“What do you want me to do / To do for you, to see you through?” asks Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh on “Box of Rain,” a rare vocal appearance in the beloved folkie band’s Jerry Garcia-heavy canon. “A […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to No Depression’s new “Postcard From” series, where we ask artists for a dispatch from their daily lives on the road, in the studio, or anywhere in between. Our next installment comes from Twang, an up-and-coming Danish bluegrass trio […]
The 38th annual King Biscuit Blues Festival took place October 9 to 12 this year, on the banks for the Mississippi River in Helena, Arkansas. Beloved for its rich blues music selection, the festival is considered the best in the […]
For a short time in the mid-1980s, Lone Justice had everything going for them. They’d been signed to a major label at the suggestion of Linda Ronstadt, endorsed by no less than Dolly Parton, and were at the forefront […]
It’s hard enough to be a roots musician in the United States these days, what with, algorithms dictating which social media posts are seen or not, streaming services paying minimally, and prices rising for almost every aspect of touring. In […]
There is a sense in which this book should not need to be written. Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Mother Maybelle Carter, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, among others, are the fount of the blues, jazz, gospel, country, and rock. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joy Clark is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for October 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Tell it to the Wind, out now on Righteous Babe Records, in our interview. And watch her perform “Lesson” from […]
Rhiannon Giddens is starting a music festival. The Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician announced today that her first Biscuits & Banjos music festival will take place in Durham North Carolina next April as a celebration of Black music, art, and […]
Every October the eyes and ears of roots music fans everywhere turn to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The Park’s landscape includes 680 forested acres, 130 acres of meadows, and 33 acres of lakes, but it’s the […]
Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan joined us in the Carter-Cash dressing room in Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST ’24. O’Donovan shared two songs including the title track from her current album All My Friends, leading with a […]
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