In the song “Me and Paul,” Willie Nelson immortalized his beloved friend and long-time drummer Paul English in lines such as “we received our education / In the cities of the nation, me and Paul.” Now, Nelson lets readers in […]
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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 Fall 2022 issue in print or digitally here. Better yet, start a subscription with this […]
As the calendar turns to October, the roots music festival season begins to wind down, so what better way to celebrate what the year 2022 has brought than to head west and visit the largest, most encompassing free festival […]
The first modern era crowdfunding campaign is widely agreed to be from British progressive rockers Marillion, who, after their label refused to fund an American tour in 1997, got their fans to pony up in advance and bring the […]
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 […]
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