Like Johnny Cash channeling Leonard Cohen with lyrics by Charles Bukowski, Tom Russell’s latest is a collection of true-life vignettes accumulated over his wild and wooly past. Not all of the adventures are his, but he recounts them with the […]
This is the season that I try to be the first kid on the block to beat out the barrage of those end-of-the-year lists from critics and pundits. Here at No Depression, and other like-minded music websites and magazines, the […]
This week’s column was going to be the final one of the year that focuses on new and upcoming roots music releases. But as there are more coming out than one column can hold, I’ll do another one in a couple of […]
Tom Russell has recorded more than 25 albums — including many critically acclaimed ones — so it’s surprising to hear him declare his new release, Folk Hotel, his best one. “I spent a lot of time with the songs, isolated […]
It’s a traveling time of year, at least for those of us in the Americana world. Several ND staffers, contributors, and friends have been at AmericanaFest this week, and some of us are heading to Massachusetts this weekend for our FreshGrass festival – […]
I’ve been a Tom Russell fan since 1975, when he sent me a copy of Ring of Bone, his superb duet album with Patricia Hardin. “Why hasn’t everybody heard of this guy?” I wondered. More than 40 years later, I’m […]
Folk Hotel for release on September 8 will be Tom Russell’s 36th solo record. An artist who needs no introduction on these pages, having received much critical acclaim over a 40 year career not just for the quality of his work, […]
This photograph from was shot by Steven Steigman in 1978 and was used in a series of advertisements for Maxell cassette tapes, back in an era when people had use for such things. It crossed my mind the other day […]
An Episodic Day in the Life of an Up-and-Coming Band’s Tour, Number Who-Knows-What Setting the Stage, Getting the House in Order, while Flock of Birds Alight This is a “day-in-the-life” feature from this writer/fan trying to bring a band’s tour […]
Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that programming and managing an internet radio station is a labor of love. It also might just be the future of radio. Danny Birch of Radio Vagabond certainly has a passion for music, which […]
