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Emotional and Geographic Changes Helped Margo Cilker Make New LP ‘Little White Cross’

Emotional and Geographic Changes Helped Margo Cilker Make New LP ‘Little White Cross’

There comes a time in the journey of many singer-songwriters when they find themselves drawn to Texas. “Choosin’ Texas,” this is not. It’s chasing the ghosts of its famous (and sometimes infamous) songwriters — Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Joe Ely, Doug Sahm, and a myriad of others. It’

SPOTLIGHT: Sera Cahoone Returns to Center Stage With Patient LP 'I've Missed You All These Years'

SPOTLIGHT: Sera Cahoone Returns to Center Stage With Patient LP 'I've Missed You All These Years'

Editor's Note: Sera Cahoone, whose new LP titled I've Missed You All These Years is due out August 28 via SubPop Records, is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for August 2026. Read on to learn more about the percussionist and singer-songwriter and stay tuned

SPOTLIGHT: Sabine McCalla Is Free To Be Herself

SPOTLIGHT: Sabine McCalla Is Free To Be Herself

Editor's Note: Sabine McCalla, whose debut LP Don’t Call Me Baby came out November 7 via Gar Hole Records, is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for November 2025. Stay tuned for more from McCalla all month long. New Orleans as artistic muse is hardly a new

SPOTLIGHT: Dean Johnson’s Journey from Seattle Bartender to Beloved Indie Folksinger

SPOTLIGHT: Dean Johnson’s Journey from Seattle Bartender to Beloved Indie Folksinger

Editor's Note: Dean Johnson is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for August 2025. Learn more about the Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter and his new album I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, due out August 22 via Saddle Creek, in this feature. Keep an eye out for

Hearts of Oak Take Outlaw Country Into Shoegaze Territory with 'Moves'

Hearts of Oak Take Outlaw Country Into Shoegaze Territory with 'Moves'

Portland, Oregon has its fair share of country and Americana-style bands – perhaps more than most people might think – but one of the standouts has long been an outfit called Hearts of Oak. On their fourth album, Moves, the band ventures into more psychedelic landscape as they fuse country, folk

The Underdogs of Seventies Country Rock

The Underdogs of Seventies Country Rock

In the late Sixties Gram Parsons came up with the term Cosmic American Music as a more eloquent and hippie-dippie way to describe the type of music he was making. Gram despised the term “country-rock” and felt his term was a more accurate if not generalized way to

Whiskey Shivers Bring "Trashgrass" To The People

Whiskey Shivers Bring "Trashgrass" To The People

Donning his signature shoeless and shirtless attire, fiddler and singer Bobby Fitzgerald carries a playful country sensibility as he swaps stories of the road with his bandmates. The members of Whiskey Shivers are backstage at Austin’s Red 7, ready to open for the Legendary Shack Shakers. The mood is