BONUS TRACKS: Drive-By Truckers Announce Tour Revisiting ‘Southern Rock Opera’
“It ain’t about the past,” the Drive-By Truckers proclaimed this week in announcing a tour to revisit their 2001 Southern Rock Opera double album. That’s because so many of those songs still speak to the state of the South — and “the duality of the Southern thing,” to borrow
ALBUM REVIEW: With ‘Bright Future,’ Adrianne Lenker Underscores Her Depth and Versatility
On the heels of Big Thief’s opus, 2022’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (ND review) and her mercurial solo diptych, 2020’s Songs and Instrumentals, Adrianne Lenker releases her latest non-band venture, Bright Future. Throughout the set, Lenker works with loose song structures, laid-back instrumentation,
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SPOTLIGHT: Good Deeds Get Answered on Joe Pug’s ‘No Place a Good Man Can Hide’ [VIDEO]
EDITOR'S NOTE: Joe Pug is No Depression's Spotlight artist for March 2024. Learn more about him and his new album, Sketch of a Promised Departure, in our interview, and look for more from Pug all month long.
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THE READING ROOM: New Book Follows Blind Boys of Alabama Along the Gospel Highway
Since 1939, The Blind Boys of Alabama have been riding up and down the gospel highway in the US, “wrecking houses” — channeling the Holy Ghost through their music and rousing congregations to leap, run up and down and dance in the aisles — in every town they visited.
During their long
ALBUM REVIEW: The Staves, Now a Duo, Keep Eyes on the Present on ‘All Now’
All Now, the fifth album from UK sister act The Staves, is their first as a duo, following the departure of Emily Staveley-Taylor. However, the reconfigured group remains at the height of their confidence on All Now, which begins with a triumphant, self-titled mission statement (“It’s all now, isn’
A Century of Women’s Suffrage Flows Through Aoife O’Donovan’s ‘All My Friends’
Aoife O’Donovan maintains she’s not a political songwriter. Not intentionally, or outwardly, anyway. Sitting outside on her balcony in Central Florida, laughing about her coincidental fashion choice of a dad hat embroidered with the state’s outline, O’Donovan considers an artist’s public role in political matters.