In The Deep End With Lucinda Williams
It seems like Lucinda Williams needs music as much as the world needs her songs now… still. A beloved lyricist whose sound has too often been oversimplified as “too country for rock and too rock for country,” Williams is one of roots music’s patron saints of storytelling.
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FOUNDERS KEEPERS: New year, new tunes from the Salt Collective, Vince Gill, Lori Carson, Gwil Owen and More
In the early days of No Depression (that’s way back to the mid-late 1990s for you whippersnappers), we took the “whatever that is” part of our slogan pretty seriously. Which is to say, not seriously, in terms of deciding what did or didn’t belong under the ND umbrella.
ALBUM REVIEW: Emily Scott Robinson’s Soul-Stirring Stories on ‘Appalachia’
Emily Scott Robinson begins her latest record, Appalachia, with a hymn, a promise for the year ahead to be better than the last. With a melancholic echo of “Auld Lang Syne,” Robinson offers some hope for new beginnings even when it seems unthinkable. And though “Hymn for the Unholy” wasn’
THROUGH THE LENS: Florida’s 30A Songwriters Fest Kicks Off the 2026 Roots Music Festival Season
30A Songwriters Festival returned for its seventeenth installment over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend (January 16-19), demonstrating once again why it’s one of the nation’s premier multi-venue music festivals. With nearly 175 performers playing 30-odd spots along a 25-mile stretch of Florida’s Emerald Coast, there’s a
FRESH TRACK: Sammy Brue - "Lord, I'm Ready Now"
Songwriter Sammy Brue has announced the release of The Journals, a passion project and tribute to his mentor, Justin Townes Earle. The album includes never-before-recorded songs from Earle's journals entrusted by his widow, Jenn Marie Earle. Some of the songs on the album are based on lyric sheets,
ALBUM REVIEW: Della Mae Returns with Joyous, Soul-Affirming ‘Magic Accident’
Della Mae is back with joyous, soul-affirming music. Grammy award-winning banjoist Alison Brown produces and plays on Magic Accident, the band’s first album for Compass Records and their first since 2021’s Family Reunion. The songs on Magic Accident embraces the complexity of life while celebrating the glimmers of