If you're reading this, you have a sense of how deeply important No Depression is to independent roots music. Maybe you've been reading since the glossy magazine days of the 1990s (I have a vivid memory of picking up this issue with Lucinda Williams on the cover when I was in high school – I had no idea who she or anyone else in there was; I just knew they were somehow linked to artists I loved like Cowboy Mouth, The Refreshments, and Cross-Canadian Ragweed.) The publication, in all its incarnations, is an archive of the wild creativity and diversity that is somehow encompassed under American music, a history of music that will never be recognized by the mainstream. That's why it's so important, especially now, to feature LGBTQIA+ artists here.
This week, I wanted to highlight 10 albums covered by other writers for the publication (as well as a quick list of the queer artists I wrote up, and albums I mentioned in previous installments of this column.) If you missed them the first time around, now is the time to support these fiercely independent artists.
