Chattanooga native Amythyst Kiah’s sophomore album, Wary + Strange, functions like an emotional exorcism: 41 minutes of grunge-tinged folk, bluesy and anguished on some tracks, proclamatory in others, but altogether intended to unburden Kiah of the grief she has carried […]
I saw and listened to a lot of music in 2018 – a lot. I have a demanding full time job as head of In the Public Interest (check out the link and feel free to sign up.) But music […]
Sometimes there’s nothing more cutting edge than looking back, bringing voices from the past into into today’s conversation in hopes of a better tomorrow. That’s the idea behind Song of Our Native Daughters, a new project from Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla […]
As the audience members headed out into Saturday night after the last drumbeats of “Freedom Highway” had sounded and “Sisters Present,” the final night of Rhiannon Giddens’ residency at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, came to a […]
In my never ending quest to bring to ND readers the length and breadth of roots music around the globe, this week the Southern Fried Festival in Perth, Scotland is featured. The festival bills itself as the “Festival of American […]
Constructed as a meeting hall in 1894, the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, with a seating capacity of about 400, would seem to be the ideal venue for a classically trained singer turned roots-music virtuoso who thrives in an intimate […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This spring, we’re focusing on the music and traditions of Appalachia, both here at NoDepression.com and in our print journal. For more sounds and voices from that ancient mountain region, get yourself a copy of our spring journal, […]
I would not have known the Brooklyn Folk Festival existed were it not for the publicist. I might have known if I lived in New York, but I do not. I am grateful to that publicist because I was introduced […]
Amythyst Kiah is going to be famous. That’s the first thing Karen (of Karen and the Sorrows) told me, and when I heard her perform life this past Friday I knew it to be true. No less than Toshi Reagon […]
