Rose McCord is on the run, though it’s not until two-thirds of the way through Run Rose Run: A Novel (Little, Brown) — the sedate, button-downed, and clichéd thriller by Dolly Parton and James Patterson — that we discover why […]
Every month, the No Depression team compiles a list of our favorite songs from the month’s new releases. February saw highlights from Spotlight artist Erin Rae (read more about her in this feature profile), as well as selections from albums we […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Winter 2021 journal, “Good News.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music […]
Still-life paintings portray stasis, but, in Dallas Frazier’s words: “beneath still waters, there’s a strong undertow.” These paintings owe their entrancing beauty to the ambivalent tensions that crack and bubble just below their staid surface. The title track of Carson […]
Do we really need a new biography of Merle Haggard? Haggard himself left us with two autobiographies: Sing Me Back Home: My Life (1981) and My House of Memories (2002). Since the second was written 14 years before his death […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Black Opry founder Holly G wrote this essay about building community in the face of country music’s systemic racism for our Winter 2021 “Good News” issue, and we’re sharing it online in the wake of Morgan Wallen’s surprise […]
Over the past two years, we have endured the ravages of a pandemic, the miasma of political and social chaos, and the devastation of loss, often obscuring hope in a dark hopelessness that endures even into this season of light. […]
It’s hardly a surprise anymore when a big-name artist sells their catalog to a corporation for millions of dollars. It’s hard to blame them as times get harder and harder for musicians. With a long touring drought amid COVID-19 […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
Well, I suppose this book had to be published. Two years ago, we got the lowdown on the religious life and times, so to speak, of Johnny Cash when Richard Beck examined 15 of Cash’s songs in Trains, Jesus, and […]
