ALBUM REVIEW: Half Gringa Seeks Her Full Self on ‘Ancestral Home’ EP
“It’s who you become in the end,” Isabel Olive sings on “Miranda,” from Ancestral Home, her latest collection of songs under the moniker Half Gringa. Across five tracks, Olive is a seeker of selfhood, carving identity from passed-down stories, truths and lore from the past, and, of course, ancestors.
ALBUM REVIEW: Irene Kelley’s ‘Snow White Memories’ Adds Warmth to Winter
Irene Kelley’s crystalline vocals warmly envelop listeners on her new album, Snow White Memories, wrapping them in a soothing blanket of sound. The eminent bluegrass singer and songwriter delivers these 11 songs with a piercing intimacy that reverberates in the heart, coursing over the emotional landscape of loneliness, loss,
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Fragments’ Bears Witness to Bob Dylan’s Late-'90s Resurgence
Bob Dylan closed the 1980s with the Daniel Lanois-produced Oh Mercy, an acclaimed return-to-form after more than a decade of bad reviews and being “written off,” as his concert introductions voiced by stage manager Al Santos dryly made clear, “as a has-been by the end of the ’80s.” Oh Mercy
Nickel Creek Returns With ‘Celebrants,’ Trio’s First Album in Nine Years
Nickel Creek fans know by now that the band’s fire never dies, it just tends to smolder for a while.
After a nine-year break from recording together, the trio of Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins is back with a new album, Celebrants, coming March 24 via Thirty
THROUGH THE LENS: Why Vinyl? The Roots Music Lover’s Guide to Analog, Part 4
I thought that last year’s column about vinyl collecting would be my last in an occasional series of them, but a lot has happened during the past year that warrants the attention of all roots music fans who are also into vinyl. Specifically: 1) The announced construction of three
SPOTLIGHT: Pony Bradshaw's Appalachian Metaphor
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pony Bradshaw is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for January 2023. Read more about him and his new album, North Georgia Rounder, out Jan. 27, in this interview.
I was born on the Mississippi coast. We lived in Pass Christian a spell. Close to Gulfport and Biloxi.