Hilary Saunders

EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our Summer 2024 quarterly journal, featuring guest editor Béla Fleck, original cover art by Ian Felice of The Felice Brothers, and so much more. Buy the Summer 2024 issue in print or digitally here. Better yet, start a subscription with

The 77th annual Tony Awards took place last night, and unsuspecting TV audiences may have met a denim-clad troupe performing distinctly rootsy music on the recreation of a Broadway stage with some skepticism. But for musical theater fans, seeing the company of The Outsiders — with music co-written by country-Americana band

If you subscribe to No Depression in print (which you should), you know that the opening letter from the editor is called "Hello Stranger" after The Carter Family's song from 1937. Likewise, this month's playlist opens with a new version of the song by

Although the FreshGrass Festival is still relatively new to Bentonville, Arkansas — its fourth edition took place last weekend — many of the performers are old friends of the FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression’s nonprofit publisher). Singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan, who has played every FreshGrass in North Adams, Massachusetts, played Arkansas for

It’s no easy feat to be a band for 30 years. Longevity in the music industry requires a fickle combination of skill, adaptability, dedication, and luck. Guster, it seems, has found it all. As the legend goes, Guster formed at Tufts University in Boston in 1991 and got its