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BONUS TRACKS: Tom Waits Tribute, RIP Ronnie Bowman, and More Roots Music News There's a new tribute record to Tom Waits in the works titled Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow. The album is credited to Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, with performances by Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams, and more, and due out May
THE READING ROOM: Charles K. Coffman’s ‘Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy’ Of the making of books about the Grateful Dead there is no end, and rightly so. The band itself noodled around on stage, “truckin” down the “Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion).” Their extended jams explored the permeable boundaries of space and time, using the spaces between the notes to anticipate
BEST OF THE BLUES: March 2026 EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to No Depression’s newest column — Best of the Blues. Each month we’ve asked long-time No Depression contributor, Grant Britt, to round up some of his favorite new blues records for your listening pleasure. March serves up another righteous bundle of blues topped off by