NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion: Florencia & The Feeling
This year's Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion drew us even deeper into the rich history of recorded music in the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee-Virginia. It's coming up on a century since Ralph Peer's 1927 Bristol Sessions introduced Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to
ALBUM REVIEW: Roomful of Blues is Still 'Steppin' Out' Swinging after Nearly Six Decades
Roomful of Blues have never had any problem living up to their name. Their brassy bombast has packed rooms full of sweaty big band celebrants from coast to coast and round the world for nearly six decades. But for their latest, Steppin' Out, the band has floated a new
Rhett Miller’s Top 5 Songs Right Now
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the chance to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through the days. The first installment comes
ALBUM REVIEW: A ‘Hallejujah!’ Moment for Soul-Blues Warhorse Robert Finley
Robert Finley titled his first album Age Don’t Mean a Thing. The singer and guitarist was obviously aiming to make a point, since that 2016 debut came when he was 62 years old. And what a debut it was, introducing a soul-blues man whose music burst with a raw
ALBUM REVIEW: Honoring Cindy Walker with ‘It’s All Her Fault’ Tribute Album Grey DeLisle and Friends Lift up One of Country’s Greatest Songwriters
Prolific country songwriter Cindy Walker certainly deserves to be celebrated. In 1970 she became a charter member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1977 Walker was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. From the 1940s through the 1980s, Walker penned hits for artists ranging from
ALBUM REVIEW: Traveling through 'Here and Nowhere' with the Autumn Defense
When this side-project first surfaced around the time of Wilco’s game-changing Yankee Hotel Foxtrot a quarter-century ago, I recall some folks looking at me sideways when I told them that I liked the Autumn Defense’s new album more. It probably sounded like a contrarian pose, but I was