HELLO STRANGER: A Walk Through No Depression’s Summer 2023 Journal + Playlist
EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our current quarterly journal, featuring the best and most timely stories in roots music today. Buy the Summer 2023 issue in print or digitally here. Better yet, start a subscription with this issue and help support No Depression’s music
BONUS TRACKS: A Fund to Help Jesse Malin, An AI-Assisted Beatles Song, and More
Jesse Malin, in addition to the good work of electrifying his audiences, has always been known for helping his fellow musicians in need as well as the New York City music scene he’s part of. Now, sadly, he’s hit an incredibly hard time himself as he recovers from
No Depression Sessions at DelFest: Sam Bush
Sam Bush’s No Depression Session at DelFest 2023 features Stephen Mougin on guitar and background vocals and starts off appropriately with the music of Bush’s hero and mentor, John Hartford.
“I’m Still Here” was first released on Hartford’s 1968 album, Housing Project, featuring a soaring trumpet
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘King of a Land,’ Yusuf/Cat Stevens Reigns Familiar Territory
Perhaps there is some small comfort in knowing that musicians whose voices haunted your youth and whose songs drove your idealism are still making music that sounds like the music they made 50 years ago. Cat Stevens (now Yusuf/Cat Stevens) became — and remains — the soundtrack for many idealistic young,
ALBUM REVIEW: Bonny Doon Makes Room for Unabashed Joy
There can be plenty of skepticism around joy, like it’s too pure, too earnest a feeling to be real. But when you give yourself over to it, as Detroit trio Bonny Doon seem to on their new album, the reward is worth it. Let There Be Music is the
ALBUM REVIEW: Bettye LaVette Shines Brightly and Boldly on ‘LaVette!’
It’s now been nearly two decades since Bettye LaVette’s debut, I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise, on the indie behemoth ANTI- Records, which revitalized the R&B singer’s mostly thwarted recording career and sent her on a late-career hot streak that continues mostly unabated