THROUGH THE LENS: Mountain Stage Celebrates 42 Years of Presenting Roots Music

If you're reading this, you have a sense of how deeply important No Depression is to independent roots music. Maybe you've been reading since the glossy magazine days of the 1990s (I have a vivid memory of picking up this issue with Lucinda Williams on the

Carole King’s A Natural Woman (2012) remains one of the best music memoirs ever published. While many artists fill page after page with bawdy and salacious episodes on the road, in the motel room, on stage, and in the studio, King instead offers a measured and candid look back