ALBUM REVIEW: With 'Watterson Hall,' William Clark Green Embraces a Mainstream Sound
With his seventh album, Watterson Hall, William Clark Green blends old-country stances and new-country sounds, addressing such subjects as love, partying, and feeling down but keeping your chin up. Throughout the fifty-minute set, Green acknowledges the inevitability of hardships while insisting that life is a gift we should never take
ALBUM REVIEW: Chemistry, Storytelling Propel Sons of Town Hall’s ‘Of Ghosts and Gods’
Conceptual pieces and performance can easily go awry. It takes quality songwriting and a real performative commitment to not only tell a story, but to imbue it with intellectual and emotional resonance. On its new album Of Ghosts and Gods, transatlantic folk duo David Berkeley and Ben Parker, aka Sons
ALBUM REVIEW: Brit Taylor's ‘Land of the Forgotten’ Is One Banger After Another
Brit Taylor casually strings together 11 songwriting masterclasses on her latest album, Land of the Forgotten. The album is dedicated to the small victories and near-misses of Appalachia, which Taylor has traversed as a professional singer since she was a child. Forgotten lovingly pays homage to Taylor’s East Kentucky
No Depression’s Best of February 2026 Playlist
For the shortest month of the year, February was still chock-full of great new roots music. Spotlight artist Big Richard blessed No Depression with a brilliant essay on where the get the audacity to be one of the most ferocious and funny bluegrassers around and Nashville-via-New Zealand fiddler George Jackson
THROUGH THE LENS: Wintergrass Festival 2026 Celebrated the Radical Traditional!
For its 33rd edition, the Wintergrass Festival (February 19-22, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington) pulled out all the stops to celebrate traditional roots music and its evolution.
The fest's self-proclaimed theme was “Rad Trad! Listen, Learn, Belong.” With performances by Bruce Molsky, Darol Anger,
ALBUM REVIEW: Pert Near Sandstone Shine Compassion into a Troubled World with ‘Side by Side’
Friendship and kinship lie at the heart of Pert Near Sandstone’s ninth studio album, Side by Side. “I know there’s strength in numbers, and so much joy that will be felt,” sings J. Lenz in “Quiet Hours,” gathering the listener closer for the whispered promise. Community is invaluable,