EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our current quarterly journal, featuring the best and most timely stories in roots music today. Buy the Winter 2022 issue in print or digitally here. Better yet, start a subscription with this issue […]
With COVID easing somewhat, the year was as close to back to normal as we are likely to get for some time, and many artists returned to the studio to record some stellar music. My favorites are listed below. […]
Hot on the heels of our annual Readers Poll, we checked in with No Depression’s staff and contributors to get their takes on the best roots music albums released in 2022. As usually happens, there’s only a little overlap between […]
In 1971, the long-haired rock and rollers of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — Jeff Hanna, John McEuen, Jimmie Fadden, Les Thompson, Jimmy Ibbotson — sat in a circle with legends of country and bluegrass music at Woodland Studio […]
As it was digitizing old student records, a school district in Winchester, Virginia, discovered a piece of country music history. In one of the files was an essay written by Patsy Cline when she was an eighth-grader at Gore […]
Many country songs evoke the persistent longing for place, for community, for belonging, but in many of those songs inclusion comes only through the exclusion of others. Although there are exceptions, country music has long excluded women, queers, and Black […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Adeem the Artist is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for December 2022. Along with the essay below, you can read our interview with them and watch an exclusive video of “Carolina” from their new album, White Trash Revelry, […]
This week 12 ND photographers, from New York to California, highlight the cream of the roots music crop released this year. Nearly all the artists are familiar names, especially to readers of this column, but you’ll also see a […]
After two years severely curtailed by COVID-19, the music industry got back to full speed in 2022, with busy touring schedules and a steady river of new roots music releases throughout the year. As we do every year, we asked […]
The Apple TV series Carpool Karaoke, which pairs celebrities for a ride peppered with songs, conversation, and always some surprises, dropped its fifth season last weekend, including an episode with members of Wilco and comedian Nikki Glaser filmed in […]
