ALBUM REVIEW: Folk-Music Vets Celebrate Lives Well Lived in ‘Together Again’
It started during the pandemic. Cooped up in their homes, folk-music vets Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon began meeting for weekly writing sessions over Zoom, ultimately composing nearly 200 songs. That collaboration inspired these old friends to record the 2023 album, Together. Now they’re following it with Together Again,
A Postcard From The SteelDrivers
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s “Postcard From” series features dispatches from artists' daily lives on the road, in the studio, or anywhere in between. Our next installment comes from The SteelDrivers, who celebrated 20 years of being a band with a new album last year and a performance
THROUGH THE LENS: Mountain Stage Celebrates 42 Years of Presenting Roots Music
QUEER COUNTRY: The Best Queer Roots Music of 2025
If you're reading this, you have a sense of how deeply important No Depression is to independent roots music. Maybe you've been reading since the glossy magazine days of the 1990s (I have a vivid memory of picking up this issue with Lucinda Williams on the
ALBUM REVIEW, What We Missed: Austin Quintet Ulla Makes Magic with Traditional Sounds of the British Isles On ‘Ulla II’
Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series
ALBUM REVIEW, What We Missed: Kasambwe Brothers’ Debut Speaks of Unity
Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series