A couple of weeks ago during a long ride in the tour van, my bandmate Mali looked up from her phone to ask the van at large if we’d heard of a song called “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas […]
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Here’s how the post-show merch-table conversation used to go for me as a fan: I go to the show to hear an artist I love play music that means something to me. I walk up to the merch table, maybe […]
Every so often, I get on Facebook and solicit questions to inspire this column — usually when I feel like I’ve run out of ideas. I ask people, non-musicians in particular, what elements of a musician’s life they’re curious about. […]
As you may or may not know, my band Lula Wiles has a new record called What Will We Do coming out on Friday! (If you read No Depression regularly, hopefully you do know, as we’re lucky enough to be ND’s Spotlight […]
Here is a story my mom has often told: Years ago, my parents (a folk duo) were playing a show. Afterwards, a woman came up to the merch table and told my mom, “I loved your CD so much, I […]
This isn’t a “best of 2018” list in the traditional sense. That’s because a) I know you’re being inundated with year-end lists, so I thought I’d switch mine up a bit, and b) this year I listened to a lot […]
Last Sunday, I woke up at 6:30 a.m., threw a change of clothes and four granola bars into my backpack, and took an Uber to a train station north of Boston. The morning was cold and dark. I walked around […]
In my last column, I mentioned that one of the things I was most looking forward to about my upcoming months off the road was practicing music. It’s difficult, bordering on impossible, to maintain a serious practice routine on tour, […]
Once again, I’m writing from the tour van, which is currently on its way home to Boston from North Carolina (a 14-hour drive that my bandmates have bravely chosen to undertake in one day). We’ve just completed a weeklong run […]
I spent this past weekend at the Blackpot Festival and Cook-Off, which takes place in Lafayette, Louisiana. This year marked the festival’s 13th year of celebrating and preserving South Louisiana’s traditional culture of gathering around the cast-iron pot for music, […]
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