Kinky Friedman on Louis Kemp’s new Bob Dylan book, Alec Baldwin on Dylan’s gym
Friedman on SiriusXM’s Beatles’ channel, Baldwin on Howard Stern, reveal new information about Bob Dylan
If you’ve been listening to SiriusXM lately, you may have heard some interesting news about Bob Dylan. On the satellite station’s Fab Fourum program, broadcast on The Beatles Channel (18), Texas singer-songwriter,
Seven Scottish-Americana Artists Deserving Wider Acclaim
In my ever expanding quest to report on roots music in other parts of the world, this week our attention is turned to what's happening on the other side of the Atlantic. Again, we have Scotland's Carol Graham to share her insights, enthusiasm, and photographs of
'We Traveled So Far': Mary Chapin Carpenter at The Barbican, London
A feeling that has frequently dominated Mary Chapin Carpenter's shows is reflection. An artist who bares her soul through her songs sends audiences home musing over the emotions she so lucidly expressed. Reflection was the theme of Carpenter’s London appearance, deepened this time by her new album
Our Communal Heart Beats Miles From Here: Scott Hutchison's Beautiful Legacy
How do we describe what darkness looks like when the very absence of light strips our photoreceptors of information?
How do we give shape to the experience of depression when its very nature--simultaneously shapeless and shape-shifting--makes it hard to define, let alone fight?
Some musicians use metaphors and elliptical references--a
Violins of Hope Voice Stories of the Past
EDITOR'S NOTE: This summer, we're focusing on themes of immigration and migration in music both here at NoDepression.com and in our print journal, and this story is an excerpt of one that will appear in the upcoming print issue. Don’t miss a thing! Subscribe
A Note on Music, Mental Health, and Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison
Scottish folk-rock band Frightened Rabbit reported its songwriter and frontman Scott Hutchison missing on Wednesday, and early this morning (in America) Scottish police confirmed that a body recovered in Port Edgar, near the South Queensferry neighborhood of Edinburgh, was his.
The apparent suicide comes in fairly quick succession of two