Since 1986, Greil Marcus has written a column called “Real Life Rock Top 10.” Each month, he explains his “top ten” takes on music, film, TV, art, politics, fiction, and nonfiction, and with his scattershot firing from the hip, he […]
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Toward the end of Lyle Lovett’s new album, 12th of June, comes “Are We Dancing,” a lushly orchestrated tune that evokes young lovers sweeping across a ballroom floor in a Golden Age movie. It’s romantic and grand, sounding like […]
This week is not only a double festival treat but also a contrast in genres and locales. Country Thunder Arizona is one of seven country music festivals put on by Country Thunder Music Festivals in the United States and […]
What is roots music? You would think that No Depression, of all places, could answer that question unanimously. But conversations with my fellow writers and columnists over the years have confirmed that while there is a basic thread of agreement, […]
It’s been a loooooong week as I try to get back in the swing of real life after four days at MerleFest in western North Carolina. This was my 21st year at the fest, and as always, it brought […]
This year we’ll have at least three books about Bob Dylan, one by the inscrutable Nobel Prize winner himself. We’ll have to wait until November for Dylan’s own The Philosophy of Modern Song (ND story) and October for cultural critic […]
Every month, the No Depression team compiles a list of our favorite songs from the month’s new releases. April offered albums we loved by Joshua Hedley (who performed an outstanding, acoustic rendition of “Old Heartbroke Blues” at Robert’s Western World for […]
More so than at any other festival I attend every year, something happens at MerleFest that spurs me to thinking about tradition: what it is, what it means, and where it’s going. Perhaps it is no coincidence that those […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Brennen Leigh is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for May 2022. Look for more about Leigh and her new album, Obsessed With the West, out this Friday on Signature Sounds, all month long. When Brennen Leigh was […]
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