SPOTLIGHT: Cat Clyde's Grounding Rituals on the Road [ESSAY]
Editor's Note: Cat Clyde, whose new LP Mud Blood Bone came out March 13 via Concord, is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for March 2026. Read her feature profile here and watch an exclusive, acoustic video of one of her new songs here.
As someone who is
ALBUM REVIEW: Big Harp Lives with ‘Runs to Blue’
Think of all the life that can be lived in just a year. Now multiply it by 15, add a marriage, a couple kids, the loss of beloved family members countless cups of coffee, gigs played, songs written and tossed away and then revived. This is where the couple behind
The Hard Balance of Real Life Renders Jon Dee Graham’s Body of Work All The More Impressive
Editor's Note: Austin singer-songwriter Jon Dee Graham passed away on Friday, March 27 at age 67 after a fall. No Depression co-founder Grant Alden wrote this feature for issue #63, May-June 2006, of the original magazine and we're sharing it now in Graham&
BONUS TRACKS: Tom Waits Tribute, RIP Ronnie Bowman, and More Roots Music News
There's a new tribute record to Tom Waits in the works titled Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow. The album is credited to Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, with performances by Bruce Springsteen,
Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams, and more, and due out May
ALBUM REVIEW: Flatland Calvary Display Breadth of Signature Style on ‘Work of Heart’
Flatland Calvary continues anchoring their work in roots music with their new album, Work of Heart. Even when production goes big, bold, and shiny, the sextet ground themselves with simple, yet evocative, arrangements that tell the whole history of their musical lives. 12 songs live and breathe with the throbbing
ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Hedges Sings Cowboy Songs for Now on ‘The Westerner’
Cowboys and their escapades and tall tales have been staples of American pop culture for generations. But few living cowboy songsters do a better job capturing those legends alongside heart-felt stories of the working cowboys and their traditions and culture than Andy Hedges. With his latest album, The Westerner,