ALBUM REVIEW: After a Year Off the Internet, Gabriel Kahane Soars With ‘Magnificent Bird’
Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane has all the usual digital tools required to be a musician in 2022. He's got the social media accounts and the websites and the Bandcamp presence, because without them, you might as well be trying to telegraph your fans. Which makes it all the
ALBUM REVIEW: Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves Mesmerize With Banjo and Fiddle
Anyone who has ever listened to a classical Indian raga knows the feeling: A little way into the performance you stop listening to the individual performers and get swept up into a dreamy musical trance.
The same trippy effect can come from what otherwise would be stringband old-timey Americana.
ALBUM REVIEW: Ian Noe Brings ‘River Fools & Mountain Saints’ Vividly to Life
Whether or not you’ve been traveling these days, Ian Noe’s River Fools & Mountain Saints will transport you to a mythic view of Eastern Kentucky. The album came to Noe before the songs were even written. With each side devoted to river fools and mountain saints, respectively, Noe
SPOTLIGHT: Jeremy Ivey on Finding the Little Victories
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeremy Ivey is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for March 2022. Learn more about him and his new album, Invisible Pictures (out now), in our interview and in this video.
I’ve been listening to Charley Patton on a cheap turntable singing “Rattlesnake Blues.” The sky is
ALBUM REVIEW: Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Hew to Tradition While Embracing the Progressive on 'Never Slow Down'
The world of bluegrass has a reputation for holding fast to tradition, nodding always to the past. But all things and people came from somewhere, and it’s important to honor the lived experiences of the previous generations. And musicians especially tend to put their own spins on what it
Inside Mike Compton’s ‘Rare & Fine’ Collection of Bill Monroe’s Unreleased Songs
EDITOR’S NOTE: We asked mandolinist Mike Compton about his lifelong obsession with bluegrass forefather Bill Monroe and how it led to his latest project, Rare & Fine: Uncommon Tunes of Bill Monroe. Below are Compton’s reflections, along with some songs from the project, which came out March 4.