The 77th annual Tony Awards took place last night, and unsuspecting TV audiences may have met a denim-clad troupe performing distinctly rootsy music on the recreation of a Broadway stage with some skepticism. But for musical theater fans, seeing […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaitlin Butts is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Roadrunner! (out June 28 via Soundly Music), in our interview, and look for more all month long. 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 […]
As singer-songwriters who began their careers in the 1960s go, Joni Mitchell is one of the more mythologized. Numerous books have been published about her, granted, but they typically follow the traditional biography route, as though examining and re-examining […]
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. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaitlin Butts is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2024. Look for more on Butts and her new album, Roadrunner! (out June 28 on Soundly Music), all month long. The great state of Oklahoma has long […]
If you subscribe to No Depression in print (which you should), you know that the opening letter from the editor is called “Hello Stranger” after The Carter Family’s song from 1937. Likewise, this month’s playlist opens with a new version […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaia Kater is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Strange Medicine, in our interview, and don’t miss a video of her performing “Maker Taker” just for ND readers. […]
In five decades in the music business, Joe Ely has logged a lot of miles. It’s no surprise that the scenery and characters he’s encountered along the way have made it into some of his songs. His new album, […]
Although the FreshGrass Festival is still relatively new to Bentonville, Arkansas — its fourth edition took place last weekend — many of the performers are old friends of the FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression’s nonprofit publisher). Singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan, who […]
