New 12-Hour Documentary Series Goes Deep Into Outlaw Country's Origins
AmericanaFest, which takes place Sept. 13-17, 2022, always features hundreds of incredible live music performances, not to mention countless parties, industry networking, and other opportunities to schmooze in Music City. This year it’ll also including a screening of part of They Called Us Outlaws — Cosmic Cowboys, Honky Tonk Heroes
THROUGH THE LENS: Change in the Air at 60th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival
If it’s late August, it means it’s time for one of the oldest folk festivals going, the Philadelphia Folk Festival. It has a special place in my heart as it was the first festival I ever attended. My most indelible memory is lying on my back looking up
JOURNAL EXCERPT: Fort Worth Nonprofit and Festival Celebrate Community and Aim to Decolonize Roots Music
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2022 journal, “Movers & Shakers.” You can read the whole story, and much more, in that issue — learn more about it here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music journalism, in
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Campaigns from Kevin Max, Richard X. Heyman, and More
Most weeks, this column has a theme. It isn't always meant to. It just happens that I look at the dozen or so albums I've got bookmarked for consideration and similarities come out. Not this week. So I'm taking a cue from Monty Python,
ALBUM REVIEW: Dan Navarro Drives Forward on ‘Horizon Line’
Some albums are beautiful little gems, every facet glimmering with dazzling light; the lyrics shine, and the music shimmers. Horizon Line, Dan Navarro’s first album since 2019’s Shed My Skin (ND review), is one of those albums. Navarro writes, sings, and plays with such emotional intensity that every
ALBUM REVIEW: Paisley Fields Explores Place on Campy, Confident ‘Limp Wrist’
There’s a moment we all must face when we realize that going away can help us find ourselves. For LGBTQ+ young people in rural areas, however, that choice is as painful as it is liberating: Why must you reject part of yourself to embrace the rest? That’s the