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Stacy Chandler

Inside American Aquarium’s ’90s Country Labor of Love

Inside American Aquarium’s ’90s Country Labor of Love

They say the songs you hear in adolescence are the ones that stick with you, resonating over the rest of your life and, of course, embedding their lyrics forever in your brain. For American Aquarium bandleader BJ Barham, those songs were the country radio hits pouring out of the family

BONUS TRACKS: Another Grammy Gaffe, An Avett Brothers Musical, and the Saving of a Sticker Wall

BONUS TRACKS: Another Grammy Gaffe, An Avett Brothers Musical, and the Saving of a Sticker Wall

The Grammys just can’t seem to get it right. First Kacey Musgraves isn’t country, and Bo Burnham isn’t comedy, and now Brandi Carlile — the Americana Music Association’s Artist of the Year for the past two years — isn’t “American Roots.” Or at least her song “Right

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,

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