Douglas Jay Goldstein is anything but ordinary when it comes to the American folk scene. As Dougmore, the artist paints vast aural tapestries filled with uncanny lyrics that quote pastoral poets, while roiling banjo haunts the depths of his sometimes fantastical tunes. The result […]
Hey kid, take a rip on that antihistamine and give these four new records a listen. First up, we’ve got the hell-raising barroom rock of Sarah Shook and her band, the Disarmers. As staff reviewer Maeri Ferguson so aptly puts it: Shook gives […]
This week on No Depression, we’re basking in the fantastic red light glow of Willie Nelson’s album cover for God’s Problem Child. Staff reviewer Don McLeese says it “recalls the era when Willie was at his creative peak.” Also on […]
In his barnburner of a single, “Resist,” St. Louis’s Rev. Sekou takes on the generational pain of communities like Ferguson, MO, instilling the track with a sense of activism, gospel, and Southern blues. It’s a fitting thesis statement from the scholar, artist, activist, […]
What do Sheryl Crow, Sean Rowe, and Father John Misty all have in common? Well, sonically, almost nothing aside from (maybe) attending the same Big Tent Americana genre party — and even that’s a tenuous connection. Instead, these three artists, […]
You might recognize Allison Pierce from her time in the Pierces, an experimental band she co-fronts with her sister Catherine. The singer’s new solo work is definitely a departure from the duo’s well-produced pop that borrows from vaudevillian and acoustic traditions. […]
Peter Bradley Adams needed to solve a generational quandary. Is it possible that the regrets of our fathers, and our father’s fathers, are passed down along the line, saddling us with problems we didn’t create? Adams went about testing this […]
Well, the world certainly does spin madly on, doesn’t it? While that news ticker crawls across your TVs, and the updates and tweets flood your news feeds, you can always come here to No Depression for a well-deserved respite from […]
Vandoliers’ newest single, “Rolling Out,” literally opens with a can of whoop-ass. Around the 10-second mark, right before the group tumbles into righteous barroom shouting you can hear the subtle, hilariously timed opening of a particularly percussive beer can. The Dallas-Fort […]
Blues Brothers-style hot brass blasts over the speakers like a souped-up Crown Victoria at the beginning of “Charla,” a new track from Missouri band the Hooten Hallers. After a saxy intro, singer John Randall launches into a demented rasp that evokes images […]
