SPOTLIGHT: Wild Ponies on Finding Luck, Love, and a Creative Community
EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild Ponies are No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Dreamers, coming Aug. 23 on No Evil Records, in our interview. And watch them perform “Breathe” from the album just for ND readers in this video.
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ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Woodland,’ Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Pick Up Where They Left Off
Personal and professional partners Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have been performing minimal, slowed down, dreamy lonesome country folk for some three decades now. The main thing that’s changed since Welch’s string of classic albums — Revival (1995) through The Harrow and the Harvest (2011) — is that the duo
ALBUM REVIEW: India Ramey Pairs Power With Vulnerability on ‘Baptized by the Blaze’
On her new album Baptized by the Blaze, India Ramey is here to kick ass, play honky-tonk, and chew bubblegum — and she’s all out of gum. She’s also out of Klonopin; this album details Ramey’s life-affirming experience of working through childhood trauma to end her
THROUGH THE LENS: Music Made Amid Nature at Pickin’ in the Backwoods and Clifftop
This week’s column is dedicated to pickin’ in the backwoods, featuring two roots fests that are held in picturesque rural areas of their respective home states of Indiana and West Virginia.
The inaugural Pickin’ in the Backwoods Music Festival was held Aug. 16-17 in Nashville, Indiana, near Brown
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Homemade Perks Add Heart to Campaigns
As creatives, it's no surprise that musicians are often multi-talented, masters not only of their particular instruments or voices but also of other art forms, like painting or jewelry making. This can be a real boon for crowdfunders, as these products are the kind of highly personalized
FRESH TRACK: Bill Taylor – 'Roll Me Away'
Eastern Kentuckian Bill Taylor re-imagines the Bob Seger classic rock hit from 1983, “Roll Me Away,” on the new multi-artist album Silver Bullet Bluegrass produced by Randall Deaton for Lonesome Day Records. His hearty, chesty baritone is one of the collection’s standout tracks, an exhilarating ride on