SPOTLIGHT: '90s Country Is Back — What This Tells Us About Music Trends [ESSAY]

It seems like Lucinda Williams needs music as much as the world needs her songs now… still. A beloved lyricist whose sound has too often been oversimplified as “too country for rock and too rock for country,” Williams is one of roots music’s patron saints of storytelling. Now in

Fort Worth-bred singer-songwriter Alex Lambert visited us at The Red Building on Nashville's Music Row during AMERICANAFEST 2025 to share three new songs in their most basic form, just vocals and acoustic guitars. The stripped down arrangement naturally put Lambert's soulful rasp front and center in

EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series, which kicked off last fall, features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the chance to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through the