Rhett Miller’s Top 5 Songs Right Now
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the change to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through the days. The first installment comes
ALBUM REVIEW: A ‘Hallejujah!’ Moment for Soul-Blues Warhorse Robert Finley
Robert Finley titled his first album Age Don’t Mean a Thing. The singer and guitarist was obviously aiming to make a point, since that 2016 debut came when he was 62 years old. And what a debut it was, introducing a soul-blues man whose music burst with a raw
ALBUM REVIEW: Honoring Cindy Walker with ‘It’s All Her Fault’ Tribute Album Grey DeLisle and Friends Lift up One of Country’s Greatest Songwriters
Prolific country songwriter Cindy Walker certainly deserves to be celebrated. In 1970 she became a charter member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1977 Walker was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. From the 1940s through the 1980s, Walker penned hits for artists ranging from
ALBUM REVIEW: Traveling through 'Here and Nowhere' with the Autumn Defense
When this side-project first surfaced around the time of Wilco’s game-changing Yankee Hotel Foxtrot a quarter-century ago, I recall some folks looking at me sideways when I told them that I liked the Autumn Defense’s new album more. It probably sounded like a contrarian pose, but I was
ALBUM REVIEW: Bernie Leadon Right on Time with ‘Too Late to be Cool’
It’s been too long since we’ve heard new music from Bernie Leadon. Leadon, of course, helped usher in Americana music during his days with the Flying Burrito Brothers and Dillard & Clark, and co-founded the Eagles, for whom he co-wrote “Witchy Woman” and “Train Leaves Here This Morning,
ALBUM REVIEW: Live-Room Warmth Cushions Modern Spiritual Exhaustion on Josh Fortenbery’s 'Tidy Memorial'
Josh Fortenbery is like any of us. He’s just trying to get by.
The Alaska songwriter’s second album, Tidy Memorial opens with “Heaven’s Above,” a song set in the daily spiritual crush of this fucked-up era. “It’s not like I can’t see what’s wrong,