ALBUM REVIEW: Molly Tuttle Brings the Joy of Bluegrass to ‘Crooked Tree’
Molly Tuttle has bluegrass in her blood. Thanks to her father and grandfather, she grew up listening to the genre and attending bluegrass festivals. Tuttle always had the desire to make a full-length bluegrass record, and after two largely folk-rock releases — her 2019 debut When You’re Ready and her
ALBUM REVIEW: Paul Cauthen Brings Wit and Wide Range to ‘Country Coming Down’
Paul Cauthen offers a sequence of catchy, humorous, and heartfelt songs on his latest album, Country Coming Down. Overall, the sound is unmistakably country, though Cauthen and his band draw from and recontextualize a variety of playbooks. While previous projects, including the raconteurial Room 41 and sermonic Have Mercy, revealed
Western Centuries, Donna the Buffalo Founding Member Jim Miller Dies on Tour
Jim Miller, part of the roots music trio Western Centuries and a founding member of Donna the Buffalo, died last week from cardiac arrest while on tour in Boston.
“We’re all absolutely heartbroken and speechless right now,” Western Centuries posted on its social media channels Friday. “Jim was family,
Are Cassettes Making a Comeback? Why Yola, Lilly Hiatt, and Others Are Feeling the Format
Perhaps improbably in this technological age, cassettes are back, re-emerging from the 1980s and ’90s as a format some artists are using — alongside others — for new releases and reissues.
For some, the idea comes from record labels, who broach the idea as a way to offer something physical at a
JOURNAL EXCERPT: 50 Years of Karen Dalton’s 'In My Own Time'
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2021 journal, “Voices” that No Depression is republishing in honor of today's 180-gram vinyl reissue of this underground classic record from Light in the Attic. You can read the whole story — and much more — in
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Humble Quest,’ Maren Morris Finds Meaning in the Search
Though one could assume with an album title like Humble Quest that Maren Morris has reached some end of a mythic journey, her third album doesn’t burden itself with having all the answers. It is made up of the work Morris has done, and continues to do, to carve