Kim Ruehl

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

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaia Kater is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2024. Look for more about her and her new album, Strange Medicine (out May 17 on Free Dirt Records), all month long. There’s a video clip of the great pianist Herbie Hancock in which he shares