THROUGH THE LENS: Rosanne Cash and Ry Cooder – The Songs of Johnny Cash
It was billed as "Cash & Cooder on Cash: The Songs of Johnny Cash." A short five-city tour, two now, the other three in this fall. I caught the first one at Ryman Auditorium, and fellow ND writer Henry Carrigan went two nights later in Chicago. (See the
SPOTLIGHT: Come Along as Buddy Miller Shows Aaron Lee Tasjan around His Home Studio
While Buddy and Julie Miller recorded their new album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, in their bedroom, the studio in the downstairs of their Nashville home has been the site of countless fantastic recordings, including some from Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, The War and Treaty, and Solomon Burke.
Recently, Buddy
Silver Linings Weave through Fruit Bats’ ‘Gold Past Life’
Eric D. Johnson describes the process of creating the music for Gold Past Life as “a soothing balm,” which is exactly what it’s like to listen to it. With his first album under the Fruit Bats moniker since 2016’s Absolute Loser, Johnson reminds us of his superhuman ability
SPOTLIGHT: Julie Miller on Friendship, Faith, and What We Have in Our Hearts
EDITOR’S NOTE: We asked Buddy and Julie Miller, No Depression’s Spotlight artists for June 2019, for an essay letting us in on their lives as their new album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South — their first album together in a decade — was being made. Julie offered this heartfelt remembrance
Jim Lauderdale on Tai Chi and Learning How to Listen
Between his own shows, recording sessions, and collaborations with countless other people, Jim Lauderdale is a busy guy. But every day he makes time to step away from it all — preferably outside, but anywhere quiet will do — to turn his focus inward through his practice of tai chi.
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Chris Robinson Brotherhood Continues Psychedelic Journey on ‘Servants of the Sun’
It’s unwise to corner Chris Robinson Brotherhood into any one specific genre; since the release of the band’s first two studio albums, 2012’s Big Moon Ritual and The Magic Door, the Brotherhood has taken its fans on a psychedelic circuit that seems to have no evolutionary end