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
Scorsese Film Captures the Sights, Sounds, and Feel of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue
WARNING: This review contains some spoilers. Please save it for later if you would prefer to see the movie first.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself, or finding anything. It’s about creating yourself.” — Bob Dylan
Life is a carnival. However, the past is close behind. American history, like the