Los Angeles’ Palomino Club, opened in 1949 by western swing musician Hank Penny, was a showcase for a wide variety of roots music, from country to jazz to cow punk to alt-country. The Flying Burrito Brothers, Lucinda Williams, Dwight […]
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To paraphrase the Stephen Sondheim-penned lyric from Gypsy, everything’s coming up roots music festivals this spring. If it seems that the Through the Lens column has been featuring an endless stream of them lately, it’s because they are abundant […]
Somewhere in your home there’s probably a junk drawer housing your onetime constant companion, your iPod. The first iPod, in 2001, promised “1,000 songs in your pocket,” which absolutely blew our minds. Over the next two decades, Apple would […]
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was settling in, Dave Alvin was dealing with a much more personal health crisis. In January 2020, the singer-songwriter and Blasters co-founder was hospitalized for more than a week with a sepsis infection. Then […]
Folk Alliance International announced its International Folk Music Awards Best of 2021 nominees and lifetime achievement awards this afternoon in a YouTube broadcast. Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Awards, named for Folk Alliance’s co-founder, will be presented to accordionist Flaco […]
Virtual events haven’t gone away just yet — and I, for one, hope they continue to be presented, along with live shows. For concerts, they expand access to people who can’t easily get to a venue: music fans with disabilities, […]
As a reader of No Depression, you already know that Black artists are and always have been an important, foundational part of the country music story. A new documentary from Amazon Music aims to carry that message to an […]
Morgan Wallen was a surprise guest of country singer Ernest last weekend at the Grand Ole Opry, and while there was applause in the building, there was a much more negative reaction elsewhere — namely among Black country musicians […]
While radio and live performance show Mountain Stage has gone through quite a few changes over the years, 2021 brought substantial ones. After 38 years and more than 900 episodes, co-founder and host Larry Groce handed over full-time hosting […]
With the uncertainty of COVID-19 and its variants as a backdrop, how could there be good news in 2021? The good news is the year was an outstanding one for roots music releases. So many that one article, let […]
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