Bobby Osborne, the 85-year-old singer and mandolinist best known for the bluegrass music he started playing with his brother a half-century ago, has a new record out this week called Original. (Full disclosure: the album was made with the help […]
As we plow into another week of our subscription drive (which we’re running until June 15), I thought it a good time to pop back into this space and give you an update. We still need about 1,200 more subscribers […]
As we enter the third week of our subscription drive, I thought it a wise time to share what it is we’re working on for upcoming issues. After all, subscribing at just $6 per month will get you every upcoming […]
It’s been a smidge more than a week since we announced our new subscription deal and the subscription drive we’re running, and I’m thrilled to say that we’ve passed the 1,500 subscriber mark! (Our ultimate goal is 7,000.) If you […]
Outside the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina, there’s a sculpture of a guy with a fiddle, a guy with a banjo, and a couple of people dancing. It’s cast in hard, cold metal, but the fixed figures appear […]
It’s been said that music criticism basically boils down to “You’ve got to hear this” or “You had to be there.” I kept thinking about that last night, as I watched the Indigo Girls perform to a sold-out crowd in […]
Earlier this year, for the first time in No Depression’s 22 years, we became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Now, as a nonprofit niche music publication, we quite literally cannot continue to make our quarterly journal and run this website without your […]
Merlefest has just capped its 30th festival, and what a year it was. The festival packed into four days a diverse array of artists, including festival favorites Scythian, stars like James Taylor, old masters like Happy Traum, innovators like Sam Bush […]
When it comes to American songwriting, “the road” is nearly as constant a muse as is unrequited (or altogether impossible) love. For the Mastersons — the husband-and-wife duo that is as well-known for backing Steve Earle as for fronting its own […]
The Wood Brothers were in town last night, so was JD McPherson. You’d think Asheville, North Carolina, the “Brooklyn of the South” — where you can’t throw a yoga teacher without hitting a banjo picker — would be a big enough town to pack […]
