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ALBUM REVIEW: Love in Every Detail of Buck Meek’s Richly Painted ‘Haunted Mountain’

ALBUM REVIEW: Love in Every Detail of Buck Meek’s Richly Painted ‘Haunted Mountain’

Buck Meek sees love in everything, it seems. On his latest solo outing, Haunted Mountain, it looks like things both eternal and ephemeral, surrounding him like a hypnotic haze. Jewelry, nature, vistas, drawings, clothing — all become more beautiful, it turns out, when you’re in love, and it’s through

SPOTLIGHT: Raye Zaragoza Finds Her Own Way Through Womanhood

SPOTLIGHT: Raye Zaragoza Finds Her Own Way Through Womanhood

EDITOR’S NOTE: Raye Zaragoza is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for August 2023. Learn more about her and her new album, Hold That Spirit (out Aug. 11 on Rebel River Records), all month long. “We have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong,” goes

ALBUM REVIEW: ‘And Southern Star’ Finds Mikaela Davis at Home With Harp and Harmonies

ALBUM REVIEW: ‘And Southern Star’ Finds Mikaela Davis at Home With Harp and Harmonies

To play and maneuver an instrument like the harp is a feat, but to do so while simultaneously singing elegant, shimmering harmonies is a mesmerizing skill to behold. Mikaela Davis makes it look easy at the transportive live shows she has become known for putting on with her band in

ALBUM REVIEW: Cut Worms' Self-Titled Stands As a Reminder of Sweetness

ALBUM REVIEW: Cut Worms' Self-Titled Stands As a Reminder of Sweetness

In 2020, Max Clarke, who records under the name Cut Worms, released a kind of opus. A double album steeped in detail, Nobody Lives Here Anymore listened like a thick tome, filled with stories of a bygone era. It suited the moment, when there was nothing but idle time to

ALBUM REVIEW: Lukas Nelson Throws a Party on ‘Sticks and Stones’

ALBUM REVIEW: Lukas Nelson Throws a Party on ‘Sticks and Stones’

Lukas Nelson has decided to give the people what they want. In the wake of the pandemic, as live music trickled back, he noticed his fans were itching to hear the kind of upbeat, good-time tunes they could sing along and slosh their beers to, put their differences aside, and

SPOTLIGHT: On Gabe Lee’s ‘Drink the River,’ Connection Flows Through Stories

SPOTLIGHT: On Gabe Lee’s ‘Drink the River,’ Connection Flows Through Stories

EDITOR’S NOTE: Gabe Lee is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for July 2023. Learn more about Lee and his new album, Drink the River (out July 14 via Torrez Music Group), all month long. There is a moment in nearly every song on Gabe Lee’s new record, Drink

ALBUM REVIEW: Bonny Doon Makes Room for Unabashed Joy

ALBUM REVIEW: Bonny Doon Makes Room for Unabashed Joy

There can be plenty of skepticism around joy, like it’s too pure, too earnest a feeling to be real. But when you give yourself over to it, as Detroit trio Bonny Doon seem to on their new album, the reward is worth it. Let There Be Music is the