ALBUM REVIEW: Old Crow Medicine Show Celebrates Its Own Traditions on ‘Jubilee’
Ketch Secor’s Old Crow Medicine Show started out as a hip retro stringband/bluegrass amalgam, playing traditional music with a reverent irreverence, and/or an irreverent reverence, depending on which side of the holler you were staring down. That was 25 years ago, though, and the band is now
THROUGH THE LENS: Dead & Company, Tyler Childers, and Other Photos of the Week
This week is a hybrid of sorts. Included are photos by 15 ND photographers from three festivals, Red Wings Roots Festival, The Peach Music Festival, and Wind Grass Bluegrass Festival, as well as from concerts by perennial favorites such as Tyler Childers, Jason Isbell, and boygenius. But let's
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: 3 New Projects as Summer Yields to Crowdfunding Season
As the end of summer, and the summer outdoor touring season, heads toward its end, bands begin turning their thoughts toward their next album. As a result, there's an uptick in crowdfunding campaigns this time of year. This week, I’m highlighting projects from two roots music veterans
ALBUM REVIEW: Love in Every Detail of Buck Meek’s Richly Painted ‘Haunted Mountain’
Buck Meek sees love in everything, it seems. On his latest solo outing, Haunted Mountain, it looks like things both eternal and ephemeral, surrounding him like a hypnotic haze. Jewelry, nature, vistas, drawings, clothing — all become more beautiful, it turns out, when you’re in love, and it’s through
JOURNAL EXCERPT: Guest Editor Dom Flemons Finds Balance Between the Past and the Present
EDITOR’S NOTE: To continue highlighting the Summer 2023 issue of No Depression, we're pleased to share this feature profile about Guest Editor Dom Flemons. As guest editor, Flemons — whose new album, Traveling Wildfire, came out via Smithsonian Folkways in March (ND review) — worked with us to conceptualize
BONUS TRACKS: The Mystery of Oliver Anthony
Music is a weird business. You can put out the best song in the world, hire the best people in the world to promote it, and it can still fizzle. Meanwhile, all sorts of terrible songs inexplicably catch fire and rocket to the top of the charts. Oliver Anthony, this