Shelby Lynne steered clear of Nashville for a couple decades, but the music pulled her back, and she’s got a new album to show for it. Consequences of the Crown, produced by Lynne with Karen Fairchild of Little Big […]
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Two recent roots music fests in Florida are featured this week: Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend (May 10-12) and JJ Grey’s Blackwater Sol Revue (May 25-26). Being namesake festivals, their lineups reflected the unique perspectives their host artists have on […]
The 77th annual Tony Awards took place last night, and unsuspecting TV audiences may have met a denim-clad troupe performing distinctly rootsy music on the recreation of a Broadway stage with some skepticism. But for musical theater fans, seeing […]
There’s a fairly big-name concert in a fairly big amphitheater I’m not attending tonight because the ticket price is too high. I bet you’ve run into that lately too. Of course, we all recognize that music has value (as […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaitlin Butts is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Roadrunner! (out June 28 via Soundly Music), in our interview, and look for more all month long. As […]
Watch Shadowgrass burn up their fretboards at the Gatekeeper’s Museum in Tahoe City, part of our No Depression Sessions series during the WinterWonderGrass Festival. We get to hear two new songs, “Pleasantly Aimless” and “Uncertain Times,” from their yet-untitled forthcoming record, and […]
Nearly four years after Justin Townes Earle’s tragic death at age 38 comes a new project collecting recordings he made in the last years of his life. The 2 LPs of All In: Unreleased & Rarities (The New West […]
This week’s column features two festivals at opposite ends of the world that were held over two holiday weekends: Australia’s Byron Bay Bluesfest on Easter weekend and Rooster Walk in Virginia over Memorial Day weekend. Bluesfest has been covered […]
As singer-songwriters who began their careers in the 1960s go, Joni Mitchell is one of the more mythologized. Numerous books have been published about her, granted, but they typically follow the traditional biography route, as though examining and re-examining […]
The third installment in our No Depression Session series from WinterWonderGrass finds us back at Shadyside Lounge on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore for noontime mezcal beverages and a delicious performance by Two Runner. Northern California songwriter Paige Anderson and fiddler Emilie Rose bring the […]
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