SPOTLIGHT: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms Put 'Gold in Your Pocket' with Love and Collective Joy
EDITOR’S NOTE: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms are No Depression’s Spotlight artists for Nov. 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Gold in Your Pocket (out Nov.15 on Free Dirt Records), and look for more all month long.
Before he ever saw her, Caleb Klauder
BONUS TRACKS: Music, In Spite of it All
In spite of it all, music happened this week.
I dug deep into my vinyl collection this week and listened to Rage Against The Machine’s debut and IDLES’ 2018 LP titled Joy As An Act of Resistance. I listened to relatively new punk records like Childbirth’s Women’s
No Depression Sessions at AMERICANAFEST 2024: Kashus Culpepper
Alabama singer-songwriter Kashus Culpepper joined us in the Record Room at Jaan's House in Nashville for his No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24. Culpepper performed three songs in his inimitable way, voice full of sandpaper and gravel, building intensity and volume until peaking with the final refrain
THE READING ROOM: New Book Celebrates Street Singing Traditions
In 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival celebrated the lives and music of a group of fictional street singers Willy and the Poor Boys in their hit song “Down on the Corner.” As the four boys gather on the corner near suppertime, there’s a “happy noise” as they try “to bring
FOUNDERS KEEPERS: 25 Years of Mary Gauthier's 'Drag Queens In Limousines'
Twenty-five years ago Mary Gauthier was a singing chef — a novelty from Baton Rouge, who was trying to find her voice and hold on to her sobriety in deepest Boston — gambling there might be an audience willing to listen to an album of hard-won songs titled Drag Queens In Limousines.
ALBUM REVIEW: Yonder Mountain String Band Heads Somewhere Good on 'Nowhere Next'
Despite the title of Yonder Mountain String Band’s new album, Nowhere Next, they’re always headed somewhere, blazing new sonic trails and revisiting some familiar musical territory. For the album’s 11 songs (it’s their 11th album, as well), the band chases each other around the tablature with