Just months before legendary country group The Judds were set to reunite for their final “The Final Tour,” publicity group 2911 Media confirmed that matriarch Naomi Judd passed away on Saturday, April 30 at the age of 76. Details […]
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Just days after the band announced a 20th anniversary reissue of its iconic fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco returns with a brand new song and album announcement: Cruel Country, a double LP, is due out May 27 via the band’s […]
From 1979 to 1984, Mark Hembree played bass with Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys. In his new memoir, On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year-Ride with the Father of Blue Grass (Illinois), he tells cracking good stories […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As MerleFest gets rolling this week in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, we thought we’d share part of this story from our Spring 2022 “General Admission” journal about its history and why it’s so important to the performers who […]
Home during the pandemic, Patty Griffin fell down a rabbit hole. First, while relearning some of her old songs with the help of streaming services, she came across a collection of “rarities” and “deep cuts” compiled, she suspects, “by […]
Western North Carolina-based modern bluegrassers Steep Canyon Rangers announced today that singer, guitarist, and songwriter Woody Platt is leaving the band after 23 years. The moves comes from a desire to step away from touring and stay closer to […]
It is good to have MerleFest back in its normal time slot; mid-spring in North Carolina is a lovely time of the year. With it comes this column’s recommendations on artists who are making their MerleFest debuts and thus […]
In 2019, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi released There Is No Other. In addition to being a great album (ND review), it’s also as concise a mission statement for Giddens’ life work as there can be. Throughout her career […]
Alison Bonaguro is a country music fan who’s lived the life that every country music fan dreams about. She’s shared moments backstage after shows, in bars until closing time, and in hotel lobbies waiting for early morning airport shuttles […]
The FreshGrass Foundation — the nonprofit organization that publishes No Depression — has had sustainability at its heart from the very beginning, but Earth Day seems like a good time to bring you up to date with some of […]
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