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SPOTLIGHT VIDEO: Rising Appalachia Song Urges Us to ‘Harmonize’

SPOTLIGHT VIDEO: Rising Appalachia Song Urges Us to ‘Harmonize’

Leylines, the brand new album from ND’s May Spotlight band, Rising Appalachia, is filled with songs about connections. (The album title itself refers to a belief in lines of spiritual energy that connect places around the world.) Here’s the duo, sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, on one such

Museum Exhibition Puts Scott Avett’s Visual Art in the Spotlight

Museum Exhibition Puts Scott Avett’s Visual Art in the Spotlight

Even as the spotlight has shone brightly on The Avett Brothers’ music for the past two decades, Scott Avett has been making another kind of art all the while. His visual art — paintings and prints that explore his own busy mind, often at a gigantic scale — is getting its first

The Well Pennies Take Joyous Flight on 'Murmurations'

The Well Pennies Take Joyous Flight on 'Murmurations'

For their second full-length album, Murmurations, The Well Pennies have their eyes on the skies. The album’s title comes from the name for swooping swarms of starlings that form for no reason we humans know and move according to rules also hidden to us. The stars and the moon

Sam Bush Shares Photos from His Personal Collection

Sam Bush Shares Photos from His Personal Collection

It's hard not to smile when you watch Sam Bush play. Joy pours out of his body and shines through every note, lifting up everyone around him, whether they're on stage, front row, or deep into a vast festival audience. He's played with just

Your 50 Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018

Your 50 Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018

Starting in January, with releases from folks like Anderson East, First Aid Kit, Steep Canyon Rangers, Mary Gauthier, and Calexico, and all the way through the past few weeks, 2018 has seemed like a nonstop firehose blast of new roots music. And we’re not complaining! There wasn’t a

Lucero Goes Literary

Lucero Goes Literary

On their ninth studio album, rock/alt-country quintet Lucero decided that instead of recording stories, they needed to engage them. Among the Ghosts departs from the familiar Memphis style of their earlier arrangements – the blaring bluesy horns and blues-infused riffs – in search of a deeper, more intensely introspective approach rooted

Blowing on Embers: The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris on Writing with Others

Blowing on Embers: The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris on Writing with Others

This month we’re launching a new feature at No Depression— Spotlight — to help you get to know some of the best bands in roots music, and we couldn’t be more excited to get started by getting to know the Jayhawks. Since blasting out of the Minneapolis music scene