The driving “The Man Who Shook the World” rockets off Chuck Mead’s rockin’ and rollin’ new album, Close to Home. Rick Steff’s piano rolls and sways, Jerry Lee Lewis-like, under the propulsive guitars of Mead, John Paul Keith, and producer […]
Last year I did an article on five artists not to miss at the Americana Music Association Festival. Try as I might, this year with over 200 artists performing over six days at fourteen venues I find it impossible to narrow it […]
Like many other No Depression readers who have checked out this year’s Top 50 Reader’s Poll, I have really enjoyed pouring over the results and seeing which artists were recognized. In part it’s an affirmation of the music that I’ve […]
Forty years ago, the streets of Nashville looked much like the streets of New York City, and the city planners of Music City, faced with the phenomenon that so affectionately became known as “urban decay,” decided to follow the lead […]
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS English Oceans (ATO) The band’s 12th release, is a balanced and deeply engaged new effort that finds the group refreshed and firing on all cylinders. ‘It can go from this chainsaw rock ‘n’ roll to this very delicate, […]
