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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

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

'Music Confounds the Machines': T Bone Burnett's Keynote Speech at AmericanaFest

'Music Confounds the Machines': T Bone Burnett's Keynote Speech at AmericanaFest

Everyone's talking about the great speech T Bone Burnett gave as the keynote address to AmericanaFest yesterday. If you missed it, here's the transcript (posted with permission from the Americana Music Association): I have come here today first to bring you love. I have come here

Todd Snider and his "Mostly True Tall Tales"

Todd Snider and his "Mostly True Tall Tales"

The other day, I was hassling a friend of mine about taking his sweet time to read singer-songwriter Todd Snider’s new book, I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like: Mostly True Tall Tales. “I might just quit reading this Merle Haggard bio and go buy the