Dida Pelled's Top 5 Songs Right Now EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the chance to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through the days. This installment comes from
NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Chelsea Studios NYC: John Gallagher Jr. Multi-hyphenate artist John Gallagher Jr. shared three songs with us at Chelsea Studios NYC to celebrate the arrival of his brand new EP Almost OK, out today! Opening with the EP’s first track, “Tough Spit,” Gallagher described the song as an attempt to capture the manic feeling of endlessly
Marisa Anderson Brings a World of ‘UnAmerican’ Music To Her Guitar The first arrangement that instrumentalist guitarist and songwriter Marisa Anderson completed for The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1 is a song called “Hamd.” The original version, known as “Mamoor Ho Raha Hai,” is an ecstatic, 18-minute Sufi Qawali by the legendary Sabri Brothers of Pakistan. It features 10