THE READING ROOM: New Anthology Tells More of the Story of 'How Women Made Music'
There is a sense in which this book should not need to be written. Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Mother Maybelle Carter, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, among others, are the fount of the blues, jazz, gospel, country, and rock. So the title of this book gets it just right:
ALBUM REVIEW: On 'Still+Bright' Amythyst Kiah's Anti-Optimism is a Hopeful Warning
Chattanooga native Amythyst Kiah’s sophomore album, Wary + Strange, functions like an emotional exorcism: 41 minutes of grunge-tinged folk, bluesy and anguished on some tracks, proclamatory in others, but altogether intended to unburden Kiah of the grief she has carried with her since her mother’s suicide in the early
SPOTLIGHT: Joy Clark on Intuition and Quiet Rebellion
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joy Clark is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for October 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Tell it to the Wind, out now on Righteous Babe Records, in our interview. And watch her perform “Lesson” from the album just for ND readers in this
Rhiannon Giddens Starts Biscuits & Banjos Music Festival to Celebrate Black Culture
Rhiannon Giddens is starting a music festival. The Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician announced today that her first Biscuits & Banjos music festival will take place in Durham North Carolina next April as a celebration of Black music, art, and culture and the 20th anniversary of the Black Banjo Gathering.
THROUGH THE LENS: Roots Music Legends Abound at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024
Every October the eyes and ears of roots music fans everywhere turn to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The Park’s landscape includes 680 forested acres, 130 acres of meadows, and 33 acres of lakes, but it’s the one-of-a-kind fest Hardly Strictly Bluegrass that draws our
No Depression Sessions AMERICANAFEST 2024: Aoife O'Donovan
Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan joined us in the Carter-Cash dressing room in Nashville's iconic Ryman Auditorium for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24. O'Donovan shared two songs including the title track from her current album All My Friends, leading with a devastating acapella