The Americana Music Association’s Honors & Awards show from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Wednesday evening was a love-filled evening for artists who have left us, and for those who continue to move us forward with their music. The “family reunion,” […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As we move into “spooky season,” we love a good ghost story, and Trapper Schoepp has a great one below. More stories on the theme of “Ghosts” are available in our Fall 2021 quarterly journal. Learn more […]
After being forced into an online-only format last year, the Americana Music Association’s AmericanaFest and Honors & Awards show are back in full force this year, albeit with some added precautions. The Honors & Awards show at the Ryman this […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Charley Crockett is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for September. Learn more about him and his new album, Music City USA (out today), in our feature story, and look for more from Crockett all month long. Charley […]
George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and later its folk counterpart, died this week at the age of 95. His inaugural jazz fest in 1954 became a template for such events for decades afterward, across genres. In […]
As music journalist Stephen Deusner points out in his captivating and insightful new book, Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers (Texas), “in crucial ways the Truckers have provided a rip-roaring soundtrack for a very […]
“I had to change my name to feel more like myself,” Rod Gator says from his home in Austin. He’s talking about his recent transformation from Rod Melancon, the name under which the bayou-bred rocker released all his previous […]
During the month of August, I spent exactly one night in my own bed. I don’t even know if you could call it that since I only slept for about three hours in between laundry, repacking my suitcase, and […]
Back in November, during the tension-riddled time between Election Day and Results Day, the guitar-wielding, Twitter-hot-take-firing Jason Isbell posted a bold claim on the bird app: “If Biden wins Georgia I’m gonna make a charity covers album of my favorite […]
There are lots of reasons, let’s hope, to look forward to 2022, and Aoife O’Donovan announced today she is adding another: a new solo album, titled Age of Apathy, coming out Jan. 21 on Yep Roc Records. Produced by […]
