📰 In this week's Bonus Tracks: an expanded edition of 'From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music' coming May 31, the late Duane Eddy’s invention of twang, and celebrating the 40th bandcamp Friday.

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#newmusicfriday 🤟

Featuring Adeem (the Artist), @emilybarker, Frank Turner, Guy Clark, Jessica Pratt, The Lemon Twigs, Emily Nenni, + many more!

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🌄 'My Black Country,' celebrating Alice Randall’s songwriting through performances by an impressive roster of Black female singers, extends the conversation about the roots and boundaries of this essentially American music.

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👟 On the self-produced 'Tenderhearted Boys,' Will Hoge shows us that less is more, allowing more room for his skillfully poignant lyricism with just enough instrumentation to deliver his message.

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🪲 In his new book, 'Let Me Take You Down' novelist/biographer Jonathan Cott examines The Beatles' double A-sides of 'Penny Lane' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever.'

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⚕️ Our May Spotlight artist is Kaia Kater!

Her new album, 'Strange Medicine,' (out May 17) doesn’t offer solutions but compels the listener a bit closer to some semblance of revelation.

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⚡️ FRESH TRACK: Steven Keene – 'This World Is Your World'

Singer-songwriter StevenKeeneMusic reincarnates Woody Guthrie's most iconic protest original to deliver an anti-authoritarian anthem for a global age with 'This World Is Your World.'

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💐 You've made it through the April showers, now bring on the flowers. Celebrate your entry into May with No Depression's Best of April 2024 playlist, featuring songs by Charley Crockett, Katie Pruitt, Kyshona, Old 97's, + many more.

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🛣️ To round out our Spotlight content for April, watch Humbird's live acoustic performance of 'Fast Food,' a tune about the realities of life as a touring artist.

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📸 Through the Lens: MerleFest recap!

Doc Watson's 'traditional plus' description was particularly fitting this year, as the roots music classification continuously grows and changes.

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🥳 Happy 91st Birthday, Willie!! 🎉

As you spend today (and tomorrow, officially) celebrating Willie Nelson, score your revelry with the star-studded 'Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 (Live at the Hollywood Bowl).'

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JOURNAL EXCERPT: Five Festival Veterans Explain the Magic of MerleFest @NoDepression #music #music festival nodepression.com/journal-excerp…

🛣️ With their debut album 'The Long Way,' Nicolette and the Nobodies serve up some classic 'cry-in-your-beer' tunes with frontwoman Hoang's vocal firepower taking listeners straight back to the heydays of Tammy Wynette.

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#newmusicfriday 💫

Featuring Charley Crockett, Cris Jacobs, Iron & Wine, Kyshona, Lawrence Rothman, Zoe Boekbinder, + many more!

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💐 Joe Pernice faces his mortality with nostalgia and curiosity on the first Pernice Brothers album since 2019, 'Who Will You Believe,' a meditation on memory and friendship.

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🪄 As MerleFest gets rolling this week in NC, we thought we’d share an excerpt of this story from our Spring '22 journal about the festival's history and why it’s so important to the performers who come back year after year.

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💪 With her soulful powerhouse of a voice, Katie Pruitt is doing her damnedest on 'Mantras' to channel kindness and forgiveness, even as she grapples with all the muck she had to crawl through to get to it.

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🚨 MERLEFEST STARTS TOMORROW! 🚨

Click here for No Depression's annual picks for artists you won't want to miss this week + links to the full artist lineup and information about the festival app!!
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🔍 In this edition of Founder's Keepers, ND co-founding editor Grant Alden favors songs that say something true, and finds what he’s looking for in recent releases by Ann Savoy, @ZoeBoekbinder, + Jason Ringenberg & Victoria Liedtke.

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🕰️ The 40+ years of chemistry between Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams is put on full display with 'All This Time,' a 10-song set (with 7 originals by Campbell) released earlier this month.

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