Forty Years After ‘The Iowa Waltz,’ Greg Brown’s Voice Rumbles Across Generations
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SPOTLIGHT: ‘Like Sucking the Poison from a Snake Bite,’ Allison Russell Shares Her Story on ‘Outside Child’
EDITOR’S NOTE: Allison Russell is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Outside Child, out May 21 on Fantasy Records, all month long.
Allison Russell’s first solo album, Outside Child, soars on wings of resilience and redemption, but not
FreshGrass | North Adams Announces Lineup for 10th Annual Festival
The annual FreshGrass Festival — presented by No Depression’s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation — is officially returning to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, on Sept. 24-26, 2021. And today, FreshGrass | North Adams announced its initial lineup for its 10th anniversary event.
Known for programming innovative and exciting roots, and
Ashley Monroe Paints with a Pop Palette on ‘Rosegold’
It doesn’t take long for Ashley Monroe to seize control on Rosegold. “There’s nowhere else that you would rather be,” she sings on album opener “Siren.” Okay, then.
Monroe has good reason for her artistic confidence after the acclaim for Sparrow in 2018 (produced by the brilliant Dave
THE READING ROOM: Richard Thompson Reflects on Fairport Convention, Songwriting, and More
The best music memoirs simply unfold the moments of an artist’s life, without fanfare and without a desire to get even with former bandmates or friends. The best memoirs reveal to us — and revel in — what the Romantic poet William Wordsworth called “spots of time,” those moments that stand
50 STATES OF FOLK: A Jazz Incubator in Nebraska’s North Omaha
When most people think of big-band jazz, they’re probably thinking of glittery urban scenes in the Roaring ’20s. They’re thinking art deco dancehalls and Prohibition-era speakeasies. There’s something about the idea of a brassy jazz band that evokes imagery of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York City.