Todd Snider was on a creative roll when he recorded a new album in 2007. It was called Crank It, We’re Doomed, and for some reason the mercurial singer-songwriter decided to shelve it, though several tracks would wind up on […]
Todd Snider was on a creative roll when he recorded a new album in 2007. It was called Crank It, We’re Doomed, and for some reason the mercurial singer-songwriter decided to shelve it, though several tracks would wind up on […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Logan Ledger is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for September 2023. His new album, Golden State, comes out Sept. 8 on Rounder Records. Look for more from Ledger all month long here at nodepression.com. Logan Ledger feels […]
It’s a cliché, but there’s no other way to put it: Even back on his 2017 debut, released when he was 22, Colter Wall sounded like an old soul. A lot of it has to do with his voice: His […]
Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton come at rock generally from different angles — she from the blues, he from country. Nevertheless, they have a lot in common. Both pen sharply drawn songs that help them put an indelible personal stamp […]
Near the end of his new album, Altitude, over the locomotive drive of the track “Tomahawk,” Marty Stuart delivers the song’s key observation: “There’s absolutely nothing new underneath the sun.” That pretty much goes for music too. So, the question […]
If you’re looking for music to get a party started, or to blast while cruising the highway, Joe Henry’s is not for you. Lyrically dense and cerebral, it does not reward casual listening. That certainly goes for All the Eye […]
Alex Williams’ debut, Better Than Myself, was one of the best albums of 2017. The Indiana native had the voice, the sound, the swagger, and — most important — the songs to come across as a legitimate modern-day outlaw. As […]
Near the end of his new album, Loudon Wainwright III asks, “How old is 75?” His answer: “So old that you’re barely alive.” Consciousness of age and a nagging sense of mortality have been present in the work of this […]
“Baby, I lost my soul in the black hole,” Jonah Tolchin sings on the opening track of his new album. I don’t know about that, but the singer-guitarist does get lost in some spellbinding grooves on “Black Hole” and other […]
Nothing says Americana, in the broadest sense, more than trains. They’ve long been a source of romance and fascination — and, for songwriters, metaphor-laden inspiration. Trains may no longer have a dominant presence in the American consciousness, but Americana Railroad, […]
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