FreshGrass Festival Celebrates 10 Years in North Adams, Massachusetts
The annual FreshGrass Festival — produced by No Depression’s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation — celebrated a giant return to live music this past weekend. After pausing for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the three-day festival roared back with more than two dozen roots music performers across four stages.
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SPOTLIGHT: Charley Crockett Finds His Place on 'Are We Lonesome Yet' [VIDEO]
EDITOR'S NOTE: Charley Crockett is No Depression's Spotlight artist for September. Read our interview with him about his new album, Music City USA, and get another taste of his storytelling here. Below, he shares a performance of one of the songs from the album just for
Billy Strings Finds ‘Renewal’ Amid Months of Quarantine
At some point in quarantine, the rest of the music world caught up with a truth the bluegrass community already knew: Billy Strings is an unparalleled talent.
Following the late-2019 release of the Grammy award-winning Home, with planned spring (and subsequent) tours canceled, it appeared his rising star might be
On ‘Songwrights Apothecary Lab,’ Esperanza Spalding Probes the Power of Music
Now’s as good a time as any to ask the question “what do you need a song for?”: After a good 10 days or so this June, when American life looked like it might go back to normal, the country reverted to what’s become familiar over the last
THE READING ROOM: Determination and ‘A Little Faith’ Drive John Hiatt’s Life Story
John Hiatt has been working at the troubadour trade steadily for over 40 years — well, more if you count his boyhood bands — and he’s produced a catalog of gems that sparkle with wry insight, candor, and introspection. As it turns out, Hiatt set his sights very early on being
Christopher Paul Stelling Fills the Room With Just Voice and Guitar on ‘Forgiving It All’
Christopher Paul Stelling's Forgiving It All begins with Stelling's voice and finger-picked guitar, and the line, "When I was just a little child / It all seemed crystal clear / when I blindly trusted all of it / Before I learned to fear." It's a