ALBUM REVIEW: Rockabilly Patriarch Carl Perkins Shines Bright on ‘Some Things Never Change’
In its mid-‘50s heyday, Sun Records launched the careers of some high-wattage talents, among them Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison. Though not the first name that comes to mind when you think of the revolutionary Memphis label, Carl Perkins got his start there, too.
ALBUM REVIEW: Jonny Fritz Is Still Goofing — And Still Getting to the Point on ‘Debbie Downers’
Jonny Fritz long ago established himself as a kind of reliable clown of country music, recording genuinely great songs that always toed the line of absurdity. A master of people-watching and zooming in on the funniest details of the mundane—the gravity of trash pick-up day, the characters that frequent
A Postcard from Jillian Jacqueline
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 Nashville singer-songwriter Jillian Jacqueline, whose new album MotherDaughterSisterWife was released on October 17, 2025.
Just a couple hours before
FOUNDERS KEEPERS: Re-Release of Tony Joe White’s ‘The Real Thang’ Certainly Is
It is possible, with very little effort, to stream live video of Elvis Presley singing “Polk Salad Annie,” back during his final credibility scare, and then of the songwriter, Tony Joe White, singing it on network T.V. with the host of “The Johnny Cash Show” (oh yeah, that'
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘All Hat’, Joshua Hedley More Than Plays the Part
All hat, no cattle is a term that is often synonymous with “poser” or “imitator,” used to call out those unable to fill certain boots.
With the recent rise of Western wear producing a fleet of concrete cowpokes, and as more cross-genre stars try on country music for size, the
ALBUM REVIEW: Dion, ‘The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher,’ Sums It All Up
It’s remarkable, really: Dion DiMucci is not only the last of the pioneering rock-and-roll greats of the 1950s, but, at 86, he remains creatively vital. In recent years he has been turning out some of the best music of his seven-decade-plus career, and he’s doing so with an