Have you ever been to fiddle camp? I’m not talking about high school orchestra camp, with its scratchy uniforms and mandated practice hours. I’m talking about hide out in the woods, laugh until you cry, stay up all night […]
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I always get excited when I get the opportunity to share with ND readers new albums that I find enticing. This theme for this week’s column could be third time’s the charm, as three artists — Sierra Ferrell, Maggie Rose, […]
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival pulled the plug on its plans for a 2021 event, scheduled for October, due to rising COVID-19 cases in the city. “As a result of the current exponential growth of new COVID […]
If you’re of a certain age, you remember when MTV played … music … and how those videos that your mom probably didn’t want you watching were absolutely formative to your later music fandom. There are a whole bunch of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jade Bird is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for August 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Different Kinds of Light, coming Aug. 13, all month long. Jade Bird has only recently gotten comfortable with […]
The legendary Newport Folk Festival approached this summer’s event with a safer, more intimate experience. It expanded from three days to six in order to accommodate smaller crowds at each stage. Dubbed “Folk On,” the festival brought founder Pete […]
Since my last column, the initial lineup for AmericanaFest was released and, as I have done every time I’ve previewed the festival for various outlets since 2010, I emphasize just how international AmericanaFest, and Americana itself, really is. While […]
Lydia Jacoby has been one of the headline names to emerge from the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The 17-year-old from Seward, Alaska, won a gold medal in swimming this week after a thrilling upset in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Yola, No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for July 2021, shares some of her favorite behind-the-scenes moments from this year’s Newport Folk Festival in words and photos. Read our interview with Yola about her new album, Stand for Myself […]
Keeping up a steady beat, the great Memphis drummer Howard Grimes drives hypnotic storytelling in his new memoir, Howard Grimes, Timekeeper: My Life in Rhythm (Devault Graves Books), written with the superb Memphis journalist and music historian Preston Lauterbach. The […]
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