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SPOTLIGHT: ‘Like Sucking the Poison from a Snake Bite,’ Allison Russell Shares Her Story on ‘Outside Child’

SPOTLIGHT: ‘Like Sucking the Poison from a Snake Bite,’ Allison Russell Shares Her Story on ‘Outside Child’

EDITOR’S NOTE: Allison Russell is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Outside Child, out May 21 on Fantasy Records, all month long. Allison Russell’s first solo album, Outside Child, soars on wings of resilience and redemption, but not

THE READING ROOM: Richard Thompson Reflects on Fairport Convention, Songwriting, and More

THE READING ROOM: Richard Thompson Reflects on Fairport Convention, Songwriting, and More

The best music memoirs simply unfold the moments of an artist’s life, without fanfare and without a desire to get even with former bandmates or friends. The best memoirs reveal to us — and revel in — what the Romantic poet William Wordsworth called “spots of time,” those moments that stand

'First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder' Shows Todd Snider's Carnivalesque World

'First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder' Shows Todd Snider's Carnivalesque World

Todd Snider’s made a career of skewering our inflated ideas of ourselves and getting back to the bones of emotion and ragged humor of existence. He’s a reliable narrator to turn the world upside down in his lyrics, offering his own nod-and-a-wink take on both his own shortcomings

THE READING ROOM: Get to Know Zilphia Horton, An Activist Who Used Music to Make ‘A Singing Army’

THE READING ROOM: Get to Know Zilphia Horton, An Activist Who Used Music to Make ‘A Singing Army’

Over Labor Day weekend in 1941, photographer Edward Weston and his wife, Charis, the sister of Highlander Folk School’s librarian, Leon Wilson, stopped at the school for a visit. Weston was traveling across the country taking photographs to accompany a special edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

THE READING ROOM: Brandi Carlile Lets Her Story Run Free in Warm, Honest ‘Broken Horses’

THE READING ROOM: Brandi Carlile Lets Her Story Run Free in Warm, Honest ‘Broken Horses’

Brandi Carlile knows how to captivate; she invites us into her songs with her ability to evoke feelings of isolation and loss, forgiveness and hope, love and joy. Carlile entrances us with her stories of people just like us, facing the same challenges and losses, the same comforts and victories,

THE READING ROOM: Jacksonville’s Turn in the Southern Rock Spotlight

THE READING ROOM: Jacksonville’s Turn in the Southern Rock Spotlight

A few years ago, musician Marty Jourard, a Gainesville, Florida, native, made the case in Music Everywhere: The Rock and Roll Roots of a Southern Town (ND review) that Gainesville was the crossroads of rock and roll. In the mid- and late ’60s, a number of musicians, some of them

Jason Ringenberg Rocks Again on ‘Rhinestoned’

Jason Ringenberg Rocks Again on ‘Rhinestoned’

Jason Ringenberg is back, following his 2017 album, Stand Tall, and in top form with a collection of romping rockers. Fueled by his prowling rhythm guitar and his shimmering lead runs, they careen around the corners of social issues, lost love, the wreckage of cities, and the ghosts of the