If you’re a musician living through a pandemic, you make a quarantine album. It’s what you do. Daniel and Lauren Goans, the married duo known musically as Lowland Hum, are no exception. Though given their 2010s output — five self-produced […]
The country soul crooner “Can’t Tell the Difference Anymore,” from Dirty Camaro, Zachary Williams’ debut solo album, showcases Williams’ ability to move with ease across a range of sonic landscapes — from country to soul to gospel. The song opens […]
The pandemic hath wrought a lot of tour cancellations and album postponements, but it also proved to be the perfect time for a little experimental collaboration. And for Jade Jackson and Aubrie Sellers, that experiment became a bona fide side […]
Over the course of more than 20 years, My Morning Jacket has gradually mutated from a Southern indie rock curiosity to, perhaps predictably, stalwarts of the jamband scene. Phish is on pause? No worries. My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James […]
If you’re a regular visitor to No Depression, chances are that Norman Blake needs no introduction. Even if his name is unfamiliar at first glance, you’ve almost certainly spent hours listening to him play without even realizing it. As one […]
Dave Hause used to be a hardcore kid. Having grown up in Philadelphia, he spent his 20s playing in punk groups like The Loved Ones and The Falcon (a supergroup with members of The Lawrence Arms and Alkaline Trio). Even […]
When Kentucky Headhunters singer-guitarist Richard Young first heard The Georgia Thunderbolts onstage, it jolted him right out of his tour bus. He ran to the stage to see what his band was going to have to do to outshine his […]
It takes only one listen to Make Each Second Last to know you’ve come home. It may be Chris Jones’ smooth, soothing baritone vocals, or it may be the exquisite sonic purity of the never-waste-a-note playing of mandolinist Mark Stoffel, […]
I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Le Ren (Lauren Spear)’s Leftovers while knitting a blanket for my childhood friend’s baby. The more I listened to the Montreal-based singer-songwriter’s debut LP, the more my knitting-filled listening sessions felt like […]
Pokey LaFarge is a workhorse, nine albums and a global pandemic in. In the Blossom of Their Shade comes right on the heels of 2020’s excellent Rock Bottom Rhapsody (ND interview), a record that signaled a shift in LaFarge’s sound […]
