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No Depression has been the foremost journalistic authority on roots music for well over a decade, publishing 75 issues from 1995 to 2008. No Depression ceased publishing magazines in 2008 and took to the web. We have made the contents of those issues accessible online via this extensive archive and also feature a robust community website with blogs, photos, videos, music, news, discussion and more.

Artist: Texas Rubies

Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999

Kelly Kessler / Edith Frost / Texas Rubies / Jane Baxter Miller / Kelly Hogan / Jon Langford / Heather McAdams / Anastasia Davies / Anna Fermin / Neil Pollack – Honky Tonk Living Room – The Hideout (Tucson, AZ)

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Kelly Kessler and Jane Baxter Miller began their country career as the Texas Rubies in 1989 in a setting that couldn’t have been more urban: Chicago subway stations. Their favorite venues, though, were living rooms, and the biggest place that still felt like a living room to them was Club Lower Links, where the pair [...]

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No Depression's 2012 South by Southwest Showcase Lineup
Each year, the music industry and music fans gather in Austin, Tex., to celebrate music itself. Granted there's plenty of schmoozing and business happening, too, but for one short week live music is king across Austin - from clubs on 6th Street to parking lots in South Austin, and beyond. Once again, we'll be joining the fray in 2012 with a No Depr […]
I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets - Rae Spoon
The broken-hearted catch still haunts the voice, sweetly sad amongst the relentless rhythm of programmed drum beats and analog synths. With I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets, Rae Spoon's most electronic adventure to date, the former folk artist moves ever deeper into the world of electronica and dance beats. But one foot remains firmly planted in co […]
CD Review - Missy Werner - Three Kinds of Lonesome
By W.J. Hillock Missy Werner/Three Kinds of Lonesome (Released 2011) Just about every aspect of this CD is first class. Missy has put together a project that is musically, artistically, visually and tastefully appealing. A lot of effort was put into making this a quality release. The most important decision Missy made was bringing Jon Weisberger on board a […]
Singer-Songwriters of the Calgary Roots Scene Part 1: Tom Phillips
*This series will feature interviews with members of the Calgary and area roots music scene. Calgary is one of the main cities in Alberta, a province in western Canada. Interviews were conducted as part of the research for my dissertation, Roots Music in Calgary, Alberta, between 1999-2009. Someday, when I get it together, I'll turn it into a book, b […]
Elvis and Eddie Murphy: The Sacred and The Shameful
By Matt Shedd Originally published at A Missing America In 1977 that black cloud famously gathered over Memphis when the world was scandalized to discovered the king of rock and roll to be corpse, collapsed in his vomit. America had not… […]
Freight Train Boogie Show #151 with Darrell Scott, Jackstraw, Amelia White, Folk Uke & Tom Gillam
FTB podcast #151 features the new album by DARRELL SCOTT entitled Long Ride Home. Also new music from JACKSTRAW, AMELIA WHITE and CORNFLOWER BLUE. Here's the… […]