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JOURNAL EXCERPT: The People and Moments That Have Propelled Béla Fleck

JOURNAL EXCERPT: The People and Moments That Have Propelled Béla Fleck

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a profile in our Summer 2024 journal issue of the issue's guest editor, Béla Fleck. You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription to keep our

IBMA Announces Nominees for 2024 Bluegrass Music Awards + Hall of Fame Inductees

IBMA Announces Nominees for 2024 Bluegrass Music Awards + Hall of Fame Inductees

The International Bluegrass Music Association announced its 2024 award nominees live today from the SiriusXM studios in Nashville. The live announcement, helmed by SiriusXM host Joey Black and musicians Dailey & Vincent, also revealed the 2024 inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and IBMA’s Distinguished Achievement Award

SPOTLIGHT: Watch AJ Lee and Blue Summit Perform ‘Hillside’ 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level

SPOTLIGHT: Watch AJ Lee and Blue Summit Perform ‘Hillside’ 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level

EDITOR’S NOTE: AJ Lee and Blue Summit are No Depression’s Spotlight band for July 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, City of Glass (out July 19 on Signature Sounds) in our interview, and look for more all month long. AJ Lee and Blue Summit’s

BONUS TRACKS: 431 (!!!) Live Recordings from Bob Dylan

BONUS TRACKS: 431 (!!!) Live Recordings from Bob Dylan

Most live albums feature maybe a concert’s worth of songs, whether recorded all in one performance or collected from different points along a tour. But Bob Dylan isn’t most artists. His 1974 Live Recordings collection announced this week will deliver a whopping 431 tracks (the real number! not

SPOTLIGHT: AJ Lee and Blue Summit Take the Long View on Career and ‘City of Glass’

SPOTLIGHT: AJ Lee and Blue Summit Take the Long View on Career and ‘City of Glass’

EDITOR'S NOTE: AJ Lee and Blue Summit is No Depression's Spotlight band for July 2024. Look for more about them and their new album, City of Glass (out July 19 on Signature Sounds), all month long. Conventional wisdom would say it’s high time for AJ

BONUS TRACKS: Americana’s Latest Lifetime Achievers + More of the Week’s Music News

BONUS TRACKS: Americana’s Latest Lifetime Achievers + More of the Week’s Music News

In addition to Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and other annual awards to be bestowed at the Americana Honors & Awards show during AmericanaFest in September, the Americana Music Association will also honor several folks for lifetime achievements — and they’re not keeping us waiting on those.

Poet, Provocateur, and Would-Be Politician Kinky Friedman Dies at 79

Poet, Provocateur, and Would-Be Politician Kinky Friedman Dies at 79

Both Texas and tall tales are a little bit smaller today, with news that Richard "Kinky" Friedman has passed away. Friedman had Parkinson's disease, according to the Texas Tribune, and died at his home in Medina, Texas, at age 79. “Kinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow