Album Companion to ‘Hanging Tree Guitars’ Book Offers Raw Look at Race Relations
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. The Hanging Tree Guitars
What Taylor Swift’s 'folklore' and 'evermore' Give to Roots Music
I wish I could remember where I once heard the brilliant theory that the band Mumford & Sons were like the Cheetos and sweatpants of folk music. I recall the coined term “gateway folk” being the entry point to this analogy, essentially comparing the band’s music to smoking pot,
O Brother, Where Aren’t Thou?: The Two-Decade Cultural Impact of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’
Editor's Note: No Depression is thrilled to reshare this deep-dive into the history and legacy of the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, originally commissioned for its 20th anniversary. Five years later, the recently relaunched Lost Highway record label reissued a special edition, double gatefold LP on "
JOURNAL EXCERPT: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Offers Musicians a Multiverse of Creativity
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Strung Like a Horse – 'Crazy Like Me'
Strung Like a Horse releases their first official video, “Crazy Like Me,” from their debut studio album, WHOA!, produced by renowned Grammy-winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, John Prine, Margo Price). The record this month debuted at #2 on the Amazon Alt-Country/Americana chart, #2 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart,
Dave Alvin Looks Back Across Time, Genres, and Instruments on ‘From an Old Guitar’
It ain’t easy to drop a lasso around Dave Alvin’s neck and rope him into a musical corral. Since 1979, Alvin’s been a rockin’ county-western folkie soulful bluesblaster, first with brother Phil and then on his own. Alvin was the chief songwriter for the brotherly Blasters and