ALBUM REVIEW: Mike Farris Delivers Soul from Muscle Shoals
Mike Farris was born to record in Muscle Shoals. If you close your eyes when you’re listening to Farris’s new album, The Sound of Muscle Shoals, you’d swear you’re listening to Clarence Carter, Wilson Pickett, or Joe South. Drenched in the bone-shaking power of soul and
THROUGH THE LENS: Folk Alliance International & Wintergrass Gatherings Bring Roots Music to the Forefront
This week’s column takes us, in the throes of winter, up north, where two roots music events occurred on the same overlapping weekend: Folk Alliance International in Montreal, Canada (February 19-23, 2025); and Wintergrass in Bellevue, Wash. (20-23, 2025).
In addition to presenting full schedules of live music, the
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Blue Sky Sundays’, JD Clayton Shows Us the Way Back Home
You can’t go home again. Or, at least, that’s what they say.
That’s because home is never really how you remember it, as if someone came in while you were away and moved your trusted memories a half-inch. There’s something different about it all, about the
ALBUM REVIEW: Them Coulee Boys' 'No Fun in the Chrysalis,' Highlights the Importance of Appreciating Every Moment
Within seconds of their newest LP's beginning, Them Coulee Boys deliver the album’s titular phrase, “no fun in the chrysalis," shortly after, they follow with the declaration: “Change is a funny thing / Pain can make you sing.” It’s a fitting statement of intent for an
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SPOTLIGHT: Mountains by Cristina Vane [ESSAY]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cristina Vane is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2025. Read more about her and her new album, Hear My Call, out Feb. 21, in this feature and check out this ND exclusive video.
Mountains are the buckling points of the earth’s tension, a visual
Joe Ely Digs Into His Archives For Songs of 'Love And Freedom'
Joe Ely has been a prime mover in Americana music since the days before it was called Americana. From the early-’70s origins of the Flatlanders with his childhood Lubbock pals Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, through a run of MCA albums that earned him an opening slot on