East Texas folk-blues master Ruthie Foster joined us at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST ’24, to share three songs including two from her tenth studio album Mileage, which just earned her a 2025 […]
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 look for more all […]
Last Friday evening in Saint Anne’s Church on opening night of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, Latin American ensemble Guachinangos played their energetic blend of Mexican son jarocho and Colombian cumbia music to an audience seemingly unable to sit down […]
“Ain’t it good to be alive?” Warren Haynes sings on “This Life as We Know It,” the first single from his first solo album in almost a decade: Million Voices Whisper. It is good to be alive, as it […]
Harlem-born blues vocal powerhouse Shemekia Copeland joined us at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST ’24 to share three songs, including the title track of the new album Blame It On Eve, which just earned […]
This week’s column features two events in different and scenic locales: the Dreamy Draw Music Festival (November 1 & 2, 2024) in Scottsdale, Arizona in the beautiful Sonoran Desert at the foot of the McDowell Mountains; and the Appalachian Allies […]
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 (out Nov.15 on Free Dirt Records), and look for more all month long. Before […]
In spite of it all, music happened this week. I dug deep into my vinyl collection this week and listened to Rage Against The Machine’s debut and IDLES’ 2018 LP titled Joy As An Act of Resistance. I listened […]
Alabama singer-songwriter Kashus Culpepper joined us in the Record Room at Jaan’s House in Nashville for his No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST ’24. Culpepper performed three songs in his inimitable way, voice full of sandpaper and gravel, building intensity and volume until peaking with […]
In 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival celebrated the lives and music of a group of fictional street singers Willy and the Poor Boys in their hit song “Down on the Corner.” As the four boys gather on the corner near […]
