BONUS TRACKS: How Southwest Airlines' New Policy Impacts Musicians and More Roots Music News
This week, Southwest Airlines announced that the Texas-based company will end its highly-favored policy of two free checked bags for each passenger flying. The change is set to take place starting May 28, 2025. According to Reuters, via the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, baggage fees yielded more than $7
ALBUM REVIEW: With Piano and Voice, Rose Cousins Makes a Daring Exploration of ‘Conditions of Love’
It might certainly feel as though love, by now, has been explored in song from every conceivable angle. What more can there be to say? Plenty, it turns out, for as keen an observer and as bold a songwriter as Rose Cousins.
But on Conditions of Love, Vol. 1, Cousins
SPOTLIGHT: "All Risk, All Reward." Olivia Ellen Lloyd is Ready to 'Do It Myself'
Editor's Note: Olivia Ellen Lloyd is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for March 2025. Learn more about her life and upcoming album, Do It Myself, to be released March 21, in this feature, and keep an eye out for more all month long.
Olivia Ellen Lloyd’s
ALBUM REVIEW: Bluegrass Stalwarts The Seldom Scene Return With 'Remains To Be Scene'
In the beginning, The Seldom Scene was heard more than seen. But as word spread of their prowess, the band was coerced away from their hometowns and day jobs to play music in front of people. Formed in Bethesda, Maryland in 1971, the original Scene was comprised of mandolinist John
ALBUM REVIEW: Jason Boland and the Stragglers return to their roots on 'Last Kings of Babylon'
The new Jason Boland and the Stragglers album closes with an image right out of Steinbeck: “Lonesome travelers and rambling types / shuffling down some unknown trail tonight,” Boland sings in “Buffalo Return,” penned by late Oklahoma songwriter Jimmy LaFave. “In your hobo jungles and your boxcar dreams / living only by
Risk and Reward: Sierra Hull Goes Indie for ‘A Tip Toe High Wire’
It’s hard to put a label on Sierra Hull. She grew up in bluegrass, but she and her mandolin have stretched those roots far beyond any one genre. She’s found success as a solo artist, but she revels in collaborations. She emerged as a child prodigy, debuting at