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SPOTLIGHT: Community and Creativity Fuel Rainbow Girls’ ‘Welcome to Whatever’

SPOTLIGHT: Community and Creativity Fuel Rainbow Girls’ ‘Welcome to Whatever’

EDITOR’S NOTE: Rainbow Girls are No Depression’s Spotlight band for December 2023. Look for more about them and their new album, Welcome to Whatever, out today, all month long. Before they were Rainbow Girls, the band, they were Rainbow girls, fellow residents of the University of California at

BONUS TRACKS: Jimbo Hart Parts Ways With Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

BONUS TRACKS: Jimbo Hart Parts Ways With Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

After taking a leave of absence from playing bass with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit last summer, Jimbo Hart announced this week that he’s making that step away permanent. “I’m no longer a member of the 400 Unit,” Hart posted on X. “I’m grateful for all

BONUS TRACKS: The Full Story of Folk Music

BONUS TRACKS: The Full Story of Folk Music

No Depression readers know that Black musicians have always been essential to the story of roots music, and now the rest of the world is starting to take notice. An article last week in T, The New York Times Style Magazine, traces the contributions of Black folk musicians from the

Amos Lee Celebrates Songs and ‘Singular’ Talent of Lucinda Williams

Amos Lee Celebrates Songs and ‘Singular’ Talent of Lucinda Williams

Amos Lee’s relationship with Lucinda Williams was personal even before he got to meet her. He first heard her songs, mostly from her then-new Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, on radio station WXPN in Philadelphia, just as he was starting to write songs himself. But he hesitates to

SPOTLIGHT: What Jaime Wyatt Sees in The Grateful Dead’s ‘Althea’ [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: What Jaime Wyatt Sees in The Grateful Dead’s ‘Althea’ [VIDEO]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jaime Wyatt is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for November 2023. Learn more about her and her new album, Feel Good, in our interview, and look for more later in the month. While many of the songs on Jaime Wyatt’s third studio album, Feel Good, reflect

And the 2024 (Roots Music) Grammy Nominees Are …

And the 2024 (Roots Music) Grammy Nominees Are …

Unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift’s name comes up a lot in the 2024 Grammy nominations, announced this morning in Los Angeles. You can read all about that, well, anywhere. But here at No Depression, we want to take you right to the really good stuff — nominees you’ve been reading about

BONUS TRACKS: How Jeff Tweedy Learned to Love ‘Dancing Queen’

BONUS TRACKS: How Jeff Tweedy Learned to Love ‘Dancing Queen’

In an essay for The New York Times adapted from his brand new book, World Within a Song, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy lets us in on a little secret: He’s really come around after a lifetime of hating ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.” When we’re young — this was true