THE READING ROOM: Bob Dylan Reveals Little in Musings on ‘Modern Song’
This should be an easy review to write, right? Here beside me is Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song (Simon & Schuster), his long-awaited new book, and the first since the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
What is there to say here?
ALBUM REVIEW: First Aid Kit Leans Heavily Into Pop But Keeps Charisma on ‘Palomino’
With their latest album, Palomino, Johanna and Klara Söderberg, aka First Aid Kit, again share their irresistible voices and impeccable harmonies. Supporting musicians offer an array of percussion, strings, synths, and textural complements, the project unfurling as the duo’s most pop-adherent and lavishly rendered sequence to date.
Catchy opener
ALBUM REVIEW: Grief Gives Wings to Rayland Baxter's ‘If I Were a Butterfly’
Rayland Baxter was the only person who could harness the multitude of sonic pleasures on his latest, self-produced release If I Were a Butterfly. The predictably unpredictable Baxter holed up alone in an old rubber band factory in Kentucky for a year to work on Butterfly, studying the sights and
SPOTLIGHT: With ‘Radio John,’ Sam Bush Honors the Songs and Soul of John Hartford
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sam Bush is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for November 2022. Look for more about him and his new album, Radio John: Songs of John Hartford, all month long.
Growing up on a farm outside Bowling Green, Kentucky, Sam Bush and his family tuned into a Nashville-based
Remembering Gay Country Pioneer Patrick Haggerty
Pioneering country artist Patrick Haggerty, known for releasing the first gay country album in 1973, passed away Monday at home in Bremerton, Washington, from complications following a stroke. He was 78 years old.
Lavender Country was intended by Haggerty to be a viral message, long before the internet. Recorded in
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘There Is So Much Here,’ Glen Phillips Finds Magic in the Everyday
It’s been six years since Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips released a solo album. That was Swallowed by the New, a rumination on the loss he felt in the aftermath of his divorce. Since then, the world surrounding Phillips (and, really, all of us) has become increasingly