John Hiatt was set to record his follow-up to 2018’s The Eclipse Sessions in April 2020. It was going to be his first time setting foot inside the historic Studio B at RCA Studios in Nashville as well as […]
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To simply call his voice deep or gruff doesn’t do it justice. What emanates from Riley Downing’s vocal cords is a timeless reverberation, one that is soaked in the long, laboring days of a Midwestern life; the voice not of […]
At the end of his new record, Born Against, Amigo the Devil — also known as songwriter and musician Danny Kiranos — sings, “When the darkness of the tunnel is the last place I go, you’re the closest thing to […]
There is something deeply moving about the joy and hope that can arise out of pain. While live music has all but disappeared over the last 12 months, recorded music has blossomed. Bands kept writing new music, kept finding unique […]
If you were to judge Shovels & Rope’s new record by its cover, you wouldn’t be wrong to think it was a full-blown kid’s album. As the third release in their cover series known as Busted Jukebox, this volume is […]
I had the chance to chat with Steve Earle for the Summer 2019 No Depression journal. While our conversation focused on Guy, his album of Guy Clark covers released that spring, we skimmed the surface of several topics that weren’t […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
There is an unexpected calmness to John Calvin Abney’s new record, Familiar Ground. Perhaps it’s because he crafted most of the tracks with his friend, touring partner, and co-producer John Moreland. Maybe it’s because it’s his fifth studio album and he […]
In the opening pages of his new book, How to Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy writes, humbly, “Songs, to me, are much more like individual thoughts than other works of art are. They’re hard to hold on to — airlike and […]
2020 began in a familiar way for the Drive-By Truckers. They were gearing up for the release of their latest studio album, The Unraveling, and a long tour for it. The writing process for that album had been excruciating because of […]
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