Editor's Note: William Prince is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for October 2025. Learn more about his new album, Further From the Country, in this deeply personal essay and exclusive, acoustic video.
Back in 2023, William Prince opened his album Stand In The Joy with a palpable ache. The folk-rock ballad “When You Miss Someone” traverses the minutiae and the maximalism wrapped up in longing — from the gas tank running low to the furthest stretches of the galaxy.
Now it's here in your absence
My mind doin' backflips
Reserve tank runnin' on "E"
Intergalactic
Into the static
Searchin' for a memory
When you miss someone
Oh, when you miss someone
Now with his fifth LP Further From The Country, which came out October 17 via Six Shooter Records, “intergalactic” seems both prescient and like the obvious next step for the Peguis First Nations singer-songwriter.
“It’s a whole universe” Prince says of the record and the journey life took him to reach this place. He lists off cities in North America, the UK and Europe, and Asia where he’s played over the last nearly two decades — highlighting being invited perform at the Grand Ole Opry and being able to tour these places with a full band. But he also muses on his personal life — doing a Beyoncé-style wave to show off his wedding ring and proudly pointing to the piano in the first home he’s ever owned in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where his nine-year-old son Wyatt takes lessons.
It's incredible progress for a musician who grew up on a remote reservation, and Price takes care both to remain grounded and look forward. Name-dropping contemporaries and stars in the genres like Jason Isbell, Tyler Childers, Brandi Carlisle, and Sierra Farrell, he begins, “All these artists that are just in this universe that I really want to live in. That's where my compass is pointed. That's where the dashboard on the spaceship is programmed, for that solar system.”
