“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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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