Chuck Armstrong

To simply call his voice deep or gruff doesn't do it justice. What emanates from Riley Downing's vocal cords is a timeless reverberation, one that is soaked in the long, laboring days of a Midwestern life; the voice not of a god, but of a man

At the end of his new record, Born Against, Amigo the Devil — also known as songwriter and musician Danny Kiranos — sings, "When the darkness of the tunnel is the last place I go, you're the closest thing to heaven I'll ever need." The lyrics

If you were to judge Shovels & Rope's new record by its cover, you wouldn’t be wrong to think it was a full-blown kid’s album. As the third release in their cover series known as Busted Jukebox, this volume is affectionately nicknamed "Busted Juicebox"

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 published, including what it meant for Earle to

In 1999, Red Dirt pioneers The Great Divide signed with Atlantic Records and released their debut major-label album, Revolutions. On the opening track, "Yesterday Road," frontman and chief songwriter Mike McClure weaves a relatable tale about confronting change and looking back on the way things once were. Now,

At the end of the Bible, John the Revelator writes one of the most apocalyptic, prophetic pieces of text in history. Though the book of Revelation is full of images and stories that conjure visions of the end of times, it also presents the culmination of this world as being