In addition to Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and other annual awards to be bestowed at the Americana Honors & Awards show during AmericanaFest in September, the Americana Music Association will also honor several folks for […]
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Both Texas and tall tales are a little bit smaller today, with news that Richard “Kinky” Friedman has passed away. Friedman had Parkinson’s disease, according to the Texas Tribune, and died at his home in Medina, Texas, at age […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaitlin Butts is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Roadrunner!, in this interview. And read her essay about her road-runnin’ career path here. Roadrunner comes out June 28 […]
Thursday would have been the 100th birthday of country guitar hero Chet Atkins, and what better way to celebrate than with … a ballet?! The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the Nashville Symphony marked the occasion […]
Shelby Lynne steered clear of Nashville for a couple decades, but the music pulled her back, and she’s got a new album to show for it. Consequences of the Crown, produced by Lynne with Karen Fairchild of Little Big […]
There’s a fairly big-name concert in a fairly big amphitheater I’m not attending tonight because the ticket price is too high. I bet you’ve run into that lately too. Of course, we all recognize that music has value (as […]
Nearly four years after Justin Townes Earle’s tragic death at age 38 comes a new project collecting recordings he made in the last years of his life. The 2 LPs of All In: Unreleased & Rarities (The New West […]
After 15 years as a band, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real announced this week they’re going their separate ways, at least for a while. In a social media post, the band said they’ve “decided to take a […]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Sturgill Simpson, but it appears that’s about to change. On Wednesday morning, his website touted a new album, Passage du Desir, coming July 12. The artist name is Johnny Blue Skies. […]
It’s one thing to write songs about jerks. It’s another to fully inhabit them, willfully and convincingly becoming an unlikable narrator. That only works if the songs are enormously likable. And Austin singer-songwriter Curtis McMurtry once again strikes that balance […]
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