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BONUS TRACKS: Texas Flood Relief Efforts and More Roots Music News Two music industry nonprofits — Bluegrass Ambassadors and ReString Appalachia — are teaming up to raise funds to provide musical instruments to individuals affected by the Central Texas floods in earl...

BONUS TRACKS: Texas Flood Relief Efforts and More Roots Music News

FOUNDERS KEEPERS: A tale of three cities: Fresh sounds from Nashville, Austin and the NC Triangle It wasn’t intentional, but once I settled on these six records for this month’s Founders’ Keepers, I realized they consist of two artists from Austin, two from Nashville, and two from the North Caroli...

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THROUGH THE LENS: The Blues Come Alive — Briggs Farm Blues & Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festivals Roots Music and Stories

📸 THROUGH THE LENS: The Blues Come Alive — Briggs Farm Blues Festival & Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival

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ALBUM REVIEW: Tyler Childers Doubles Down on Grit, Wit, and Heart On ‘Snipe Hunter’ For an artist to appeal to masses and remain true to themselves, to nurture their weirdness and still find a sizable audience that embraces it, is a rarity in country music. Call it the Sturgill Simps...

"Tyler Childers latest, Snipe Hunter, finds Rick Rubin at the helm, and true to the legendary producer’s touch, Childers has never sounded so sure of himself as he reflects on his own road to success."

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SPOTLIGHT: 'Exactly Where You're Meant To Be' [ESSAY] Editor's Note: Tami Neilson is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for July 2025. To kick off her Spotlight, she performed an exclusive, acoustic version of her song "Salvation Mountain" from her new alb...

Tami Neilson is No Depression's Spotlight Artist for July 2025. In this essay, she takes readers along with her during a stretch of her US tour in June.

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THROUGH THE LENS: This Land Is Our Land - Woody Guthrie & Blue Ox Music Festivals Roots Music and Stories

THROUGH THE LENS: This Land Is Our Land - Woody Guthrie & Blue Ox Music Festivals

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REVIEW: Cam's new album All Things Light transcends genre and time -- a love letter to humanity's capacity for the divine...and the need to stay down to earth. Read my review on @NoDepression.bsky.social!

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Hitchhiking the Appalachian Trail: An Essay by Ketch Secor EDITOR'S NOTE: Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor wrote this vivid essay for the Spring 2018 "Appalachia" issue of No Depression and we're resharing it in honor of his debut solo album Story ...

Hitchhiking the Appalachian Trail: An Essay by Ketch Secor
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BONUS TRACKS: BJ Barham for NC City Commissioner, IBMA Nominations, Jeff Tweedy's Triple-LP, and More Continuing on from last week's trend of roots musicians running for office, BJ Barham of North Carolina roots-rock band American Aquarium announced via the band's Instagram today that he's running for...

New music and latest roots music news!

🎶 BJ Barham for NC City Commissioner, IBMA Nominations, Jeff Tweedy's Triple-LP, and More

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ALBUM REVIEW: On 'Homegrown' Cole Quest and the City Pickers Deftly Move the Legacy of Woody Guthrie Along in All the Right Ways Homegrown, the fourth album from the New York City-based Cole Quest and the City Pickers, opens with the voice of Pete Seeger reading the words of Woody Guthrie: “There’s a feeling in music, and it ca...

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BONUS TRACKS: "Ditch" 4 Tennessee Governor, Spotify Drama, and More New Roots Music News Adam "Ditch" Kurtz may not be a household name...yet. But discerning roots music fans will have heard his sweet, dulcet pedal steel tones alongside artists including Joshua Ray Walker, JP Harris, and ...

🎶 New & upcoming music and more of the latest roots music news!

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ALBUM REVIEW: It Shows that Brent Cobb ‘Ain’t Rocked In A While.’ Thank Goodness, He’s Doing It Anyway. From the meaty rhythms of Black Sabbath, the belligerent hooks of AC/DC and sludgy riffs of Metallica then-thirteen-year-old Brent Cobb earned an unorthodox education, one that would enlighten his mus...

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ALBUM REVIEW: It Shows that Brent Cobb ‘Ain’t Rocked In A While.’ Thank Goodness, He’s Doing It Anyway.

ALBUM REVIEW: 'A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco,' Stellar Array of Artists Pay Tribute to Clifton Chenier It's about time. Clifton Chenier finally got the biggest birthday gift of his life. For what would have been his 100th birthday, Louisiana based independent label Valcour Records, who specialize in bo...

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THROUGH THE LENS: Jackalope Jamboree 2025 Added Roots Music to Oregon’s Diverse & Rich Cultural Histories Roots Music and Stories

THROUGH THE LENS: Jackalope Jamboree 2025 Added Roots Music to Oregon’s Diverse & Rich Cultural Histories

Billy Allen + The Pollies Are A Quintessential Muscle Shoals Band After progressing through regional tryouts in Huntsville, Alabama, waiting in line in Greensboro, North Carolina to sing for Simon Cowell, Britney Spears, L.A. Reid, and Demi Lovato, North Carolina, a...

Billy Allen + The Pollies Are A Quintessential Muscle Shoals Band

No Depression's Best of June 2025 Roots Music and Stories

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The Best Albums of 2025 So Far This year has alternately flow and dragged by. But roots artists have been steadily releasing top-notch music all year long. As we arrive at its midpoint, No Depression writers and editors reflect on ...

This year has alternately flow and dragged by. But roots artists have been steadily releasing top-notch music all year long. As we arrive at its midpoint, No Depression writers and editors reflect on their favorite albums of the year, so far.

FRESH TRACK: Willi Carlisle - "Beeswing" Within his heart and his music, folksinger Willi Carlisle holds tight the conviction that love is bigger than hate and no one is expendable. Deemed by Paste as, "One of country music’s most important ...

FRESH TRACK: Willi Carlisle - "Beeswing"
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FOUNDERS KEEPERS: Sticking to the Music of James McMurtry and Mark Rubin Roots Music and Stories

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FOUNDERS KEEPERS: Sticking to the Music of James McMurtry and Mark Rubin

SPOTLIGHT: '90s Country Is Back — What This Tells Us About Music Trends Roots Music and Stories

SPOTLIGHT: '90s Country Is Back — What This Tells Us About Music Trends

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Thanks to @nodepression.bsky.social for alerting me to the music of #DKHarrrell. This track is included in the playlist for Wednesday's edition of @atgdsine.bsky.social on www.sinefm.com

ALBUM REVIEW: 'A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco,' Stellar Array of Artists Pay Tribute to Clifton Chenier It's about time. Clifton Chenier finally got the biggest birthday gift of his life. For what would have been his 100th birthday, Louisiana based independent label Valcour Records, who specialize in bo...

ALBUM REVIEW: 'A Tribute To The King Of Zydeco,' Stellar Array of Artists Pay Tribute to Clifton Chenier

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BONUS TRACKS: Dolly Parton's Upcoming Las Vegas Residency and Unearthed Led Zeppelin Cover, Plus More Roots Music News The one-and-only Dolly Parton announced a series of Las Vegas concerts this week — her first residency of the sort in the Neon City in more than three decades. The 79-year-old country icon doesn't tou...

🎶 New and upcoming releases plus our roundup of this week's roots music news and media!

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ALBUM REVIEW: Buck Owens Posthumous Live 3-CD Set is Trove of Owens’ Highs and Lows The 3-CD set 'Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974' provides a glimpse into the popularity of Buck Owens and His Buckaroos during these years, and it offers an overview of ...

ALBUM REVIEW: Buck Owens Posthumous Live 3-CD Set is Trove of Owens’ Highs and Lows

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ALBUM REVIEW: Willi Carlisle’s Ardently Queer, Class-Conscious Take on Country-Folk Traditionalism Gets Wilder and Friskier on 'Winged Victory' “I wanted my version to sound like a drag queen in a horny vaudeville act. I think we nailed it.” That’s what Willi Carlisle writes about his cover of “Crying These Cocksucking Tears,” a tune by Patr...

ALBUM REVIEW: Willi Carlisle’s Ardently Queer, Class-Conscious Take on Country-Folk Traditionalism Gets Wilder and Friskier on 'Winged Victory' @willicarlisle.bsky.social

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NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at MerleFest: The Fretliners No Depression set up the "studio" at the 37th annual MerleFest for a dozen sessions with legends and legends-in-the-making. The festival was founded in 1988 in memory of Doc Watson’s son Merle, and fe...

🎥 No Depression Sessions at Merlefest!

The Fretliners brought their CO roots music to MerleFest sharing three songs from their self-titled album! Check out the full session now.

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THROUGH THE LENS: Nelsonville Music Festival 2025 Digs Roots Music in Southeast Ohio Roots Music and Stories

📸 THROUGH THE LENS: Nelsonville Music Festival 2025 Digs Roots Music in Southeast Ohio

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