In less than 30 minutes, Sturgill Simpson weaves an incredible tale of love, friendship, heartache, and death on his new album, The Ballad of Dood and Juanita. Though it’s broken into 10 individual tracks, the record stands as a singular experience, […]
Sound & Fury, Sturgill Simpson’s fourth and latest release, is not his most melodic album. That’s High Top Mountain. Nor is Sound & Fury the hard-to-classify Kentucky native’s most consistent record. That’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. But Sound & […]
Oh, MAN! I finally got to see Willie Nelson live and in person! At The Hollywood Bowl! For the final stop of The Outlaw Music Festival 2018! Deadheads and Willie fans unite! And it was awesome. The only […]
After wrapping up a midday set of bluesy sun-drenched tunes beneath bright blue skies at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Eric Lindell thanked the crowd and shouted, “Soft shell crab po-boy, here I come!” Food and music are […]
This is the week we have all been waiting for. Let’s face it, we – the Americana Music Association headed by Jed Hilly and the rest of us – have changed Nashville, and significantly influenced other genres as well. No longer […]
The Americana Music Association today announced nominations for the 2017 Americana Music Awards from the Ford Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame. With their wry humor — “most of these nominees won’t be winners” — the Milk Carton […]
The rise of low-power FM stations continues across the country, some more sucessful than others. Nashville’s 100-watt WXNA has an interesting mix of punk, funk, roots, and more and an eclectic group of volunteer DJs. Randy Fox, who has been part […]
A Sailor’s Guide is a lot of things. For starters, it’s the latest masterstroke in an ongoing reclamation of country music from the mainstream by Nashville outsiders — a pretty romantic notion, to be sure, but one that Sturgill Simpson himself refuted in his WTF interview […]
Roots artists made a bit of a splash when Grammy nominations were announced late last year — prompting Sturgill Simpson to print up some “Who the F*** is Sturgill Simpson?” T-shirts — and they didn’t disappoint at the big show last […]
Oh, goodness. The 2017 Grammy Awards have arrived. For many in the No Depression audience, the Grammys have not mattered a ton for the past several… decades? But in an interesting turn of events, Americana and American roots music have […]
