Clockwise from top left, The Steel Wheels, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Madi Diaz, Béla Fleck, Corb Lund, and Missy Raines are among the artists with February 2024 releases featured in our Best of the Month Spotify playlist.
Even in a leap year, the short month of February was long in roots music releases. Spotlight artist Madi Diaz eases listeners into this month’s playlist, before a strong cadre of bluegrass representation from musicians like double bass leader Missy Raines, banjo icon Béla Fleck (interpolating composer George Gershwin, at that!), Baltimore’s Charm City Junction, and more.
February saw a strong collection of covers, including an unexpected version of Death Cab For Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” by Luke Sital-Singh and Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” by Leon Bridges. The American Patchwork Quartet, which you can read more about here, also reinterpreted 14 Western folk, blues, and old-time standards.
For more on these and other roots artists, check out the Reviews section and tune in to No Depression‘s Best of the Month playlist below.
