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Hilary Saunders

JOURNAL EXCERPT: George Harrison’s Legacy of Spirituality, Music, and Activism Carries On

JOURNAL EXCERPT: George Harrison’s Legacy of Spirituality, Music, and Activism Carries On

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Winter 2021 journal, “Good News.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music journalism, in print and online, all year

The FreshGrass Foundation Partners with Rhiannon Giddens-led Silkroad for New Music

The FreshGrass Foundation Partners with Rhiannon Giddens-led Silkroad for New Music

The FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression’s nonprofit publisher) and Silkroad announced a new collaboration today, in which the two organizations will partner to create a complete program of new music titled The American Railroad. Founded by 18-time Grammy award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, Silkroad is a

Dave Hause’s ‘Blood Harmony’ Is a Defiant Welcome to Americana

Dave Hause’s ‘Blood Harmony’ Is a Defiant Welcome to Americana

Dave Hause used to be a hardcore kid. Having grown up in Philadelphia, he spent his 20s playing in punk groups like The Loved Ones and The Falcon (a supergroup with members of The Lawrence Arms and Alkaline Trio). Even in his early solo career, which began in 2011 with

FreshGrass Festival Celebrates 10 Years in North Adams, Massachusetts

FreshGrass Festival Celebrates 10 Years in North Adams, Massachusetts

The annual FreshGrass Festival — produced by No Depression’s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation — celebrated a giant return to live music this past weekend. After pausing for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the three-day festival roared back with more than two dozen roots music performers across

Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies at Age 68

Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies at Age 68

Renowned Texas singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died in Nashville at the age of 68, Rounder Records has confirmed. No cause of death was announced. Griffith, who released 18 studio albums (two of her final three came out on Rounder) over the course of her five-decade career, performed in

Rodrigo Amarante’s ‘Drama’ Sounds Surprisingly Calm

Rodrigo Amarante’s ‘Drama’ Sounds Surprisingly Calm

Rio de Janeiro-born singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante’s second solo LP, Drama, opens with a brief, instrumental, eponymous track. Sounds of canned laughter, artificial applause, and raindrops hitting a tin roof crackle through stereo speakers, offering a variegated preface to the 11-track record. It’s easy to get

St. Lenox Explores Complexities of Faith on ‘Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times’

St. Lenox Explores Complexities of Faith on ‘Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times’

Andrew Choi works full-time as a lawyer in midtown Manhattan, but he’s also a classically trained violinist and formidable singer-songwriter with four records under his moniker, St. Lenox. His newest, Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times (which follows the same title structure as