Hiss Golden Messenger bandleader, singer and songwriter M.C. Taylor joined us at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge for his No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST ’24, to share three songs including two from his latest record, Jump For Joy. We snuck this […]
Holler Choir Copy + Video (photo attached, credit John DuPre) Asheville’s Holler Choir joined us at Jaan’s House for their No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST ’24, to share three songs from their debut record, Songs Before They Write Themselves. Please enjoy this performance, and stay […]
When reviewing the most recent photos taken by the ND photographers, I noticed that a significant number of the artists come from the many branches of country music. Five years ago, this column ran a story profiling eight artists titled […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms are No Depression’s Spotlight artists for Nov. 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Gold in Your Pocket (released Nov. 15 on Free Dirt Records), in this interview, and these videos. […]
Black Friday comes late this year, it’s not until Nov. 29! But as you plan your shopping lists, remember the little guys – independent record stores. Through the folks at Record Store Day, participating record stores offer many great releases […]
Charlottesville native fiddler Bronwyn Keith-Hynes joined us at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST ’24, to share four songs from her debut vocal album I Built A World, which just earned her a 2025 GRAMMY […]
Texas historian Joe Nick Patoski sums up the experience of attending one of Willie Nelson’s annual picnics as “living inside a Willie Nelson song every Fourth of July.” As Patoski writes in his foreword to journalist Dave Dalton Thomas’ Picnic: […]
By Peter Blackstock As we approach the end of the year, there’s no particular rhyme or reason to these six selections — just a bunch of records I’ve been digging lately, and perhaps you might as well. Keep on rockin’ […]
“Everybody’s got roots” as the saying goes, and that’s especially true for roots music. While much of the press is focused on American roots music, artists from all over the globe are producing quality music, either in the style […]
This week’s column is the last one this year devoted to roots music festival coverage. It features two Moon Crush fests at Miramar Beach, Florida: Moon Crush: Cowboy Moon (November 1-3, 2024), and Moon Crush: An Avett Moon (November […]
