Ana Egge – 'We Lay Roses'
I wrote "We Lay Roses” as I worked through my early grief at the loss of my nephew in 2020. As a tribute to him and also as a comfort to all of us who have lost someone too soon. He was such a kind and loving and troubled
SPOTLIGHT: Truth, Fiction, and Charley Crockett
EDITOR’S NOTE: Charley Crockett is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for September. Learn more about him and his new album, Music City USA (out today), in our feature story, and look for more from Crockett all month long.
Charley Crockett is a one hell of a storyteller, something that’
With ‘A Southern Gothic,’ Adia Victoria Tells Her Own Story of the South
The phrase “Southern Gothic” brings to mind moss-draped drives to plantations, grotesque scenes peopled by mean-spirited men or by sideshow freaks, and haunted woods and houses with the skeletons of slavery filling the closets. In his novel Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner has one of his characters ask another to “Tell
The Felice Brothers Paint a Dark But Hopeful World on ‘From Dreams to Dust’
Cloaking a fear of doom and uncertainty in a joyful, vibrant sound is the name of the game on the latest release from The Felice Brothers, From Dreams to Dust. Ruminating on what often feels like end times, James and Ian Felice have created textured story-poems about survival and the
The Barefoot Movement Bends Bluegrass Toward Fresh Territory on ‘Pressing Onward’
If you catch The Barefoot Movement at a bluegrass festival, you’re going to get the standard blazing fast instrumental runs in traded-off solos, beautiful harmonies, love songs and heartbreak songs.
But what you won’t get is bored. Members of the band, founded in North Carolina in 2006, are
Rod Gator (Formerly Melancon) Embraces Change to Get Back to Himself
“I had to change my name to feel more like myself,” Rod Gator says from his home in Austin.
He’s talking about his recent transformation from Rod Melancon, the name under which the bayou-bred rocker released all his previous music, but he’s also talking about his powerful new