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Alison Krauss on Daydreams, Tony Rice, and the Road to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame

Alison Krauss on Daydreams, Tony Rice, and the Road to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame

The only surprise when Alison Krauss was announced among the 2021 inductees to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame was that she wasn’t already in. So many women who play or just love the music got into it because of Krauss, who began leading bands barely into her teen years

SPOTLIGHT: Charley Crockett Finds His Place on 'Are We Lonesome Yet' [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Charley Crockett Finds His Place on 'Are We Lonesome Yet' [VIDEO]

EDITOR'S NOTE: Charley Crockett is No Depression's Spotlight artist for September. Read our interview with him about his new album, Music City USA, and get another taste of his storytelling here. Below, he shares a performance of one of the songs from the album just for

The Barefoot Movement Bends Bluegrass Toward Fresh Territory on ‘Pressing Onward’

The Barefoot Movement Bends Bluegrass Toward Fresh Territory on ‘Pressing Onward’

If you catch The Barefoot Movement at a bluegrass festival, you’re going to get the standard blazing fast instrumental runs in traded-off solos, beautiful harmonies, love songs and heartbreak songs. But what you won’t get is bored. Members of the band, founded in North Carolina in 2006, are

AJ Lee and Blue Summit Drive Bluegrass Onward and Upward on ‘I’ll Come Back’

AJ Lee and Blue Summit Drive Bluegrass Onward and Upward on ‘I’ll Come Back’

They say you’ve got to know the rules before you can break the rules, and bluegrass is the perfect proving ground for how far that mindset can go. AJ Lee and Blue Summit have been honing their bluegrass bona fides for most of their young lives — including several individual

Kacey Musgraves Reveals New Album: ‘star-crossed’

Kacey Musgraves Reveals New Album: ‘star-crossed’

You didn’t think Kacey Musgraves was just going to release an album like a regular artist, did you? The six-time Grammy winner announced today, after several days of social media hint-dropping, that her fourth album, star-crossed, is coming Sept. 10 — as is a companion film that will run on

Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies at Age 68

Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies at Age 68

Renowned Texas singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died in Nashville at the age of 68, Rounder Records has confirmed. No cause of death was announced. Griffith, who released 18 studio albums (two of her final three came out on Rounder) over the course of her five-decade career, performed in a range

SPOTLIGHT: Amythyst Kiah Sends a Flare from Rock Bottom in 'Firewater' [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Amythyst Kiah Sends a Flare from Rock Bottom in 'Firewater' [VIDEO]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Amythyst Kiah is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2021. Her new album, Wary + Strange, comes out this Friday on Rounder Records. Read our interview with Kiah here, and look for more about her and the new record all month long. “Melancholy always seemed to work