ALBUM REVIEW: Kinky Friedman Makes Elegiac Exit With 'Poet of Motel 6'
Kinky Friedman’s posthumous album opens with the title song, “Poet of Motel 6,” a tribute to a fellow late legend of the Texas troubadour tradition, Billy Joe Shaver. “He’d stay up all night/ He would drink and he would fight/ Ah, but every song he’d write was
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SPOTLIGHT: Olivia Ellen Lloyd "Live With It" [VIDEO]
Editor’s Note: Olivia Ellen Lloyd is No Depression’s Spotlight Artist for March 2025. Learn more about her life and upcoming album, Do It Myself, to be released March 21, in this feature, and keep an eye out for more all month long.
Singer/songwriter Olivia Ellen Lloyd has
ALBUM REVIEW: David Ramirez finds peace and confidence on 'All the Not So Gentle Reminders', his first record in four years
“The Music Man,” the lead single from the new David Ramirez, opens with an ode to the Walkman. Ramirez describes his younger self—innocent, free of existential dread—blindsided by mind-altering wonder when his dad gave him one. “The wheels began to turn / the magnets both took control,” Ramirez
THROUGH THE LENS: Cayamo and Outlaw Country Cruises Provided Roots Music Fans Memorable Experiences on the High Seas
During the past 24 years promoter and organizer Sixthman has presented over 150 themed festivals on the high seas. Those festivals, which push off from its Miami, Florida home port, now number 28 and permit guests (over 300,000 so far) to be captive audiences with their favorite artists, athletes,
ALBUM REVIEW: Kronos Quartet, Mary Kouyoumdjian collaborate on heartbreaking, haunting portrait of surviving conflict
It's easy to become desensitized to the consequences of conflict, or even outright ignore them. But in doing so, we —“we” being society-at-large —lose focus of something important: our shared humanity.
That reminder is at the core of Witness, the brilliant new LP from the legendary
ALBUM REVIEW: Charley Crockett Returns to His Roots, Embraces Vintage Nashville Sound on ‘Lonesome Drifter’
One of the more prolific artists working today, Charley Crockett releases his 15th album, Lonesome Drifter today. Drawing from the artistry of earlier work, particularly last year’s $10 Cowboy, Crockett continues to advance his persona – rambling man, raconteur, philosopher – offering hooky songs about hardscrabble romance and life on the