THROUGH THE LENS: The Many Memories of the Newport Folk Festival
As we get ready to stream this year’s Newport Folk Festival, titled “Newport Folk Revival Weekend,” photographer/writer Jim Brock, who has attended five of the last six festivals, shares with us some of his thoughts, memories, and favorite moments from those years. And, of course, his one-of-a-kind photos.
SPOTLIGHT: Samantha Crain on How Her Powerlifting Past Comes in Handy for Touring
EDITOR’S NOTE: Samantha Crain is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for July 2020. Read more about Crain and her new album, A Small Death, in our feature story, and see a video of Crain playing her song “Holding to the Edge of Night” from home here.
Distance gives perspective.
THE LONG HAUL: Passing the Mic, Part 2
This month, I’ve been working on learning and unlearning, and trying to do better in the fight for racial justice. Somewhere in that process, it came to my attention that my voice is not the one that needs to be heard on this platform right now. So I asked
Courtney Marie Andrews on John Prine and Pouring Her Heart Out on ‘Old Flowers’
Last year, Courtney Marie Andrews was in Lisbon, Portugal, taking some time away from home to write. One evening at a fado cafe, she hit it off with a Portuguese poet after playing a song for him. Deep into the night, he recited songs and poems to her. One in
Rhiannon Giddens and Ben Harper on Collaboration and Common Ground
Rhiannon Giddens and Ben Harper had heard about each other for years, but they hadn’t met until they found themselves in the same room for a Grammy Museum event last year.
Harper heard Giddens perform with her partner Francesco Turrisi at the event, and when they chatted afterward they
S.G. Goodman Gives ‘Old Time Feeling’ an Exciting New Voice
All it takes is a few notes from the opening track of S.G. Goodman’s debut album, Old Time Feeling, to know you’re about to hear something singular and special. Blessed with a one-of-a-kind voice that cuts through the atmosphere like a sharp blade, Goodman sings the kind