JOURNAL EXCERPT: Inside the Movement Toward Sustainable Vinyl Records
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Fall 2020 journal, “Going Green.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music journalism, in print and online, all year
'First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder' Shows Todd Snider's Carnivalesque World
Todd Snider’s made a career of skewering our inflated ideas of ourselves and getting back to the bones of emotion and ragged humor of existence. He’s a reliable narrator to turn the world upside down in his lyrics, offering his own nod-and-a-wink take on both his own shortcomings
Forty Years After First Guitar Album, Mark O’Connor Returns With ‘Markology II’
Over 40 years is a long time to wait for anything, much less the sequel to an album. But when that album is Markology II, the first guitar album released by fiddle virtuoso and legend Mark O’Connor since Markology in 1978, it’s well worth the wait.
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Amigo the Devil Journeys Through the Darkness on 'Born Against'
At the end of his new record, Born Against, Amigo the Devil — also known as songwriter and musician Danny Kiranos — sings, "When the darkness of the tunnel is the last place I go, you're the closest thing to heaven I'll ever need." The lyrics
The Brother Brothers Move Through Songs and Seasons on ‘Calla Lily’
Calla Lily, the sophomore album from The Brother Brothers, opens with a song that expresses what is undoubtedly a shared sentiment amongst musicians at this point. “On the Road Again” captures that unmistakable itch to get back to touring life, to some kind of norm. Though it was written before
THE READING ROOM: Get to Know Zilphia Horton, An Activist Who Used Music to Make ‘A Singing Army’
Over Labor Day weekend in 1941, photographer Edward Weston and his wife, Charis, the sister of Highlander Folk School’s librarian, Leon Wilson, stopped at the school for a visit. Weston was traveling across the country taking photographs to accompany a special edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.