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EDITOR’S NOTE: Sara Watkins is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for March 2021. Look for more about her and her new album, Under the Pepper Tree (out March 26), all month long. The pepper trees that grow in Southern California loom large in Sara Watkins’ childhood memories. “Growing up,

“Why write a song, why create such a thing / When you could just speak what you’re trying to sing?” The War and Treaty’s Michael Trotter poses that question in a rap in the bridge to “The Song About Songs,” the opening track to The Bright Siders’ new album,

EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. Find other stories in the series here. The door to the House of Songs first opened when its founder, Troy Campbell, was in the

The new year has rung in with good tidings of a new project from Loretta Lynn. Still Woman Enough, coming out March 19, is a studio album celebrating women in country music, according to a news release from Legacy Recordings. Across 13 tracks, she reimagines some of her own iconic