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NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Chelsea Studios NYC: Courtney Marie Andrews
Courtney Marie Andrews joined us at Chelsea Studios NYC to share three songs from her new album Valentine (ND's album review here), along with album co-producer and guitarist Jerry Bernhardt. Her recent trip to NYC was packed with a variety of artistic expressions, including the unveiling of the
THE READING ROOM: Alice Gerrard's 'Custom Made Woman'
Reading Alice Gerrard’s inviting and candid Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music (North Carolina, December 2, 2025) is much like sitting down with her in her front room or on her porch and listening to her regale us with tales of her relationships ( the musicians she’s
BEST OF THE BLUES: January 2026
EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to No Depression’s newest column — Best of the Blues. Each month we’ve asked long-time No Depression contributor, Grant Britt, to round up some of his favorite new blues records for your listening pleasure.
Anybody who thinks that the blues is a dying art doesn&
In The Deep End With Lucinda Williams
It seems like Lucinda Williams needs music as much as the world needs her songs now… still. A beloved lyricist whose sound has too often been oversimplified as “too country for rock and too rock for country,” Williams is one of roots music’s patron saints of storytelling.
Now in
FOUNDERS KEEPERS: New year, new tunes from the Salt Collective, Vince Gill, Lori Carson, Gwil Owen and More
In the early days of No Depression (that’s way back to the mid-late 1990s for you whippersnappers), we took the “whatever that is” part of our slogan pretty seriously. Which is to say, not seriously, in terms of deciding what did or didn’t belong under the ND umbrella.
ALBUM REVIEW: Emily Scott Robinson’s Soul-Stirring Stories on ‘Appalachia’
Emily Scott Robinson begins her latest record, Appalachia, with a hymn, a promise for the year ahead to be better than the last. With a melancholic echo of “Auld Lang Syne,” Robinson offers some hope for new beginnings even when it seems unthinkable. And though “Hymn for the Unholy” wasn’