EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2021 journal, “Voices” that No Depression is republishing in honor of today’s 180-gram vinyl reissue of this underground classic record from Light in the Attic. You can read the […]
It’s been a smidge more than a week since we announced our new subscription deal and the subscription drive we’re running, and I’m thrilled to say that we’ve passed the 1,500 subscriber mark! (Our ultimate goal is 7,000.) If you […]
Every art form goes through periods of intense transformation as artists discover new avenues and new methods to express themselves through the medium. Television is currently experiencing such a revolution, driven in part by advancements in streaming technology and the […]
Americana music can claim several music towns as its home. There was Austin in the early 1970s, Laurel Canyon during the same time, Muscle Shoals in the late ’60s and early ’70s (though less a scene in the same sense […]
Karen Dalton sang in a resigned, motionless, foggy voice, and her twelve-string guitar playing combined folkie imprecision with blues feeling. Since her 1993 death, Dalton has been taken up as stylistic forebear by musicians such as Devendra Banhart and Joanna […]
Happens all the time: You play a track by Karen Dalton for an unsuspecting listener, their eyes widen, and they exclaim, “Who the hell is that?!” The surprise is never unexpected, nor is the unfamiliarity. The most reluctant of recording […]
“Karen always seemed like a Gothic cathedral in ruins, and I always felt that I needed to restore her.” — Peter Stampfel, from the liner notes Karen Dalton’s voice bends and breaks, trembles with tension and curls itself round her […]
