ALBUM REVIEW: Compassion Is the Compass for Tim Easton’s ‘Find Your Way’
“Think of everyone you hurt, starting with yourself,” sings Tim Easton on his latest album, Find Your Way, his voice expertly seasoned by the nearly three decades of his journeyman career. He repeats the refrain like a call and response: “Everyone you lied to, starting with yourself / Every broken promise,
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SPOTLIGHT: Kaia Kater Sizes Up What Matters in ‘Maker Taker’ [VIDEO]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaia Kater is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May. Learn more about her and her new album, Strange Medicine (out May 17 on Free Dirt Records), in our interview, and look for more all month long.
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No Depression Sessions at Folk Alliance International 2024: AJ Lee & Blue Summit
California bluegrass band AJ Lee & Blue Summit stopped by the AEA Ribbon Mics suite at Folk Alliance International 2024 in Kansas City for a positively devastating No Depression Session featuring two songs from their forthcoming album, City of Glass, along with Lee’s solo performance of “Someone Please.”
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ALBUM REVIEW: Ani DiFranco Shakes Up the Script on ‘Unprecedented Sh!t’
When was the last time Ani DiFranco got weird with her music?
After the free-flowing eclecticism of her 2003 record Evolve, DiFranco settled into a comfortable, acoustic-folk groove. With the release of Unprecedented Sh!t, her 23rd album, she shakes things up again and presents 11 tracks that are marked
ALBUM REVIEW: Blues Flavors the Brew on Little Feat’s First Studio Album in 12 Years
The feet are the same, but there's a new voice above them. For Sam’s Place, Little Feat’s first studio album in 12 years, they bring conga player Sam Clayton to the mic for the whole session. Clayton has been in the background for most of Feat&
‘The Human Condition’: Becky Buller Brings Real Talk About Depression Into Bluegrass
There’s no shortage of sadness in bluegrass. It’s right there in the mournful fiddles, in the broken-hearted lyrics; it’s baked into the high lonesome sound itself.
But often the cause of that constant sorrow is external: Usually, someone left or someone died. Sadness as a mental state,