Kim Ruehl

News broke this morning about the next big roots music name to make an appearance in the Broadway production of Hadestown. Singer-songwriter Allison Russell will reportedly enter the role of Persephone beginning November 12. The role has played host to a string of beloved singer-songwriters over the past year or

Over the last couple of years, we've been checking in with singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker, whose 2023 release, What Is It, Even? saw him diving into the Deep End with former ND Assistant Editor Stacy Chandler. In her write-up, our colleague called Walker's work on the

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt of a story from our Summer 2021 journal issue, exploring the theme of “Voices.” We share it today in honor of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who passed away this week at the age of 81. Reagon is featured in this piece written by

As singer-songwriters who began their careers in the 1960s go, Joni Mitchell is one of the more mythologized. Numerous books have been published about her, granted, but they typically follow the traditional biography route, as though examining and re-examining the same set of stories about her boyfriends and creative meanderings

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaitlin Butts is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2024. Look for more on Butts and her new album, Roadrunner! (out June 28 on Soundly Music), all month long. The great state of Oklahoma has long been the starting point for generations of rootsy artists — Woody