The Lone Bellow has some of the best harmonies in roots music, and they’ve held that title for nearly a decade now. The Nashville-based group, which began as a trio of Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, and Kanene Donehey Pipkin, […]
The Lone Bellow has some of the best harmonies in roots music, and they’ve held that title for nearly a decade now. The Nashville-based group, which began as a trio of Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, and Kanene Donehey Pipkin, […]
The Lone Bellow have never been strangers to letting their personal lives saturate the music they create. In fact, Zach Williams first began writing songs as a way to cope with the paralysis his wife was left with following a horseback […]
I’ve written a lot about how much the crowdfunding world dries up in the summer, as acts turn their focus away from the studio and into the clubs and concert halls. Well, if this week’s new batch of campaigns popping […]
We’re big fans of the Lone Bellow here at No Depression, singing their praises ever since the Brooklyn-bred trio released their self-titled debut album in 2013. It’s not a surprise, then, that we were pretty stoked to hear that the […]
Whenever the The Steel Wheels comes to town, the rubber hits the road with a rolling, fricative sound – a pushing forth of melody and movement with the vocal fix of lyrics layered in magic. Recently, the band, led by […]
This was a year of firsts for the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado. Most notably (and noticeably, for that matter) was the debut of Mavis Staples, the 77-year-old gospel-R&B-soul singer who still performs with an evangelist’s fervor. “Well, […]
Mipso’s charming and vivacious fiddler / vocalist / songwriter Libby Rodenbough, who’d been dressed in a startlingly tight, dazzlingly white outfit for their earlier Red Wing performance, said she almost burst (her) eardrums for a front-row dose of Dawes. at […]
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley are fortunate to have Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels band, not to mention Eastern Mennonite University that initially brought the band members here as students, not to mention the influence on the band […]
Part rock concert, part gospel communion, part therapy session, a Lone Bellow gig is not for the feint-hearted. And that’s without the Savage Garden and Aqua covers. The last time they graced our shores they took the roof off the […]
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