SPOTLIGHT: Lizzie No Takes Hold of Possibility in Music and Beyond
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lizzie No is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for January 2024. Her new album, Halfies, will be released Jan. 19 via Thirty Tigers. Look for more about No and Halfsies all month long.
The photos are glossy, black and white, early 1960s. A little girl of about
The Avett Brothers' Songs Get Theatrical Treatment in 'Swept Away'
John Gallagher Jr. lays prostrate on stage. He’s wearing a dirtied face mask over a scraggly beard he’s been growing out since August and is on a makeshift hospital bed beneath the cover of tattered blankets. Gallagher has been hiding in plain sight for half an hour before
THROUGH THE LENS: Mountain Stage at 40 - From a Small Acorn a Mighty Oak Grows
Like a small planted acorn, Mountain Stage presented its initial show in December 1983, showcasing West Virginia musicians to a small but enthusiastic audience for broadcast on West Virginia Public Radio. But word soon got around more widely that the show was extremely hospitable to a certain kind of music
Charley Crockett and Willie Nelson Team Up for New Song
The new year is off to a fine start already for fans of real country music.
At midnight on the first day of 2024, Charley Crockett and Willie Nelson released a duet titled “That’s What Makes the World Go Around,” a loping country weeper about a “young woman through
FOUNDERS’ KEEPERS: The Missing Years
These days, alas, there is no danger of wobbling late Friday night 10 blocks over to Peaches Records and looking for love in the cut-out bins. (Oh, but that Legendary Christine Perfect album.) The habit never entirely leaves, even as it becomes more difficult to justify what sneaks through
CRITICS POLL: No Depression Writers’ Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2023
Most years, our annual Readers Poll and Critics Poll don’t have a lot of overlap. Music writers, who listen to a lot of music with a lot of intensity, are hungry for novelty and tend to gravitate toward artists a little farther off the beaten path. Fans, however, stay