When Nanci Griffith died in 2021, there was an outpouring of love from fans and peers from all over the world, from her native Texas to her beloved Ireland, Australia, and, of course, Nashville. Writers and musicians that span […]
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Over the years, Leon Russell’s fans, which have included some of the biggest names in every corner of the music world, cared more for his legacy than he did. Russell spent most of his career moving forward, not disowning the […]
Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart, Lucinda Williams’ first album since suffering a stroke in November 2020, plays directly to those kids in the high school parking lot during a Friday night football game in the era when they’d […]
Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos is a collection that celebrates those who sat a piano or hunkered over a guitar with a paper and pen, scrawling, singing, strumming, and pounding until inspiration hit, either at home or […]
It wasn’t until the members of Gov’t Mule needed to come up with a name for their latest project that guitarist/singer/songwriter Warren Haynes discovered there was a consistent theme running throughout the lyrics. “The River Only Flows One Way,” “Made […]
When the chorus hits almost two minutes into “King of Oklahoma,” the second track on Weathervanes, the new Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit album, it’s like an unexpected release of tension you didn’t know you needed. It proves once […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rufus Wainwright is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2023. Look for more from Wainwright and his new album, Folkocracy, out June 2 on BMG, all month long. One of Rufus Wainwright’s earliest memories is of […]
When you name your band and your album The Big Bottle of Joy, roots music fans should expect to be transported, at least for a little while, to a place that will distract them from their troubles and the state […]
Following a pair of experiments that kept them busy during the pandemic in 2020 — the ambient soundscapes of We Have Amnesia Sometimes and their brief yet sublime EP of covers, Sleepless Nights — Yo La Tengo return to the […]
Bob Dylan closed the 1980s with the Daniel Lanois-produced Oh Mercy, an acclaimed return-to-form after more than a decade of bad reviews and being “written off,” as his concert introductions voiced by stage manager Al Santos dryly made clear, “as […]
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