ALBUM REVIEW: Buck Owens Posthumous Live 3-CD Set is Trove of Owens’ Highs and Lows
The 3-CD set 'Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974' provides a glimpse into the popularity of Buck Owens and His Buckaroos during these years, and it offers an overview of the band’s evolution.
ALBUM REVIEW: Willi Carlisle’s Ardently Queer, Class-Conscious Take on Country-Folk Traditionalism Gets Wilder and Friskier on 'Winged Victory'
“I wanted my version to sound like a drag queen in a horny vaudeville act. I think we nailed it.”
That’s what Willi Carlisle writes about his cover of “Crying These Cocksucking Tears,” a tune by Patrick Haggerty of Lavender Country (the band that made the first widely-released “gay
NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at MerleFest: The Fretliners
No Depression set up the "studio" at the 37th annual MerleFest for a dozen sessions with legends and legends-in-the-making. The festival was founded in 1988 in memory of Doc Watson’s son Merle, and features “traditional plus” music, meaning a broad range of styles from the sweet falsetto
THROUGH THE LENS: Nelsonville Music Festival 2025 Digs Roots Music in Southeast Ohio
A Postcard from Vandoliers
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s “Postcard From” series features dispatches from artists' daily lives on the road, in the studio, or anywhere in between. Our next installment comes from Vandoliers' Jenni Rose, whose new album Life Behind Bars is out June 27, 2025.
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ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘In the West,’ The Horsenecks Make the Old New Again
With In the West, Gabrielle Macrae and Barry Southern, a.k.a. The Horsenecks, release another set of moving songs with dynamic instrumentals. As with previous albums, including their 2015 self-titled debut, the duo mine country, folk, and bluegrass playbooks, continuing to hone a brand of revamped traditionalism.
The project