The family of the late, great John Prine has announced a weeklong series of concerts and events in his honor this fall. You Got Gold: Celebrating the Life & Songs of John Prine will take place at multiple locations […]
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“Mickey Newbury simply sang with soul ablaze. After all, the long-time Nashville-based singer, a criminally overlooked artist during his lifetime but his generation’s most successful songwriter, owned an otherworldly tenor demanding fire from deepest depths.” So writes Brian T. Atkinson […]
The Americana Honors & Awards nomination process must have been especially difficult this year, as the Americana Music Association’s 3,000 members (of which I am one) had to consider projects released during the usual eligibility period — April 1 through […]
The pandemic may have brought touring to a halt in the past year, but the music has gone right on, and the Americana Honors and Awards seek to recognize the cream of the crop, just as they have for […]
For Shannon McNally, it was one thing to think about making her next album a Waylon Jennings tribute, but another thing entirely to actually move forward with the plan. Few figures in the history of country music loom larger […]
Nothing says “Americana” like cowboy culture, and we’ve got a rich vein of it at the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. We have cowboy songs galore from Texas, documentation of buckaroo life in Nevada, and other […]
Internet crowdfunding was born when British prog-rockers Marillion found their label unwilling to fund a tour of the United States. Their solution was to cut the label out of the process and go directly to their fans to fund […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Allison Russell is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for May 2021. Her debut solo album, Outside Child, is out today on Fantasy Records. Read our interview with her and watch a video performance of her song “Nightflyer” made […]
Legendary music executive Clive Davis threw a party last weekend, and instead of hiring a band for entertainment, he did a live interview … with none other than Joni Mitchell! The virtual party, which raised money for the Grammy […]
Just a few weeks in the wake of announcing a change to the band name they’d been using since forming in North Carolina over a decade ago, Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin, now Watchhouse, have announced a new album. Watchhouse […]
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