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SPOTLIGHT: Music Is A Service Industry [ESSAY]

Editor’s Note: Olivia Ellen Lloyd is No Depression’s Spotlight Artist for March 2025. Learn more about her life and new album, Do It Myself, released March 21, in this feature, and this video, and keep an eye out for more all month long.

It is 8:47 AM. I am trying to get through my precious morning routine without looking at my phone. Grinding beans for coffee, feeding my dog, writing my morning reflections. As I am writing down a list of things I am grateful for, hopeful for, looking forward to – in a world that feels increasingly bleak and bereft of blessings – my phone buzzes twice. I see the skull emoji and I know that somebody’s got good news.

Lizzie No: I was nominated for an AMA-UK Award for Heartbreak Store!

Straight from The Source: Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey and American Roots Music Continue to Go Hand In Hand

In Lynchburg, Tennessee, about an hour outside Nashville, the historic Jack Daniel’s Distillery welcomes around 300,000 people annually. Visitors travel from around the globe to learn how Tennessee whiskey is made at America’s oldest registered distillery — which is also one of the largest in the world — and

No Depression’s Best of April 2025 Playlist

No Depression's Best of April 2025 starts off with April Spotlight artist Valerie June's directive, plea, and call to action "Joy, Joy!" The song, which kicks off her fourth studio LP, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, serves as a guiding light for so much these

SPOTLIGHT: The Gift of Art as a Service [ESSAY]

Editor’s Note: Valerie June is No Depression’s Spotlight Artist for April 2025. Learn more about her life and new album, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, which was released April 11, in this feature. I just got off the phone with Fiona Prine. I couldn’t have said it better.

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