ALBUM REVIEW: Rodney Crowell Takes Flight Down the ‘Airline Highway’
Cha Wa Shares the Stories and Sounds of New Orleans With the World
EDITOR'S NOTE: This feature originally appeared in the Summer 2021 "Voice" issue of No Depression and we're resharing it in honor of New Orleans funk and traditional collective Cha Wa's new LP Rise Up, which is due out August 29 — the 20th
THE READING ROOM: Tamara Savino's 'Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music'
Grammy-winning producer and author Tamara Saviano has a knack for telling stories. She slowly creates a world into which she draws her readers; upon entering, readers find many rooms filled with entrancing conversations about the enduring power of music and its continual evolution. Although Saviano follows the founding and development
ALBUM REVIEW: Ron Sexsmith Gently Bares His Soul on ‘Hangover Terrace’
“I can do whatever I damn well please,” proclaims Ron Sexsmith calmly on his latest standout album, voicing steely defiance with typical restraint. Regardless of his sentiments, which can range from placid to fraught, he wraps them in such lovely melodies that it’s easy to mistake these thoughtful songs
ALBUM REVIEW: Anna Tivel Explores Her Final Frontier on 'Animal Poem'
Anna Tivel is a consummate storyteller whose keen eye and compassionate heart have dazzled us with stories of floating balloons; an elderly queer couple whose momentoes of their quiet defiance are destroyed in a house fire; a troubled young man who is mistaken as a suspect in a mass shooting;
ALBUM REVIEW: Five Decades In and Counting, Asleep at The Wheel is Still 'Riding High in Texas'
Western swing legends Asleep at The Wheel have been a band for 55 years, and a Texas band for 50 of those. Impossible to confuse with the hottest new thing, Asleep at The Wheel’s secret has always been in being the most fun on the block. And to celebrate