Virginia old-time multi-instrumentalist Hobart Smith once called music “a thrill you just can’t express,” but banjoist Allison de Groot and percussive dancer Nic Gareiss convey something pretty close with their new visual album, The Thrill, out today on Bandcamp. […]
After 12 years in Steve Earle’s band, The Dukes, The Mastersons have decided to step away from that gig to seek a slower pace. “This past decade has seen us crisscrossing the globe endlessly, only pausing momentarily to make […]
Two-thirds of the way through her searing new autobiography, Maybe We’ll Make It (Texas), Margo Price shares the ways that music has transformed her pain — and Price has lived through more than her share of pain, especially losing one […]
Between AmericanaFest, the FreshGrass Festival (produced by No Depression‘s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation), and then the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual event and awards (including a Distinguished Achievement Award for the FreshGrass Foundation), September seemed to pass at hyper-speed […]
It hurts like a slap in the face with a coal shovel. Loretta Lynn has left us. She died in her sleep Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, at age 90, according to a statement from her […]
In the summer of 2020, I applied for The Common Good Masterclass for Artists hosted by Western States Center in Portland, Oregon. As a singer-songwriter with little experience with this sort of thing, I thought it was a long […]
This week bluegrass takes over the column, just days after the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual takeover of Raleigh, North Carolina, with its World of Bluegrass festival. The fest demonstrated two things to me: 1) bluegrass just keeps becoming […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Caleb Caudle is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for October 2022. Look for more about him and his new album, Forsythia, all month long. A sliver of the clearest, brightest blue sky peeks out from behind the […]
