week’s Bonus Tracks is filled with little sparkly surprises we hope will bring at least a moment’s joy and entertainment to close out the year. Last weekend, Barack Obama released […]
Despite a few glimmers of hope in the last few weeks, 2020 nevertheless continues to lurch and shuffle like the infamous twirling black-clad figure that leads the line dance of death in The Seventh Seal. As the year staggers toward […]
Right under the wire, Congress has passed a bill authorizing $900 billion in aid to individuals and businesses as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to run rampant in America. Much has been made of the measure’s direct payments to individuals — […]
With COVID-19 wrecking the live music scene this year, recorded music became an even larger presence in our lives, providing solace to many during our respective solitudes. This week, 13 ND photographers select the cream of roots music albums that […]
In a year when everything was upended and scary, No Depression readers reached eagerly, and perhaps understandably, for what’s familiar. Topping our 2020 Year-End Readers Poll, which received more than 6,800 ballots, were new albums from roots music’s current leading […]
In my last column, I looked at three artists who were using very different methods of crowdfunding during the pandemic. As I researched one of those, the pay-per-view “tour” by Over the Rhine, I found a number of other artists […]
With touring forced to a halt in 2020, artists found themselves with time on their hands, and the creative spirit stops for no virus. Many musicians channeled their energies into cover songs as they waited things out at home, playing […]
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