Brad Wagner

Hiss Golden Messenger bandleader, singer and songwriter M.C. Taylor joined us at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge for his No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24, to share three songs including two from his latest record, Jump For Joy. We snuck this session in before business hours at

Holler Choir Copy + Video (photo attached, credit John DuPre)Asheville’s Holler Choir joined us at Jaan's House for their No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24, to share three songs from their debut record, Songs Before They Write Themselves. Please enjoy this performance, and stay tuned for

Charlottesville native fiddler Bronwyn Keith-Hynes joined us at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24, to share four songs from her debut vocal album I Built A World, which just earned her a 2025 GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Please

East Texas folk-blues master Ruthie Foster joined us at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24, to share three songs including two from her tenth studio album Mileage, which just earned her a 2025 GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album. I

Harlem-born blues vocal powerhouse Shemekia Copeland joined us at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24 to share three songs, including the title track of the new album Blame It On Eve, which just earned her three GRAMMY nominations. Copeland says of

Alabama singer-songwriter Kashus Culpepper joined us in the Record Room at Jaan's House in Nashville for his No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24. Culpepper performed three songs in his inimitable way, voice full of sandpaper and gravel, building intensity and volume until peaking with the final refrain