My pal Todd Snider is attempting to right some wrongs in the world such as the simple fact that no one has ever named an album “Peace Queer” before.
Seriously folks, it’ll be a good one. It’s going to have one of my favorite Kimbrough numbers (”Cape Henry”) on it along with a few protest […]
My mailbox is often stuffed with artists whose names don’t exactly roll off the tongue. Almost tripping over one another, the litany of unknowns continues to disappoint. Either they don’t know the style of music we cover here or the music simply doesn’t inspire me to say anything positive.
Lee Penn Sky of Boise […]
Owen Temple is a Texan songwriter and like his predecessors he has a healthy respect for the past to match an independent streak that defines his home state. That duality lead Temple to release his latest record, Two Thousand Miles with an unconventional approach.
Temple eschewed the normal process of releasing an album by getting […]
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention one of our correspondents-in-the-field and pals, Steve Hassenplug’s great YouTube videos. He’s always sent me great videos and with the eruption of YouTube I don’t have to wait on a DVD or tape.
Sparky, as some of us know him, is well-known to many musicians and fans alike. […]
While I am an admitted reader of No Depression and I generally subscribe to the same musical tastes to which they cater, I’m far from an apologist for the popular magazine. I often find the writers looking down their noses at most of the readers–an unforgivable sin for an author.
But this Idolator post seems […]
WFUV has a streaming interview with Todd Snider in which the barefooted artist describes his efforts on his upcoming yet-to-be-titled album.
The best news to me is that Snider will cover the classic Robert Earl Keen song “Corpus Christi Bay.” The song laments the life of a rigger and his brother caught in the Corpus […]
On the day of the Iowa Caucus I thought some of you might appreciate this tongue-in-cheek song my buddy Jason Walsmith of The Nadas along with Des Moines Register music writer Kyle Munson wrote to poke a little fun at the process.
And Jason is registered to vote and will be caucusing…
Everyone make sure you make […]
Inspired, he tells me, by his stint at Silent Night 2005, New York City-based Authentic artist Benjamin Wagner just released his own charity compilation CD A Family Holiday.
Ben executive produced the fourteen-track album of NYC singer/songwriters and bands, and pulled everyone together for a big release party last Wednesday night. The CD kicks of with […]
To refer to No Depression as a “good little music magazine” is like calling Superman a gifted athlete. There’s little doubt that No Depression is the seminal source of alt-country criticism and news. I know I take many cues from Peter and Grant.
Grant has a blog which is great to see. I’d […]
Scant recorded material from Woody Guthrie exists so it comes as quite a surprise that a recording of a live concert from the late 1940s turned up. Turns out that a college student grabbed a bootleg, preserving for generations an American icon’s live work.
Paul Braverman, a student at Rutgers, managed to capture the recording […]
