SPOTLIGHT: Watch AJ Lee and Blue Summit Perform ‘Hillside’ 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level
EDITOR’S NOTE: AJ Lee and Blue Summit are No Depression’s Spotlight band for July 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, City of Glass (out July 19 on Signature Sounds) in our interview, and look for more all month long.
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BONUS TRACKS: 431 (!!!) Live Recordings from Bob Dylan
Most live albums feature maybe a concert’s worth of songs, whether recorded all in one performance or collected from different points along a tour. But Bob Dylan isn’t most artists. His 1974 Live Recordings collection announced this week will deliver a whopping 431 tracks (the real number! not
ALBUM REVIEW: As Johnny Blue Skies, Sturgill Simpson Wrings Every Drop Out of Heartbreak
Sturgill Simpson says he intended to release five albums under his own name, and then record as someone else. (He’s already put out seven, but never mind.) So now he’s become Johnny Blue Skies, whose “debut” longplayer, Passage du Desir, is a harrowing account of terminal loneliness and
ALBUM REVIEW: Billy Strings Stretches Out on Full-Spirited First Live Album
Billy Strings had to throw a tantrum to get his first real guitar. Exposed to dad and friends jamming in the kitchen of the family trailer from the vantage point of his high chair, Strings was gifted a toy guitar at the age of 3. A year later he spotted
In the Deep End With Jewel
The Portal: An Art Experience By Jewel is definitely that — an experience. The multifaceted gallery exhibit takes place at Bentonville, Arkansas' Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (a sister organization to The Momentary, which hosts FreshGrass |Bentonville) and comprises an art walk, a technological guided tour, curated food and
ALBUM REVIEW: Cassandra Lewis’ Winding Path Weaves a Rich Tapestry for ‘Lost in a Dream’
“Road’s been too rough to walk alone” Cassandra Lewis admits on “Too Much,” the opening track of her major-label debut, Lost in a Dream.
And what a life it’s been, beginning with a driftless childhood that found her regional fame as a kid yodeler in Idaho, then operating