EDITOR’S NOTE: As our Spring 2021 print journal lands in the world, we wanted to share Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ opening letter reflecting on the issue’s theme, “The Great American Songbook.” We invite you to dive into the issue’s 100+ pages […]
You’ve got to check out this video of John Prine explaining why he named his record label “Oh Boy” when he and his manager started it 40 years ago. The clip is from a new documentary to mark the […]
On April 9, Merry Clayton will release a new album titled Beautiful Scars. It’s her first studio album since 1994’s Miracles, but more importantly the new album allows her to testify about her gratitude for her miraculous recovery from a […]
It’s been a year since this column first explored the benefits of vinyl records and noted some analog resources. During the intervening year we’ve seen such an explosion in LP sales that for the first time in 30 years vinyl […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Aaron Lee Tasjan is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for February 2021. Read our feature story about him and his new album, Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!, and watch his video for the song “Not That Bad” made just for […]
Dolly Parton, man. No matter how much bad is going on in the world, she always shines through with pure good. Her home state of Tennessee wanted to honor that with a plan to put up a statue of […]
John Trudell, the legendary Native American poet, activist, and musician, likened Elvis Presley to the “Baby boom Che” in his poem about the rock-and-roll icon. Elvis “showed us an out,” Trudell writes, from the “psychotic pall.” He showed “everyboyman […]
One of the most riveting scenes in American literature is the threshing floor episode in James Baldwin’s novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. The young protagonist, John Grimes, writhes on the floor of his father’s church, surrounded by the […]
It’s been a while since this column featured the story and photographs of one of our contributing photographers, but my New Year’s resolution is to do that more frequently in 2021. Just as a photograph tells a story, every photographer […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay, which first appeared as a thread on singer-songwriter Karen Pittelman’s Twitter account (@kandthesorrows) last week, addresses the “not who we are” reactions after country radio star Morgan Wallen was seen on video using a racial […]
