No Depression: Roots Music and Culture Journalism

Today marks the release of a double LP of The Mavericks' late frontman Raul Malo's final performance. The posthumous new album, BELLA CIAO: RAUL MALO Live In Nashville, was recorded last Father's Day weekend at the 3rd & Lindsley club with his son Dino Malo (drums and percussion), Lazaro Ma...

With their sixth album, Get It Honest, the New Orleans-based octet The Revivalists continue to mine bluesy, classic, and Southern-rock templates. Produced by Rich Costey — who also helmed their last album, 2023’s Pour It Out into the Night — Get It Honest reiterates the band’s eclectic bent and pop attunement, brimming with singalong hooks.

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Austin's Julie Nolen is used to building things herself. Hailing from West Texas, Nolen has cultivated a rough-and-tumble country sound, showcased in her 2016 album Songs of Dignity and Grit. Both of these ingredients are needed to keep OUTlaw Pride going — what started as a talent acquisition and production group for queer artists in Austin has grown into a regional...

Here’s a challenge to all Americana artists: Start recording and releasing sociopolitical songs NOW (if you haven’t already). Write new songs if you’re good at that, but if not, there’s plenty out there that could always use a wider airing. As Margo Price recently told

“I hear it’s warmer than it ought to be / up there at the start of the Mississippi,” Creekbed Carter Hogan sings on “Burn.” “And the evergreens are like candle trees / they’re leaning into the burn.”

The third track on Carter’s new Peasants Revolt starts on a tense Appalachian simmer, but launches into propulsive highway Americana at the midpoint. It’s an open-...