In August of 2020, months into the lockdown, Ana Egge began working on “This Time” with Dick Connette. The song was inspired by the summer’s national public demonstrations radiating from the murder of George Floyd, and the sense that what’s […]
In August of 2020, months into the lockdown, Ana Egge began working on “This Time” with Dick Connette. The song was inspired by the summer’s national public demonstrations radiating from the murder of George Floyd, and the sense that what’s […]
At 72, singer-songwriter Bob Davoli has taken and distilled seven decades of personal experiences to make his beautiful, remarkable, and very personal debut album, Wistfully Yours. The 15-song collection was released Jan. 15 via Gutbrain Records, with all proceeds being donated to the Food Not Bombs organization.
Waiting Out the Storm is Jeremy Ivey’s follow up to last year’s The Dream and The Dreamer. Ivey wrote most of this album on the road with frequent collaborator, wife, and country phenom Margo Price, taking a lyrics-first approach for […]
This year, as we have every year since 2004, we gave our readers the impossible task of choosing their 10 favorite roots music albums from among the year’s new releases. In 2020, as always, readers took up the challenge enthusiastically, […]
A feature track on Shemekia Copeland’s celebrated new album, Uncivil War, “Clotilda’s on Fire” tells the powerful story of the last slave ship to sail to America, more than 50 years after the slave trade was outlawed. Produced by Will Kimbrough […]
In a year when everything was upended and scary, No Depression readers reached eagerly, and perhaps understandably, for what’s familiar. Topping our 2020 Year-End Readers Poll, which received more than 6,800 ballots, were new albums from roots music’s current leading […]
With touring forced to a halt in 2020, artists found themselves with time on their hands, and the creative spirit stops for no virus. Many musicians channeled their energies into cover songs as they waited things out at home, playing […]
Inspired by collage animation and the psychedelic art of the 1960s and 1970s, Emma Swift’s “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” video is another sumptuous visual delight from her critically acclaimed album of Bob Dylan songs, Blonde on the […]
A lot of traditions have had to be laid aside in this giant bummer of a year, but a slew of new holiday music releases isn’t one of them. To help you wade through all the shiny paper and twinkling […]
Calexico’s new album, Seasonal Shift, is less of a Christmas album and more of a cross-cultural seasonal celebration. The themes of Seasonal Shift are based around that familiar end-of-year feeling of reflection, of ceremony and of recognition of the year […]
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