EDITOR’S NOTE: As the end of the year approaches, we’re taking a look back at albums we weren’t able to review when they first came out. Quiet the Room was released in October. Everything Helen Ballentine sings sounds like it passes through […]
No Depression‘s parent organization, the nonprofit FreshGrass Foundation, has announced the initial lineup for its third event in the Arkansas Ozarks. Soul legend Mavis Staples, folk-jam start-ups CAAMP, and cross-genre phenom Sierra Ferrell are slated to headline the two-day event […]
Holiday season is in full swing now, but there’s plenty of new music that came out in November that’s evergreen. (Don’t worry, though. No Depression‘s annual guide to Holiday Music That Doesn’t Suck is forthcoming!) Still, Billy Strings captures […]
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, […]
It’s the final day of Folk Music Ontario — a four-day festival and conference celebrating the folk traditions of Canada’s most populous province — and singer-songwriter Dan Mangan has arrived from the opposite side of the country with just […]
In case you didn’t get enough tricks from our sister site Folk Alley’s Scream Stream, No Depression has plenty of musical treats from October. Last month featured great new music from Spotlight artist Caleb Caudle (check out an exclusive, acoustic […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our current quarterly journal, featuring the best and most timely stories in roots music today. Buy the Fall 2022 issue in print or digitally here. Better yet, start a subscription with this […]
Between AmericanaFest, the FreshGrass Festival (produced by No Depression‘s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation), and then the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual event and awards (including a Distinguished Achievement Award for the FreshGrass Foundation), September seemed to pass at hyper-speed […]
Ali Farka Touré is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. The Malian singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist is credited with helping create what’s now (somewhat controversially) referred to as the “desert blues” sound — a guitar-based style that is […]
Summer may be winding down, but the musicians on No Depression‘s Best of August 2022 playlist are still kicking it hard! Bands like Vandoliers, Lee Bains + The Glory Fires, and Marcus King all bring Southern rock with a […]
