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Hilary Saunders

HELLO STRANGER: Introducing No Depression's Spring 2024 Journal + Playlist

HELLO STRANGER: Introducing No Depression's Spring 2024 Journal + Playlist

EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our Spring 2024 quarterly journal, featuring guest editors The Bacon Brothers and original cover art by singer-songwriter Joan Osborne. Buy the Spring 2024 issue in print or digitally here. Better yet, start a subscription with this issue and help

No Depression’s Best of February 2024 Playlist

No Depression’s Best of February 2024 Playlist

Even in a leap year, the short month of February was long in roots music releases. Spotlight artist Madi Diaz eases listeners into this month's playlist, before a strong cadre of bluegrass representation from musicians like double bass leader Missy Raines, banjo icon Béla Fleck (interpolating composer George

No Depression's Best of January 2024 Playlist

No Depression's Best of January 2024 Playlist

January can be quite the slog after a busy holiday season, so mostly I've been wishing folks a "gentle" entry into the new year. Luckily, roots musicians provided not just gentle, but rollicking and thoughtful songs to ease into 2024: Spotlight artist Lizzie No traverses a

No Depression and Music Maker Foundation to Release 'Song Keepers' Book and Compilation

No Depression and Music Maker Foundation to Release 'Song Keepers' Book and Compilation

If the Music Maker Foundation sounds familiar, it should. The North Carolina-based nonprofit organization — which, according to its mission, "meets the day-to-day needs of the artists who create traditional American music, ensures their voices are heard, and gives all people access to our nation’s hidden

ALBUM REVIEW: Lau Noah’s Duets LP ‘A DOS’ Shines in Its Dualisms

ALBUM REVIEW: Lau Noah’s Duets LP ‘A DOS’ Shines in Its Dualisms

Catalan singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Lau Noah’s first full-length album, A DOS, is one of duets. It’s a bold choice, considering most solo acts first try to make a name for themselves on their own. But it’s also a wildly clever idea: With collaborators like Chris

The Avett Brothers' Songs Get Theatrical Treatment in 'Swept Away'

The Avett Brothers' Songs Get Theatrical Treatment in 'Swept Away'

John Gallagher Jr. lays prostrate on stage. He’s wearing a dirtied face mask over a scraggly beard he’s been growing out since August and is on a makeshift hospital bed beneath the cover of tattered blankets. Gallagher has been hiding in plain sight for half an hour before

ALBUM REVIEW: Burgeoning Singer-Songwriter Fenne Lily Captures the Details and the ‘Big Picture’

ALBUM REVIEW: Burgeoning Singer-Songwriter Fenne Lily Captures the Details and the ‘Big Picture’

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the end of the year approaches, we’re taking a look back at albums we weren’t able to review when they first came out. Big Picture was released in April. Lately it seems like there are more and more singer-songwriters blending breathy folk songs