Folk Alliance International bestowed its Best of 2021 awards as well as a new batch of lifetime achievement and other honors Wednesday evening on the first day of its conference being held in Kansas City. Allison Russell won Artist […]
Folk Alliance International bestowed its Best of 2021 awards as well as a new batch of lifetime achievement and other honors Wednesday evening on the first day of its conference being held in Kansas City. Allison Russell won Artist […]
At the beginning of April, I flew out to Portland, Oregon, for a couple of weeks to attend the mixing sessions for my new record with engineer and producer Tucker Martine. In some ways, it felt like the most […]
First held in 1970, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is more than a music festival, it is a celebration of music, crafts, culture and food. It is a spicy stew comprised of many distinct cultures: African American, […]
Delbert McClinton sets the record straight in the succinct, to-the-point manner that has always been a hallmark of the American music great’s lyrics. “I’m retired, but I’m not retired from music,” the 81-year-old Texas native says from his Nashville home. […]
The Americana Music Association announced the nominees for its 2022 awards Monday afternoon in a ceremony live from the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. The nominees result from voting from AMA members and honor music released […]
Somewhere in your home there’s probably a junk drawer housing your onetime constant companion, your iPod. The first iPod, in 2001, promised “1,000 songs in your pocket,” which absolutely blew our minds. Over the next two decades, Apple would […]
Back in October, the FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression’s nonprofit publisher) announced an impressive collaboration with Silkroad — the multifaceted organization aimed at musical and cultural collaboration founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Today, Silkroad’s main programming initiative, the Silkroad Ensemble, […]
Who knew that Bob Dylan was such a hoarder? Until 2016, when details about the contents of his personal archives began to emerge, it’s unlikely that even the most ravenous Dylan scholars had any idea of just how much […]
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 […]
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 […]
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