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No Depression’s Best of May 2026 Playlist
May was one of the most intense months for new music that we've seen quite literally in years. Usually, No Depression clocks between 40-50 releases that fall under the wide umbrella of roots music. May 2026, however, saw 70! We did our best to cover as many
BONUS TRACKS: Changes at Folk Alley and IBMA, New Music from Keb' Mo' and Wyatt Flores, and More Roots Music News
For the last seven years or so, No Depression has been honored to share a metaphorical roof with Folk Alley. In 2019, the FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression's nonprofit publisher), brought Folk Alley into the fold, helping keep the 24-hour streaming radio service playing when its previous radio
NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Wild Coyote: Cat Clyde
Canadian songwriter Cat Clyde shared two songs from her fourth full-length album Mud Blood Bone with us on her "day off" between shows at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn, and Club Passim in Cambridge.
Between songs, Clyde discussed the album's creation, including her
ALBUM REVIEW: Charlie Marie Finds Herself in the Great Unknown on ‘Signs’
A voice like Charlie Marie’s doesn’t come along too often, but when people were floored by it in 2021 upon release of her phenomenal, hard-won debut Ramble On, she wasn’t prepared for the reverberations. As her golden-throated country songs were finally catching on, her personal
Deer Tick'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. This installment comes from
THE READING ROOM: ‘Color Me Country: A Celebration of Black Women Who Shaped Country Music’
In 1970, Linda Martell, the first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry, released her album Color Me Country. “Color Him Father,” the first single from the album, hit number twenty-two on the Billboard country charts. Over fifty years later, Beyoncé was the first Black person to win