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We reported last month that Guy Fieri suffered a “freak accident.” “[I] slipped down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold,” said the Food Network star. “So, you know, it extended me out. I looked like I was probably doing the splits, but when my right […]

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Jelly Roll dropped a significant number of pounds ahead of his match at WWE’s SummerSlam, where he lost to Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Kid Rock’s Congressional testimony about unfair ticketing practices was personal and persuasive. Continue reading…

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.”

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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.

Anybody who thinks that the blues is

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

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