SPOTLIGHT: '90s Country Is Back — What This Tells Us About Music Trends [ESSAY]
![SPOTLIGHT: '90s Country Is Back — What This Tells Us About Music Trends [ESSAY]](/content/images/size/w1200/2025/06/Sister-Sadie-Spotlight-3.png)
Read next
NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at MerleFest: Humbird
No Depression set up the "studio" at the 37th annual MerleFest for a dozen sessions with legends and legends-in-the-making. The festival was founded in 1988 in memory of Doc Watson’s son Merle, and features “traditional plus” music, meaning a broad range of styles from the sweet falsetto
![SPOTLIGHT: Dean Johnson on Finding The Right Producer in Sera Cahoone [ESSAY]](/content/images/size/w720/2025/08/Spotlight-Dean-Johnson-4.png)
SPOTLIGHT: Dean Johnson on Finding The Right Producer in Sera Cahoone [ESSAY]
Editor's Note: Dean Johnson is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for August 2025. Learn more about the Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter and his new album I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, due out August 22 via Saddle Creek all month long.
I’d been going to see
Cha Wa Shares the Stories and Sounds of New Orleans With the World
EDITOR'S NOTE: This feature originally appeared in the Summer 2021 "Voice" issue of No Depression and we're resharing it in honor of New Orleans funk and traditional collective Cha Wa's new LP Rise Up, which is due out August 29 — the 20th