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SPOTLIGHT: Dreams Fuel Lizzie No’s ‘Getaway Car’ [VIDEO]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lizzie No is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for January 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Halfsies, out Jan. 19 on Miss Freedomland Records / Thirty Tigers, in our interview, and look for more from No throughout the month.
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No Depression Sessions at AmericanaFest: Bahamas
The Nova Scotia-based artist Bahamas — government name Afie Jurvanen — laid three songs on us from his latest record, a country-adjacent gem called Bootcut, at this No Depression Session at AmericanaFest 2023 at Jaan’s House in Nashville.
Like many other musicians, Jurvanen spent a lot of 2020 figuring out how

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Several memorable music books were published in 2023, and I highlighted several in my previous column. We’re already looking forward to some more very promising books in 2024, but first I wanted to offer a look at a few 2023 music books that stand out for their contributions to

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As the title of his Alligator debut, The Hard Line, implies, vocalist/harpist Chris O’Leary's life and career have followed a hard line, but not a straight one. Blasting through a dozen blistering originals, O'Leary chronicles the meandering journey that led him in and out