Stacy Chandler

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sam Bush is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for November 2022. Learn more about him and his new album, Radio John: Songs of John Hartford, in our Spotlight interview. When Sam Bush set about selecting songs for his tribute to his friend John Hartford, he went mostly

Two banjo players have joined the ranks of those honored with the prestigious Steve Martin Banjo Prize, now in its 12th year. Actor and musician Martin and the board of the banjo prize named Bill Evans and Enda Scahill as the 2022 recipients Thursday. Each will receive an award of

Most teenagers don’t take kindly to musical suggestions from their dad, but when Seth Avett’s father suggested he listen to a song by Greg Brown he’d recently heard on public radio’s Prairie Home Companion, Avett paid attention. The song was “Boomtown,” a scorching social commentary about

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sam Bush is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for November 2022. Look for more about him and his new album, Radio John: Songs of John Hartford, all month long. Growing up on a farm outside Bowling Green, Kentucky, Sam Bush and his family tuned into a Nashville-

We love Lucinda Williams’ songs because of the vivid characters and settings within them (and because of the way she sings them), and now she’s telling her own story in a memoir titled Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, coming next April. The book, whose title