SPOTLIGHT: Jude Brothers’ Kaleidoscopic Album ‘Dogwood Maiden Voyage’ Navigates Through Nature and Reinvention
Editor's Note: Jude Brothers, whose new LP titled Dogwood Maiden Voyage is due out September 25 via Gar Hole Records, is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for September 2026. Stay tuned all month for more about this Ozarks singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
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FRESH TRACK: Todd Mack - "9-11+25"
For more than 40 years, singer-songwriter Todd Mack has voyaged the road less traveled. His musical endeavors have taken him all over the world, performing in some unexpected places. The famed Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club, a bomb shelter in Israel, a remote island in Fiji, an olive grove
THROUGH THE LENS: The Insider’s Guide to AMERICANAFEST 2026
Of all the many Americana Music Association’s AMERICANAFEST extravaganzas I’ve attended I cannot recall one that I have been more excited about. The Association has outdone itself this year, the line-up is chock full of emerging talent on the verge of busting out to wider audiences. Simply
Buddy Miller Mixes Country-Soul Classics With Fresh Originals on Self-Titled Return
Buddy Miller has recorded music under his own name for the last 30 years, but his influence on roots music stretches far wider. He began playing in the ’70s in Austin, where he met his future wife Julie Griffin when they both were in a band called Partners in Crime.
BONUS TRACKS: Johnny Cash's Comic Book Reissue, Trey Anastasio and Billy Strings' Benefit Concerts, and More Roots Music News
After 50 years, the original comic books written and self-funded by Johnny Cash are being reissued by Z2 Comics with the Estate of Johnny Cash . His intention at the time was to reach younger audiences though an different format, long before musicians began exploring comic books and graphic novels
ALBUM REVIEW: With ‘Rent Money,’ Pokey LaFarge Ponies Up Another Familiar Classic
For two decades and across a dozen or so studio releases, Pokey LaFarge has carved out a niche for himself with his brand of old-timey-meets-newfangled boogie rock gospel blues. While at times a little hokey and hackneyed, the crooner’s modern-old sound has, for years, felt