If you’re a regular visitor to No Depression, chances are that Norman Blake needs no introduction. Even if his name is unfamiliar at first glance, you’ve almost certainly spent hours listening to him play without even realizing it. As one […]
You can’t help but feel happy for the guy. After decades of addiction, health problems, and financial struggles, David Crosby has recently enjoyed a late-life career renaissance that few this side of Leonard Cohen could ever dream of. He’s released […]
The minute Shadow Kingdom was announced, rumors and speculations began to ripple through the rarified air of Bob Dylan fandom. Would the $25 a ticket streamed special be a filmed version of a live performance, his first since 2019? Or […]
Recorded during the lockdown at a rural studio near Dublin, Ireland, where Rhiannon Giddens and her partner, Francesco Turrisi, have been riding out the pandemic, They’re Calling Me Home is, without reservation, her finest work to date. Intimately recorded and […]
A person could be forgiven for wondering how much is still hidden away in Bob Dylan’s vaults that is worth hearing, and even more to the point, what’s left to say about Dylan’s music that hasn’t been said a thousand […]
Joni Mitchell is an extremely focused and careful artist who has always viewed her albums as finished works that put across everything she wants to communicate with her audience, so she’s never been one to share her creative process through […]
First Rose of Spring, Willie Nelson’s 70th studio album, was finished and set to release on April 29 to coincide with the singer’s 87th birthday. Since then, of course, the world has changed in ways that we’re just beginning to […]
If you didn’t know any better, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that David Bromberg’s new album wasn’t the work of a single performer, recorded at a particular moment in time. There are so many musical voices and melodic […]
Ships running off course, lost sailors, broken hearts and blizzards, chilled bones and lonely inclement weather. Judy Collins’ Winter Stories, the fourth seasonally themed record of her career, is very far from being just another of her feel-good Christmas albums. […]
Anytime Neil Young plays with Crazy Horse, he’s just about guaranteed to alienate half of his fans and inspire an almost religious devotion in the other half. The music they make together is cranky, passionate, and impolite. Highly emotional rather […]
