Like most humans do at some point, Alison Brown got to thinking recently about her younger self. She was poring through the original tapes of her landmark 1990 album Simple Pleasures in preparation for a reissue, and she wondered […]
Like most humans do at some point, Alison Brown got to thinking recently about her younger self. She was poring through the original tapes of her landmark 1990 album Simple Pleasures in preparation for a reissue, and she wondered […]
Billy Strings is clearly in the fast lane when it comes to releasing new music this year. At midnight he announced a new album, Highway Prayers, via social media. Coming Sept. 27, the album appears to have a car […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild Ponies are No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2024. Look for more about them and their new album, Dreamers (out Aug. 23 on No Evil Records), all month long. Love has a way of expanding […]
Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol is lined with bronze and marble likenesses of founding fathers, renowned orators, war heroes, and do-gooders, two from each state. But soon the first musician will join its ranks, and it’s a good […]
symbiont, the new collaborative album from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, isn’t going to sound like anything you’ve heard before. The album, coming Sept. 27 on Smithsonian Folkways, contends with the past, present, and future through the lens of […]
After months of intense speculation, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced today the new home for its annual World of Bluegrass conference and festival. After one last hurrah this September in Raleigh, North Carolina, the event’s home since 2013, […]
There’s been buzz and photos from the set and lots of speculation about the new Bob Dylan biopic for months, but the first trailer landed this week, giving us an early look at Timothée Chalamet’s walk in the folksinger’s […]
In one of the very best kinds of surprises, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings announced a new album today. Woodland, from the duo’s own Acony Records, is coming Aug. 23. The album is named for their Woodland Studios in […]
In case you haven’t been staying on top of your Disney news, the Country Bear Jamboree audio-animatronic show at Disney World has been shuttered for most of the year for a makeover. Why am I telling you this? Because […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a profile in our Summer 2024 journal issue of the issue’s guest editor, Béla Fleck. You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with […]