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The No Depression Community's Top 20 Albums of the Decade

The No Depression Community's Top 20 Albums of the Decade

Coming up with this community's Top 20 Albums of the Decade was a little more complicated than compiling the communal votes for the Best of 2009. Most of you agreed on artists whose albums had helped define the decade, but there was much less agreement about specific albums

No Depression Festival Lineup Announcement

No Depression Festival Lineup Announcement

2009 No Depression Festival Announcement It's our great pleasure to announce the lineup for the first ever No Depression Festival, featuring Gillian Welch, Iron & Wine, Patterson Hood & the Screwtopians, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Lea Mayfield, a Seattle roots-music all-star revue,

Americana and alt-country radio stations - online and terrestrial

One of our great hopes for this site is that it might become a comprehensive resource for the greater roots music community. This includes a list of radio stations and DJs, as well as venues, festivals, and other resources. We're thrilled that these conversations have popped up on

Dierks Bentley - Are you ready for the country?

Like a lot of music-crazed friends of mine have done over the years, he showed up just a little bit late, because he was curious to hear – no, needed to hear – that new album by Shooter Jennings, Waylon's son, which was just out. And while he was picking

David Olney – Character study

David Olney – Character study

In her fine new biography of the great Sandy Koufax, writer Jane Leavy describes a poster of the legendary pitcher that former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky used to keep pinned to the door of his office at the University of California at Berkeley. Capturing Koufax at the midpoint

Connie Smith: Too Cool to be Forgotten

By 1979, after slowly weaning herself off the road, Smith quit the business to stay at home with her kids, who now numbered five. Feminists painted her as a reactionary, as a successful woman who had forsaken her career. Looking back now, though, Smith’s decision seems a gutsy one;

Steve Earle / Buddy & Julie Miller - The Phoenix (Toronto, Ontario)

This is a live review from a performance on January 27, 1998 As dramatic spectacles go, it would be hard to top the opening moments of Steve Earle's Toronto stop on the El Corazon tour. At 9 p.m. EST, U.S. President Bill Clinton was before Congress,