Meredith Lawrence

Jan 10, 2025 | nodepression.com | Meredith Lawrence

This week’s Bonus Tracks begins with a reflection on an evening last summer with Peter Yarrow, who died this week on Jan. 7, at the age of 86. Yarrow was best-known as part of Peter, Paul and Mary, one of the defining folk music groups of Greenwich Village’s 1960s folk revival. Though Mary Travers died in 2009, he and Noel Paul Stookey (“Paul”) still performed together a few times a year.

Nov 18, 2024 | nodepression.com | Meredith Lawrence

EDITOR’S NOTE: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms are No Depression’s Spotlight artists for Nov. 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Gold in Your Pocket (released Nov.15 on Free Dirt Records), in this interview, and look for more all month long. To be chained by desire is to be unable to be free, because you’re always looking for something more.

Nov 15, 2024 | nodepression.com | Meredith Lawrence

Last Friday evening in Saint Anne’s Church on opening night of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, Latin American ensemble Guachinangos played their energetic blend of Mexican son jarocho and Colombian cumbia music to an audience seemingly unable to sit down or stay still. Packed into pew rows and spilling into the aisles, listeners swayed and clapped along as couples twirled together in front of the stage. The room felt warm with joy.

Nov 4, 2024 | daily.bandcamp.com | Meredith Lawrence

ALBUM OF THE DAY Haley Heynderickx, “Seed of a Seed” By Meredith Lawrence · November 04, 2024 ​ ​ Haley Heynderickx Portland, Oregon follow ✓ following unfollow ... Seed of a Seed Haley Heynderickx . / pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track .

Nov 1, 2024 | nodepression.com | Meredith Lawrence

“What do you want me to do / To do for you, to see you through?” asks Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh on “Box of Rain,” a rare vocal appearance in the beloved folkie band’s Jerry Garcia-heavy canon. “A box of rain will ease the pain / And love will see you through,” Lesh continues. Though he wrote the song in response to his father’s death, Lesh easily could have been doling out comfort to the scores of mourners who’ve remembered him in the week since his death.