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🎶 No Depression's Best of July 2026 PlaylistBetween the holiday at the beginning of the month and summer vacations hitti...
08/11/2026

🎶 No Depression's Best of July 2026 Playlist

Between the holiday at the beginning of the month and summer vacations hitting by the end, July can sometimes be a funny time for new music releases. Although last month was a bit slower than previous months (we're still reeling from May's onslaught!...

via Americana UK | Read more:
https://nodepression.org/no-depressions-best-of-july-2026-playlist/

🎶 BEST OF BLUES: July 2026July was a banner month for blues releases with the release of a massive box set from blues gr...
08/10/2026

🎶 BEST OF BLUES: July 2026

July was a banner month for blues releases with the release of a massive box set from blues grand dame and legend Ma Rainey, featuring her entire recordings at Paramount Records between 1923-1928. Additionally, Chris O'Leary provides some hard-core r...

via American Blues Scene | Read more:
https://nodepression.org/best-of-blues-july-2026/

🎶 15 Years Ago Today, We Said Goodbye to Johnny Cash’s Right-Hand Man and Dear Friend Who Helped Shape His Signature Sou...
08/10/2026

🎶 15 Years Ago Today, We Said Goodbye to Johnny Cash’s Right-Hand Man and Dear Friend Who Helped Shape His Signature Sound

American musician and bassist, Marshall Grant smiling while recording songs for Johnny Cash's The Last Gunfighter Ballad album at Sound Spectrum Recording, Inc., also known as the House of Cash Studios in Nashville, Tennessee 1976. Photo is part of t...

via Unknown Source | Read more:
https://americansongwriter.com/15-years-ago-today-we-said-goodbye-to-johnny-cashs-right-hand-man-and-dear-friend-who-helped-shape-his-signature-sound/

🎶 THE READING ROOM: Timothy D. Tyson and Mary D. Williams’ ‘Mahalia Jackson, Moving on Up a Little Higher: The Story of ...
08/09/2026

🎶 THE READING ROOM: Timothy D. Tyson and Mary D. Williams’ ‘Mahalia Jackson, Moving on Up a Little Higher: The Story of an American Civil Rights Pioneer’

Before Martin Luther King, Jr., rose to deliver his now-iconic speech at the end of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, Mahalia Jackson riveted the quarter million attendees congregated on the Washington Mall with her sti...

via Glide Magazine | Read more:
https://nodepression.org/the-reading-room-timothy-d-tyson-and-mary-d-williams-mahalia-jackson-moving-on-up-a-little-higher-the-story-of-an-american-civil-rights-pioneer/

🎶 Glen Hansard Taught Me to Take, But Always Give BackEDITOR'S NOTE: As the roots music community was stunned to hear of...
08/08/2026

🎶 Glen Hansard Taught Me to Take, But Always Give Back

EDITOR'S NOTE: As the roots music community was stunned to hear of the untimely passing of singer-songwriter and folk-rock bandleader Glen Hansard, many took to social media to share their stories and songs. Milwaukee-based musician Trapper Schoepp, ...

via Saving Country Music | Read more:
https://nodepression.org/glen-hansard-taught-me-to-take-but-always-give-back/

🎶 ALBUM REVIEW: Margaret Glaspy Puts Fraught Relationships Under a Microscope on 'I Am Both'Interpersonal friction reach...
08/07/2026

🎶 ALBUM REVIEW: Margaret Glaspy Puts Fraught Relationships Under a Microscope on 'I Am Both'

Interpersonal friction reaches alarming levels on I Am Both, the riveting fourth album from Margaret Glaspy. Hurt feelings, poor communication, and selfish urges inspire a memorable collection of vignettes that capture common relationship ills with u...

via Americana UK | Read more:
https://nodepression.org/album-review-margaret-glaspy-puts-fraught-relationships-under-a-microscope-on-i-am-both/

08/07/2026

🎶 BONUS TRACKS: RIP Glen Hansard and Other Roots Music News

In journalism’s heyday, new hires at a newspaper used to have to get their start on the obit beat. Sometimes I can tap into that spirt of detachment and dedication to the craft, especially when the artists have lived long, storied lives, with dozens ...

via The Bluegrass Situation | Read more:
https://nodepression.org/bonus-tracks-rip-glen-hansard-and-other-roots-music-news/

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