SPOTLIGHT: Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood on Writing Songs in 21st Century USA
EDITOR'S NOTE: Patterson Hood's band, Drive-By Truckers, is No Depression's Spotlight band for January 2020. Read our feature about the Truckers and their new album, The Unraveling, here.
The regulations state that a bus driver must take an 8-10 hour break for every 10
Hawktail’s ‘Formations’ Soars Past Genre Expectations
When old-time fiddler Brittany Haas, guitarist Jordan Tice, mandolinist Dominick Leslie, and Punch Brothers bassist Paul Kowert join forces as instrumental quartet Hawktail, they become more than a supergroup for any specific genre. As new album Formations proves, the band members defy expectations based on other projects or instruments of
SPOTLIGHT: Drive-By Truckers Take On Politics, Thoughts and Prayers, and Writer’s Block
EDITOR'S NOTE: Drive-By Truckers are No Depression's Spotlight band for January 2020. Look for more on the band and their new album, The Unraveling (out Jan. 31), all month long.
There’s an interesting juxtaposition on the cover of Drive-By Truckers’ new record. The artwork is
ND ARTIST OF THE DECADE: Dave Cobb on Jason Isbell’s Music, Real Life, and Shoe Game
Debut Album from AJ Lee and Blue Summit Backs Up the Buzz
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Like I Used To was released in May.
One of the most awarded young bands in bluegrass, AJ Lee and Blue Summit, backed up its
No Depression Critics’ 20 Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2019
Throughout the year, the reviewers, columnists, writers, and staff at No Depression have our radars up and ears tuned to great roots music. We hear the good, the not-so-good, and, occasionally, the ugly. But the good stuff really sticks with us. It’s the albums we can’t shut up