NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Dee's: Ghost Hounds
Bluesy country rock band Ghost Hounds joined us bright and early at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge in Madison, TN during AMERICANAFEST 2025 to share two songs from their current record Almost Home.
They went with a duo configuration for this No Depression Session, featuring frontman SAVNT and guitarist
BONUS TRACKS: Grammy and International Folk Music Award Nominees and More Roots Music News
The 68th annual Grammy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 1, 2026. Pop and hip-hop artists like Kendrick Lamar, Jack Antonoff, Lady Gaga, and Bad Bunny lead the nominations, but the nominees for all roots music (and adjacent) categories are listed below.
Best Country Solo Performance
“Nose On
No Depression’s Best of October 2025 Playlist
Despite the days getting shorter, October's playlist of the best roots music songs No Depression could find keeps getting longer. At nearly 50 songs again, the Best of October Playlist includes old roots favorites like Old 97's' Rhett Miller (ND feature), and The Autumn Defense
ALBUM REVIEW: Posthumous Collection 'The King is Back' Paints a Full, Deep Picture of The Late Luke Bell
“The air is hot, the crowd is stout / when the young man learns that luck’s his only friend.”
“Tiger’s Mouth,” the spaghetti westernized closing track from the newly-released posthumous Luke Bell collection The King is Back, presents a motorcycle daredevil on the lip of a dangerous stunt. Recorded
THE READING ROOM: The Dead’s Epic Wall of Sound in Minute, Exquisite Detail on Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’
Once upon a time, the Grateful Dead hung out in trees, dropping acid, and leading bands of Merry Pranksters dreamily along that golden road to eternal devotion. The darlings of psychedelic rock—or the pioneers of space bluegrass—the Dead opened their shows to the faithful: dancers with faraway eyes
ALBUM REVIEW: Tommy Talton Rides Again in ‘Seven Levels’
Guitarist and songwriter Tommy Talton died on December 28, 2023. Fortunately for us, he and his band had gathered at Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia, in April 2022 to lay down seven tracks that became his final recordings, now collected on Seven Levels. These songs feature Talton’s never-miss-a-note intimate