Brad Wagner

Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion '25 drew us even deeper into the rich history of recorded music in the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee and Virginia. Nearly a century has passed since Ralph Peer's historic Bristol Sessions, and the performance space inside The Birthplace of Country Music Museum

Eugene Hütz from Gogol Bordello joined us at Chelsea Studios NYC with an acoustic guitar, a glass of wine, and the bones of two songs from We Mean It, Man! for our latest No Depression session. Opening with a stripped-down version of “Ignition,” Hütz makes clear that even at their

Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion '25 drew us even deeper into the rich history of recorded music in the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee and Virginia. Nearly a century has passed since Ralph Peer's historic Bristol Sessions, and the performance space inside of the The Birthplace of Country

Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion '25 drew us even deeper into the rich history of recorded music in the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee and Virginia. It's coming up on a century since Ralph Peer's 1927 Bristol Sessions introduced Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to

Courtney Marie Andrews joined us at Chelsea Studios NYC to share three songs from her new album Valentine (ND's album review here), along with album co-producer and guitarist Jerry Bernhardt. Her recent trip to NYC was packed with a variety of artistic expressions, including the unveiling of the

Fort Worth-bred singer-songwriter Alex Lambert visited us at The Red Building on Nashville's Music Row during AMERICANAFEST 2025 to share three new songs in their most basic form, just vocals and acoustic guitars. The stripped down arrangement naturally put Lambert's soulful rasp front and center in