BONUS TRACKS: Wilco and Billy Bragg to Play 'Mermaid Avenue' Live and More Roots Music News
When Chicago's roots-rock band Wilco and England's protest-folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg first teamed up to add music to unfinished Woody Guthrie lyrics, the impact reached far beyond the roots music niche. The 1998 album, Mermaid Avenue, was a smash, having been certified Gold in Australia and
NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Lucinda's: Margaret Glaspy
We are absolutely thrilled to kick off a new No Depression Session series in partnership with NYC honky-tonk Lucinda’s and Hiatus Tequila. When Lucinda Williams teamed up with industry lifers Laura McCarthy and Kelley Swindall to create a Southern country bar in NYC’s East Village with a killer
In the Deep End with Brennen Leigh
“Everything’s bigger in Texas / that includes heartache, too,” country singer/songwriter Brennen Leigh sings on “Alone In The Lone Star,” off her latest album. Leigh, who’s a meticulous explorer of country music subgenre ought to know, after all. Her hefty catalogue and trove of personal knowledge encompass not
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SPOTLIGHT: William Prince - "All The Same [VIDEO]
Editor's Note: William Prince is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for October 2025. Learn more about his new album, Further From the Country, in this deeply personal essay and stay tuned for more from Prince all month long.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Rockabilly Patriarch Carl Perkins Shines Bright on ‘Some Things Never Change’
In its mid-‘50s heyday, Sun Records launched the careers of some high-wattage talents, among them Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison. Though not the first name that comes to mind when you think of the revolutionary Memphis label, Carl Perkins got his start there, too.
ALBUM REVIEW: Jonny Fritz Is Still Goofing — And Still Getting to the Point on ‘Debbie Downers’
Jonny Fritz long ago established himself as a kind of reliable clown of country music, recording genuinely great songs that always toed the line of absurdity. A master of people-watching and zooming in on the funniest details of the mundane—the gravity of trash pick-up day, the characters that frequent