PRODUCTION – 24 June 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Ochsenhausen: Micro and miniature donkeys stand in a paddock. The small animals originally come from the USA and are becoming increasingly popular in this country too. Photo: Stefan Puchner/dpa (Photo by Stefan Puchner/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Dolly Parton has plenty of songs about animals in her expansive catalog. Parton has also about sparrows (“Little Sparrow”), eagles (“Eagle When She Flies”), farm animals (“My Tennessee Mountain Home”), and dogs (the heartbreaking “Cracker Jack”). One of her signature numbers is “Love Is Like a Butterfly.” In fact, the winged insect has been a […]
When The Country Grieves, Springsteen’s There For Us Again In the aftermath of 9/11, Bruce Springsteen was walking in his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey when a fan yelled out, “Bruce, we need you.” The comment kick-started Springsteen into writing songs for The Rising which summed up the country’s collective grief and provided hope when […]
Reading Alice Gerrard’s inviting and candid Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music (North Carolina, December 2, 2025) is much like sitting down with her in her front room or on her porch and listening to her regale us with tales of her relationships ( the musicians she&
“We’re investing in the musicians to keep sharing their music, to keep sharing their poetry for the people they play for, and then those people are going to look them up, and then those people are going to find others, and our work.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to No Depression’s newest column — Best of the Blues. Each month we’ve asked long-time No Depression contributor, Grant Britt, to round up some of his favorite new blues records for your listening pleasure.
It seems like Lucinda Williams needs music as much as the world needs her songs now… still. A beloved lyricist whose sound has too often been oversimplified as “too country for rock and too rock for country,” Williams is one of roots music’s patron saints