EDITOR’S NOTE: Sam Bush is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for November 2022. Learn more about him and his new album, Radio John: Songs of John Hartford, in our Spotlight interview. When Sam Bush set about selecting songs for […]
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted its class of 2022 this week, including Dolly Parton, despite her initial objections. Ever the good sport, Parton not only attended the ceremony but gave a speech and performed decked out […]
Two banjo players have joined the ranks of those honored with the prestigious Steve Martin Banjo Prize, now in its 12th year. Actor and musician Martin and the board of the banjo prize named Bill Evans and Enda Scahill […]
It’s the final day of Folk Music Ontario — a four-day festival and conference celebrating the folk traditions of Canada’s most populous province — and singer-songwriter Dan Mangan has arrived from the opposite side of the country with just […]
This week the column is staying in Appalachia for two recently founded roots music festivals: Healing Appalachia in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and the White Rose Music Fest in York, Pennsylvania. Despite having different origins, the fests shared a couple […]
Most teenagers don’t take kindly to musical suggestions from their dad, but when Seth Avett’s father suggested he listen to a song by Greg Brown he’d recently heard on public radio’s Prairie Home Companion, Avett paid attention. The song […]
Nashville. Austin. Laurel Canyon. Muscle Shoals. All places that come to mind when you think about roots music. The well-worn stories of artists packing up their dreams and heading to Nashville persist, though modern technology has rendered that journey […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt is producing and hosting Sing Out NC, an election-time concert outside Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina, on Nov. 6 advocating for reproductive rights and featuring local artists including Alice Gerrard, Rissi Palmer, H.C. […]
Open today in theaters nationwide, The Return of Tanya Tucker is a documentary following Tucker as she partnered with Brandi Carlile to get back to songwriting, recording, and the stage after many thought the country legend’s career was more […]
This should be an easy review to write, right? Here beside me is Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song (Simon & Schuster), his long-awaited new book, and the first since the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize for […]
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