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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

SPOTLIGHT: Good Deeds Get Answered on Joe Pug’s ‘No Place a Good Man Can Hide’ [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Good Deeds Get Answered on Joe Pug’s ‘No Place a Good Man Can Hide’ [VIDEO]

EDITOR'S NOTE: Joe Pug is No Depression's Spotlight artist for March 2024. Learn more about him and his new album, Sketch of a Promised Departure, in our interview, and look for more from Pug all month long. There’s a lot of good on Joe Pug’

BONUS TRACKS: Remembering Malcolm Holcombe

BONUS TRACKS: Remembering Malcolm Holcombe

Malcolm Holcombe, a songwriting hero to many songwriters, died this week at 68. According to a social media post from his wife, he died from respiratory failure, though he’d suffered from ill health, including cancer, for a long time. While remembrances are pouring in from musicians who called him

ALBUM REVIEW: Kelly Willis, Melissa Carper, and Brennen Leigh Combine Powers to Become the Wonder Women of Country

ALBUM REVIEW: Kelly Willis, Melissa Carper, and Brennen Leigh Combine Powers to Become the Wonder Women of Country

Country music has a long tradition of women banding together: Trio, Pistol Annies, Our Native Daughters, and The Highwomen come to mind. A new sisterhood now carries that same spirit, combining the musical superpowers of Kelly Willis, Melissa Carper, and Brennen Leigh into the Wonder Women of Country. Singer-songwriters Willis,

BONUS TRACKS: Rhiannon Giddens’ Essay Brings Black Country History to the Mainstream

BONUS TRACKS: Rhiannon Giddens’ Essay Brings Black Country History to the Mainstream

Whether a Black pop star is “allowed” to make country music is a subject of fierce debate in some corners of the internet lately, and probably in some dark, ugly places in real life, too. But the fact is Black people have been making country music since the genre’s

The Avett Brothers Announce Self-Titled New Album

The Avett Brothers Announce Self-Titled New Album

Often when an album bears the name of the artist as its title, it’s a statement that the work fully represents its creator. It tends to happen on an artist’s debut project, or sometimes an album or two in, when they feel they really have their feet under

SPOTLIGHT: Madi Diaz on Holding On to ‘Weird Faith’ [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Madi Diaz on Holding On to ‘Weird Faith’ [VIDEO]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Madi Diaz is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2024. Her new album, Weird Faith, is out now on ANTI-. Read more about Diaz and the new album in our interview, and read an essay by Diaz on mining the soul for songs here. “Weird faith,