It’s no easy feat to be a band for 30 years. Longevity in the music industry requires a fickle combination of skill, adaptability, dedication, and luck. Guster, it seems, has found it all. As the legend goes, Guster formed […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaia Kater is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May. Learn more about her and her new album, Strange Medicine (out May 17 on Free Dirt Records), in our interview, and look for more all month long. […]
There’s no shortage of sadness in bluegrass. It’s right there in the mournful fiddles, in the broken-hearted lyrics; it’s baked into the high lonesome sound itself. But often the cause of that constant sorrow is external: Usually, someone left […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of Hurray for the Riff Raff’s nomination for Album of the Year in the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards, we’re sharing an excerpt of a profile about them in our Spring 2024 issue of No Depression. You […]
If it hadn’t been for Gerde’s Folk City’s Johny Porco one day in 1969, Greg Brown might have headed home from his adventure in New York City, where he had gone to try to make it as a folk […]
One of the many highlights at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is a painstakingly accurate recreation of Guy Clark’s workshop, the basement haven where he would go to work on guitars, solve life’s problems, […]
In a live event from the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville this afternoon, the Americana Music Association revealed the nominees for its 2024 Honors & Awards. Two artists — Sierra Ferrell and Tyler Childers — have […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaia Kater is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2024. Look for more about her and her new album, Strange Medicine (out May 17 on Free Dirt Records), all month long. There’s a video clip of […]
April saw a return of many No Depression stalwarts. Any new music from alt-country rock stars Old 97’s constitutes a highlight over here. And tunes from singer-songwriting legend Lucinda Williams (on a compilation honoring 40 years of public radio music […]
MerleFest was founded in 1988 in memory of Eddy Merle Watson, Doc Watson’s son who died in a tractor accident. Doc himself called the festival a celebration of “traditional plus” music: roots-oriented sounds of the Appalachian region, including bluegrass […]
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