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 […]
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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 […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Humbird is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Right On, in our interview. And don’t miss her recent essay about songs and how they find us. Many […]
Ninety-seven artists are scheduled to perform across 12 stages at this year’s MerleFest, held April 25-28 on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The 17 artists highlighted below are, with a couple notable exceptions, ones […]
Now in its 17th year, Record Store Day shines a needed spotlight on independent record stores, those beacons of cool that have shaped the musical tastes of many a fan and many an artist, too. This Record Store Day […]
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