Country Music Queen Loretta Lynn Dead at Age 90
It hurts like a slap in the face with a coal shovel. Loretta Lynn has left us.
She died in her sleep Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, at age 90, according to a statement from her family.
The coal-dusted queen of country leaves behind a rent
Ana Egge on Lessons in Poland From a Past That Haunts the Present
In the summer of 2020, I applied for The Common Good Masterclass for Artists hosted by Western States Center in Portland, Oregon. As a singer-songwriter with little experience with this sort of thing, I thought it was a long shot that I would be accepted, so I was very
THROUGH THE LENS: Bluegrass Rules Inside or Out at IBMA's Big Event
This week bluegrass takes over the column, just days after the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual takeover of Raleigh, North Carolina, with its World of Bluegrass festival. The fest demonstrated two things to me: 1) bluegrass just keeps becoming more vibrant every day; and 2) a shining new talent
ALBUM REVIEW: A Complex Journey from Hallelujah to Joyful Noise on Tyler Childers’ ‘Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?’
Tyler Childers is rapidly developing into an artist that seeks to surprise and challenge listeners.
His last album, the unexpected 2020 release Long Violent History, was protest-music-by-fiddle, an unexpected dive into the history of rural racism and missive on the side of racial equity. Childers’ new LP
Adam Baldwin – 'Lighthouse in Little Lorraine'
"Lighthouse in Little Lorraine" is from the new album Concertos & Serenades by Adam Baldwin. CKUA recently called the album “a strikingly stark and devastatingly dark brand of East Coast raconteurship." The music video was directed by Andy Hines.
SPOTLIGHT: How Caleb Caudle Found a New Spark With ‘Forsythia’
EDITOR’S NOTE: Caleb Caudle is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for October 2022. Look for more about him and his new album, Forsythia, all month long.
A sliver of the clearest, brightest blue sky peeks out from behind the shade of a front porch overhang where Caleb Caudle is