ALBUM REVIEW: The Honey Dewdrops Mine Moments of Humanity on ‘Light Behind Light’
Whether they’re telling a life story or zooming in on a single moment, The Honey Dewdrops have a way of filling their songs with humanity, using their beautiful playing and harmonies to emphasize what connects us all.
On Light Behind Light, the seventh album from Baltimore-based Kagey Parrish
‘Get On Board’: Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder Together Again for Tribute to Their Blues Heroes
It’s been a long time since 1965. Back then, Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder were kids, plucky upstarts playing together in the band Rising Sons with a mutual love of the deeply rhythmic Piedmont style of the blues.
The Rising Sons split up in 1966 after recording an album
ALBUM REVIEW: Edgar Winter Recruits Derek Trucks, Joe Walsh, and More for Tribute to ‘Brother Johnny’
Johnny Winter cast a long shadow. The fiery blues-rocker and arguably best slide player of all time influenced a generation of guitarists, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, sending young rock fans back to the blues roots to discover the Black artists Winter dug up,
ALBUM REVIEW: Justin Golden Delivers a Knockout Debut with ‘Hard Times and a Woman’
Can this really be the work of a rookie? Hard Times and a Woman is so fully realized and so compelling it’s hard to believe Justin Golden is practically a newcomer. While the Virginia native has dropped a few stray tracks over the last few years, there’s been
SPOTLIGHT: Joshua Hedley on Home and Heart in Robert’s Western World
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joshua Hedley is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2022. Read more about Hedley and his new album, Neon Blue (out April 22), here, and look for more from him all month long.
Located at 416 Broadway, in the heart of Music City, nestled within the
ALBUM REVIEW: Amy Speace Sides With Survivors, Tells Her Own Story on ‘Tucson’
Hauntingly beautiful in its spacious lyricism, Amy Speace’s new album, Tucson, floats through a powerfully emotional landscape, moving from darkness to dawn tentatively but with the increasing confidence of a survivor gaining power over the past by being there for others.
Like poets Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop, Speace