Kinky Friedman’s posthumous album opens with the title song, “Poet of Motel 6,” a tribute to a fellow late legend of the Texas troubadour tradition, Billy Joe Shaver. “He’d stay up all night/ He would drink and he would […]
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Paul Thorn opens his new album, Life Is Just A Vapor, with a terse but timely sermon. “Tough times don’t last, tough people do,” the 60-year-old Tupelo, Miss., native sings over a loping, horn-accented R&B groove. Then he goes […]
The last we heard Charles “Wigg” Walker on record was more than a decade ago, when he fronted the Dynamites, a soul and funk outfit whose big, horn-infused attack can only be described as explosive. Walker was nevertheless a […]
“I’m a rovin’ soul,” Joe Ely confesses on the haunted opening to “Drivin’ Man,” the number that opens and sets the thematic tone for his sparkling new album, Driven to Drive. Since bursting out of Texas in the ‘70s like […]
Not that they needed any introduction to roots music fans, but on the title song of their first collaboration, 2018’s Downey to Lubbock (ND review), Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore succinctly laid out their long-established musical personas and points […]
Nobody blends groove and gravitas quite like Chris Smither. The folk-blues master leads off his new album with the title song, “All About the Bones.” Over a seductive mid-tempo rhythm burnished by his own deftly picked guitar, Chris Cheek’s late-night […]
Game recognizes game: On their new album, All This Time, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams borrow from another prominent Americana couple, Buddy and Julie Miller. Their searing take on the Millers’ “I Love You” matches the almost scarily intense devotion […]
Near the end of his fourth studio album, on a number called “Triumph,” Gary Clark Jr. urges listeners to “set the world on fire.” Clark himself has been doing that with his music since he emerged as a six-string prodigy […]
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 […]
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