ND Reviewers and Writers Pick Their Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2020
This year, as we have every year since 2004, we gave our readers the impossible task of choosing their 10 favorite roots music albums from among the year’s new releases. In 2020, as always, readers took up the challenge enthusiastically, with more than 6,800 chiming in to create
Bronwynne Brent Makes Songs About Connecting on ‘Undercover’
EDITOR'S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn't get a chance to review but we think are worthy of your attention. Undercover was released in
Iconic Bluegrass Guitarist Tony Rice Dies at Age 69
The International Bluegrass Music Association announced on its social media channels Saturday that iconic bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice passed away on Christmas Day at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was 69 years old.
"Sometime during Christmas morning while making his coffee, our dear friend and guitar hero
Shemekia Copeland – 'Clotilda's on Fire'
A feature track on Shemekia Copeland’s celebrated new album, Uncivil War, “Clotilda’s on Fire” tells the powerful story of the last slave ship to sail to America, more than 50 years after the slave trade was outlawed. Produced by Will Kimbrough and driven by Jason Isbell’s gritty
No Depression Readers' 50 Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2020
In a year when everything was upended and scary, No Depression readers reached eagerly, and perhaps understandably, for what’s familiar. Topping our 2020 Year-End Readers Poll, which received more than 6,800 ballots, were new albums from roots music’s current leading voices like Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, and
2020’s Silver Lining? A Whole Lotta Roots Music Cover Albums
With touring forced to a halt in 2020, artists found themselves with time on their hands, and the creative spirit stops for no virus. Many musicians channeled their energies into cover songs as they waited things out at home, playing them on livestreams to delighted fans and, in some cases,