FRESH TRACK: Son Little - “Be Better”
Curiosity about his ancestry has led songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Son Little on a journey throughout the American South that has resulted in his new album, simply titled CITYFOLK. The West Coast-born, Northeast-bred musician fine-tunes his craft here and speaks for those enduring tribulations about finding their
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SPOTLIGHT: Cat Clyde's Grounding Rituals on the Road [ESSAY]
Editor's Note: Cat Clyde, whose new LP Mud Blood Bone came out March 13 via Concord, is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for March 2026. Read her feature profile here and watch an exclusive, acoustic video of one of her new songs here.
As someone who is
ALBUM REVIEW: Big Harp Lives with ‘Runs to Blue’
Think of all the life that can be lived in just a year. Now multiply it by 15, add a marriage, a couple kids, the loss of beloved family members countless cups of coffee, gigs played, songs written and tossed away and then revived. This is where the couple behind
The Hard Balance of Real Life Renders Jon Dee Graham’s Body of Work All The More Impressive
Editor's Note: Austin singer-songwriter Jon Dee Graham passed away on Friday, March 27 at age 67 after a fall. No Depression co-founder Grant Alden wrote this feature for issue #63, May-June 2006, of the original magazine and we're sharing it now in Graham&
BONUS TRACKS: Tom Waits Tribute, RIP Ronnie Bowman, and More Roots Music News
There's a new tribute record to Tom Waits in the works titled Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow. The album is credited to Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, with performances by Bruce Springsteen,
Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams, and more, and due out May
ALBUM REVIEW: Flatland Calvary Display Breadth of Signature Style on ‘Work of Heart’
Flatland Calvary continues anchoring their work in roots music with their new album, Work of Heart. Even when production goes big, bold, and shiny, the sextet ground themselves with simple, yet evocative, arrangements that tell the whole history of their musical lives. 12 songs live and breathe with the throbbing