
FRESH TRACK: Barbaro – 'One x One'
“One x One” is from About the Winter, a new album by the rising Minneapolis-based roots group Barbaro. The song exemplifies the album’s expansive, atmospheric take on roots music: From a cavernous and minimalistic soundscape, fiddler Rachel Calvert’s ringing voice emerges with a deliberate performance of vulnerability and

FOUNDERS’ KEEPERS: The Judds Tribute, Jon Dee Graham, and More
Perhaps we should reconsider last column's comment about the manufactured consent of celebrity and commerce so as to add a needed caveat, borrowed from a children's book by Lloyd Alexander: The work doesn't care who does it. And the best work, the work which

No Depression Sessions at AmericanaFest: Afton Wolfe
Afton Wolfe offered two songs from his upcoming album The Harvest, and a third from Twenty-Three, an EP released last February, during our No Depression Sessions at AmericanaFest 2023, shot at Jaan’s House in Nashville.
This No Depression Session, and the studio recordings found on The Harvest, display the

BONUS TRACKS: FreshGrass | Bentonville Lineup, A ‘New’ Beatles Song, and More
As festival season starts to snooze for the winter, music fans can start dreaming of spring lineups, and we’ve got a good one for you: FreshGrass | Bentonville, presented by No Depression publisher the FreshGrass Foundation, announced its lineup this week, headlined by Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit and

SPOTLIGHT: Tré Burt on Uncommon Sense
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tré Burt is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for October 2023. Learn more about him and his new album, Traffic Fiction, in this interview, and check out an acoustic performance of the title track just for ND readers in this video.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Jessi Colter Hops Genres on ‘Edge of Forever’
Jessi Colter has always stood on the edge. She and her late husband Waylon Jennings, along with Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser, carried country music in new directions in 1976 with the album Wanted! The Outlaws, the first country album to hit platinum status. Colter brought her own outlaw stylings