THE READING ROOM: Mavis Staples Bridges All Ages, All Audiences With Children’s Book
Inspiring soul and gospel singer, civil rights activist, Bob Dylan’s crush: Mavis Staples can now add children’s book author to her resume. Partnering with award-winning children’s book author Carolyn Boston Weatherford (Unspeakable; Moses) and illustrator Steffi Walthall (Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round), Staples tells
No Depression's Best of July 2024 Playlist
Live records can be hit-or-miss. Luckily for roots music fans, July 2024 brought us not one, but two outstanding releases capturing live music on tape. Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings kicks off the month's playlist with his light-speed flat-picking guitar work from Live Vol. 1 (implying that there are
ALBUM REVIEW: Los Lonely Boys Stage a Solid Comeback With ‘Resurrection’
Los Lonely Boys merge their Texas rock sound with meaningful messages on their new album, Resurrection.
You likely know the band for their hit debut single “Heaven,” which elevated them from the Texas rock n’ roll landscape into the mainstream 2004. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Adult
ALBUM REVIEW: 49 Winchester Are ‘Leavin’ This Holler’ Without Forsaking Their Roots
It’s been said that there’s no place like home. It nurtures and teaches us, often informing our direction in life. Sometimes, though, we have to leave to really understand not only the gravity of home, but who we are without it.
Perhaps 49 Winchester’s Isaac Gibson sings
Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin Join Forces for Social Justice-Centered Album ‘symbiont’
symbiont, the new collaborative album from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, isn’t going to sound like anything you’ve heard before.
The album, coming Sept. 27 on Smithsonian Folkways, contends with the past, present, and future through the lens of racial and climate justice, tapping into ancient forms of
ALBUM REVIEW: Joe Ely Offers a Thrilling Ride on ‘Driven to Drive’
“I’m a rovin’ soul,” Joe Ely confesses on the haunted opening to “Drivin’ Man,” the number that opens and sets the thematic tone for his sparkling new album, Driven to Drive.
Since bursting out of Texas in the ‘70s like a Lone Star Springsteen, his rocking dynamism colored by