ALBUM REVIEW: Brittney Spencer Sings Straight From the Heart on Debut LP ‘My Stupid Life’
Although My Stupid Life is Brittney Spencer’s debut album, she’s already established herself as a straight-from-the-heart songwriter who is unafraid to share her vulnerability and claim her strengths. In 2022, the Baltimore native released the EP if I ever get there: a day at blackbird
FAI Announces Honorees and 2023 Nominees for International Folk Music Awards
As Folk Alliance International gears up for its annual conference next month, it has announced the nominees for its International Folk Music Awards in the album, artist, and song categories, as well as several special achievement award winners.
The awards with nominees honor work released in 2023, and winners will
No Depression and Music Maker Foundation to Release 'Song Keepers' Book and Compilation
If the Music Maker Foundation sounds familiar, it should. The North Carolina-based nonprofit organization — which, according to its mission, "meets the day-to-day needs of the artists who create traditional American music, ensures their voices are heard, and gives all people access to our nation’s hidden
FRESH TRACK: The High Hawks – 'Somewhere South'
The High Hawks are a group of musical friends who hail from various jam and Americana bands: Vince Herman, frontman and festival ring leader from Leftover Salmon; Tim Carbone, ace fiddler and multi-instrumentalist from Railroad Earth; Adam Greuel, singer and guitarist from Horseshoes & Hand Grenades; Chad Staehly, keyboardist
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SPOTLIGHT: Dreams Fuel Lizzie No’s ‘Getaway Car’ [VIDEO]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lizzie No is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for January 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Halfsies, out Jan. 19 on Miss Freedomland Records / Thirty Tigers, in our interview, and look for more from No throughout the month.
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No Depression Sessions at AMERICANAFEST 2023: Bahamas
The Nova Scotia-based artist Bahamas — government name Afie Jurvanen — laid three songs on us from his latest record, a country-adjacent gem called Bootcut, at this No Depression Session at AmericanaFest 2023 at Jaan’s House in Nashville.
Like many other musicians, Jurvanen spent a lot of 2020 figuring