Today might be April Fool’s Day, but last month’s playlist is no joke. March 2025 saw the return of some of roots music’s biggest stars like Jason Isbell and Alison Krauss and Union Station. Additionally, ever-prolific Charley Crockett released his […]
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, […]
What counts as “classic country” music today is very much an eye-of-the-beholder sort of thing, but for a great many people, artists like Vincent Neil Emerson truly fit the bill. An Indigenous American with Choctaw-Apache lineage, Emerson is steeped in […]
Rodney Crowell working with Jeff Tweedy seems like a match made in musical heaven. Both are meticulous songwriters who spin dazzling tales of despair, loss, joy, and hope, and they both deliver just the right music the lyrics demand. […]
Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell certainly doesn’t need help putting together an album, but for his new project, The Chicago Sessions, he enlisted Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy as producer, co-writer on one of the songs, instrumentalist throughout the album, and a good […]
In the US this week, it’s time to fill up. On food, on family, on Black Friday deals, and, if you want, on vinyl! Record Store Day Black Friday is designed to divert some of the money flying out of […]
Continuing his commitment to making albums that honor his heroes, Steve Earle announced today that his next album, coming May 27, will spotlight the songs of Jerry Jeff Walker, who died in 2020. “This record completes the set, the […]
I had the chance to chat with Steve Earle for the Summer 2019 No Depression journal. While our conversation focused on Guy, his album of Guy Clark covers released that spring, we skimmed the surface of several topics that weren’t […]
The mid-1970s were not a fertile time for Townes Van Zandt’s recording career. Though he had released six albums by 1972’s The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, its follow-up, Flyin’ Shoes, wouldn’t see the light of day until 1978. In […]
Just as there’s always something new under the sun, there is always new music on the horizon. Here are six upcoming or recent releases that I am excited about, including a few Record Store Day releases that should be on […]
