I left Austin, the town where my family moved when I was 4 years old, three times in the 1980s. That was for summer internships (in California, New York, and Alaska), and I knew I’d be back. But even […]
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No Depression readers know that Black musicians have always been essential to the story of roots music, and now the rest of the world is starting to take notice. An article last week in T, The New York Times […]
With World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music, Jeff Tweedy completes a trilogy of meditative books that offer windows into his life, his songwriting, and, now, his deeply personal take on […]
This week’s column is a hybrid of sorts. It’s the last column of the year that features roots music festivals, two recent ones and two that were previously covered by ND but for which we have some great additional […]
In an essay for The New York Times adapted from his brand new book, World Within a Song, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy lets us in on a little secret: He’s really come around after a lifetime of hating ABBA’s “Dancing […]
BONUS TRACKS: Roots Music in the Thanksgiving Parade, Billy Strings’ Night of WrestleMania, and More
With Halloween in our rearview (except, perhaps, for the candy left in the bowl after trick-or-treating, or the stash you may or may not have stolen from your kids’ haul), Thanksgiving is on deck, and you can almost taste […]
In recent weeks this column has taken us to events all across the country, primarily in larger metropolitan areas such as Nashville, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and Raleigh, North Carolina, exploring the many of the branches of roots […]
Perhaps we should reconsider last column’s comment about the manufactured consent of celebrity and commerce so as to add a needed caveat, borrowed from a children’s book by Lloyd Alexander: The work doesn’t care who does it. And the […]
As festival season starts to snooze for the winter, music fans can start dreaming of spring lineups, and we’ve got a good one for you: FreshGrass | Bentonville, presented by No Depression publisher the FreshGrass Foundation, announced its lineup […]
Just over a decade ago, in 2011, Bob Dylan remarked: “Everybody knows by now that there’s a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I’m encouraging anybody who’s ever met me, heard me […]
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