Zach Bryan was hating on Ticketmaster before Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen fans made it cool. And he hates them a lot — so much that he titled his new album, recorded live at Red Rocks and surprise-released on […]
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Chuck Berry’s straight-ahead bluesy, rhythmic romps “Sweet Little Sixteen,” “Johnny B. Goode,” and “Maybellene” lie deep in the DNA of American popular music. A savvy entrepreneur, Berry cannily cashed in on the shift in musical styles from rhythm and blues […]
“Roots music” is often used to describe different styles of American music. The mind jumps to the American South, or to the folk lyricism of acoustic artists like John Prine or (the Minnesotan) Bob Dylan. That is not completely […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pony Bradshaw is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for January 2023. Read more about Bradshaw and his new album, North Georgia Rounder, out Jan. 27, all month long. On Pony Bradshaw’s North Georgia Rounder, the landscape is as […]
Just as they did 60+ years ago during the initial roots music revival, many today feel that rock and roll is the anthesis of roots music. To the contrary, it is the synthesis of roots music. Rock is the […]
There’s an old real estate slogan that says the most important thing in property sales is “location, location, location.” To some degree, that’s true of music, too. Names like Nashville, Bakersfield, Muscle Shoals, and Sunset Boulevard conjure a certain […]
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