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Andrew Bird Trio Opens the Great American Songbook on New Album ‘Sunday Morning Put-On’

Andrew Bird Trio Opens the Great American Songbook on New Album ‘Sunday Morning Put-On’

For his new album, Sunday Morning Put-On, Andrew Bird is looking back to the classics. The Great American Songbook figures prominently on the album, coming out May 24 via Loma Vista Records, and in Bird’s own musical foundations, too. “When I was in my 20s, I lived in an

In the Deep End With Alejandro Escovedo

In the Deep End With Alejandro Escovedo

A funny thing happened on Alejandro Escovedo’s way to the studio. As he was en route to Italy to record an album of new songs formed largely through improvisation, he listened back to Por Vida, a 2003 tribute album made by friends and admirers to provide financial support and

BONUS TRACKS: New Music Documentaries and a Songwriter with 24,000 Songs

BONUS TRACKS: New Music Documentaries and a Songwriter with 24,000 Songs

We’ve covered some very prolific songwriters at No Depression, but none of them hold a candle, numbers-wise, to Matt Farley. Farley, under various artist names, has written more than 24,000 songs, all uploaded to Spotify, which is exactly the point. The aim is to create songs that come

ALBUM REVIEW: What to Make of Oliver Anthony’s ‘Hymnal of a Troubled Man’s Mind’

ALBUM REVIEW: What to Make of Oliver Anthony’s ‘Hymnal of a Troubled Man’s Mind’

It feels almost like a fever dream. That one weekend last August when a mysterious singer in Virginia launched his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” into the stratosphere. The song went viral immediately, and within a week of its release it had been streamed 17.5 million times and

BONUS TRACKS: The Philanthropy of Billy Strings and a Farewell to County Sales

BONUS TRACKS: The Philanthropy of Billy Strings and a Farewell to County Sales

Billy Strings has a long tradition of giving back. His String the Halls holiday shows have benefited the Nashville Rescue Mission, and in 2021, he brought a truckload of new guitars to his old elementary school in Michigan to give students a chance at the delight the instrument has brought

Despairing Over Erosion of Women’s Rights, Dawn Landes Finds Sisterhood in a Songbook

Despairing Over Erosion of Women’s Rights, Dawn Landes Finds Sisterhood in a Songbook

On the hot summer night that word of the Supreme Court’s impending decision on the Dobbs case leaked, Dawn Landes found herself unable to sleep. The 2022 decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe vs. Wade and its longstanding protections of the right of women

BONUS TRACKS: Drive-By Truckers Announce Tour Revisiting ‘Southern Rock Opera’

BONUS TRACKS: Drive-By Truckers Announce Tour Revisiting ‘Southern Rock Opera’

“It ain’t about the past,” the Drive-By Truckers proclaimed this week in announcing a tour to revisit their 2001 Southern Rock Opera double album. That’s because so many of those songs still speak to the state of the South — and “the duality of the Southern thing,” to borrow