ALBUM REVIEW: The Lowest Pair’s 'Always as Young as We’ll Ever Be' Pushes the Duo to New Musical Realms
The Lowest Pair’s Always as Young as We’ll Ever Be opens like a flower unfolding.
Gentle drones whisper behind banjo and acoustic guitar as “Give it All Away” starts. “By now I wonder how the seasons always seem to take us by surprise,” Kendl Winter and Palmer T.
ALBUM REVIEW: Sammy Brue honors, but does not imitate, Justin Townes Earle on 'The Journals'
In “Let’s Get Lost,” off his latest album The Journals, singer/songwriter Sammy Brue sings about a man who has never taken a chance. Over the languid swing of his unaccompanied guitar he describes the man’s gray, unenviable existence. In the song–and in life–Brue, a professional
ALBUM REVIEW: Stillness Is the Sweet Spot on The Paper Kites’ ‘If You Go There, I Hope You Find It’
The Paper Kites have been on the move for most of their 15 years as a band, whether on the road or up the charts with well-crafted, sweetly rendered indie folk songs that have found niches in TV show soundtracks and social media.
But for their seventh studio album, If
FRESH TRACK: Pi Jacobs - "Mrs. Nobody"
Imarhan's Top 5 Songs Right Now
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series, which kicked off last fall, features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the chance to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through the
THROUGH THE LENS: ND Photographer Astrida Valigorsky’s Adventure in Performance Photography
This week's column is a special one, it features the work of ND photographer Astrida Valigorsky. Her photos have been included in various columns – most notably in last year's coverage of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – but that has just been the tip of