Music is a weird business. You can put out the best song in the world, hire the best people in the world to promote it, and it can still fizzle. Meanwhile, all sorts of terrible songs inexplicably catch fire […]
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Like Marty Stuart’s rockabilly guitar licks and Ricky Skaggs’ lightning-fast mandolin runs, music historian and critic Michael Streissguth’s tour-de-force music history, Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country […]
When you’re traveling a lot, it’s nice to feel like you have a routine based on the places you’re visiting. This year, I’ve been flying more than usual, and I’ve come to fondly look forward to stopping through certain […]
When outlaw country royalty speaks, it’s best to listen. Jessi Colter is making a statement with the announcement of her new album, Edge of Forever, coming Oct. 27 on Appalachia Recording Co. The project was produced by Margo Price […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: George Jackson is a New Zealand-born fiddle player now living in Nashville. His new album of original fiddle tunes, George Jackson’s Local Trio, comes out Friday on Adhyâropa Records. With release week breathing down my neck, […]
Being no stranger to traditional music in West Virginia (my first article for ND, in 2009, was about the Morris Family Old Time Music Festival), each year I attend the Appalachian String Band Music Festival, better known simply as […]
It’s been a tough string of losses in the music community lately, from bluegrass icons Bobby Osborne and Jesse McReynolds, bluegrass innovator Roger Sprung, and beloved pop singer Sinéad O’Connor last month to The Band’s Robbie Robertson this week. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Raye Zaragoza is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for August 2023. Learn more about her and her new album, Hold That Spirit, out Aug. 11, in our interview, and look for more all month long. It was […]
Robbie Robertson, songwriter and guitarist for The Band, died today in Los Angeles at age 80, according to a statement from his manager. Among Robertson’s writing credits are classics including “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Peter Blackstock and Grant Alden were the original editors of No Depression, launching it as a print magazine covering alt-country (whatever that is) in 1995 and steering it through 75 issues until 2008. While they’re no longer part of […]
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