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No Depression 
Issue 74 of No Depression magazine (March/April 2008)Categories Music magazines Frequency bi-monthly First issue September 1995 Final issue June 2008 Country 
United StatesLanguage English Website nodepression.com No Depression was a bi-monthly magazine that covered a broad range of roots music, including alternative country and Americana.
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History
No Depression was launched in September 1995 (as a quarterly) by co-editors/co-founders Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock. The magazine was named for the Carter Family song "No Depression in Heaven", the 1990 album No Depression by the band Uncle Tupelo, and an early AOL online discussion group on alternative country called The No Depression Folder. Kyla Fairchild, who handled distribution and then advertising in the first couple of years, became a co-publisher with Alden and Blackstock in 1998. Over the course of thirteen years, No Depression gradually grew into one of the nation's most prominent and broad-ranging bimonthly music publications until it ceased print operations in June 2008. Along the way, No Depression received Utne Reader Independent Press Awards for Arts & Literature coverage, and was cited as one of the nation's Top 20 magazines of any kind in 2004 by the Chicago Tribune.
Other ventures during the company's print history included a No Depression Tour (featuring Whiskeytown, the Old 97's, Hazeldine, and the Picketts) in 1997; two best-of anthologies published by Dowling Press (1998) and University of Texas Press (2005); and the No Depression Radio Show, which aired on dozens of stations across the country in 2002 and 2003.
The publishers announced in February 2008 that the May–June 2008 issue would be its last.[1] Buddy Miller was featured on the cover of the final issue, with No Depression declaring him Artist of the Decade.
No Depression launched a community website (NoDepression.com) on the Ning platform in February 2009. The site is a growing community of bloggers, videographers, photographers, artists, labels, DJs, venues, and fans around the world. Site content comes from throughout the community which attracts more than 110,000 visits (85,000 unique) per month. An online archive of No Depression's 75 print issues can be found at Archive.NoDepression.com.
Co-editors Alden and Blackstock published three No Depression "bookazines" with University of Texas Press; the debut edition was released fall 2008, the second edition March 2009, and the last September 2009.
No Depression co-founders Alden and Blackstock sold their ownership stakes to Fairchild in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Fairchild is the sole owner of the NoDepression.com community website.
The first annual No Depression music festival took place at Marymoore Park, just outside Seattle on July 11, 2009 and featured Gillian Welch, Iron and Wine, Patterson Hood and the Screwtopians, Jesse Sykes, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Zee Avi, and Seattle roots music all-stars.
History of cover features
No Depression senior editors Barry Mazor (left) and David Cantwell; seated between them is Holly George-Warren, author of Public Cowboy No. 1, a biography of Gene Autry.
- 1995: #1: Son Volt (Fall)
- 1996: #2: Blue Mountain (Winter), #3: Steve Earle (Spring), #4: Honey Wilds (Summer), #5: Wilco (Sept-Oct), #6: Jason & the Scorchers (Nov-Dec)
- 1997: #7: Waco Brothers (Jan-Feb), #8: Bad Livers (March–April), #9: Bottle Rockets (May–June), #10: Whiskeytown (July-Aug), #11: Robbie Fulks (Sept-Oct), #12: Ricky Skaggs (Nov-Dec)
- 1998: #13: Victoria Williams & Mark Olson (Jan-Feb), #14: Alejandro Escovedo (March–April), #15: Ralph Stanley (May–June), #16: Lucinda Williams (July-Aug), #17: Emmylou Harris (Sept-Oct), #18: Golden Smog (Nov-Dec)
- 1999: #19: Don Williams (Jan-Feb), #20: Steve Earle & Del McCoury (March–April), #21: Old 97s (May–June), #22: Gram Parsons (July-Aug), #23: Buddy & Julie Miller (Sept-Oct), #24: Dolly Parton (Nov-Dec)
- 2000: #25: 5th Anniversary Issue (Jan-Feb), #26: Jimmie Dale Gilmore (March–April), #27: Jayhawks (May–June), #28: Loretta Lynn (July-Aug), #29: Allison Moorer (Sept-Oct), #30: Merle Haggard (Nov-Dec)
- 2001: #31: Rodney Crowell (Jan-Feb), #32: Billy Joe Shaver (March–April), #33: Lucinda Williams (May–June), #34: Patty Loveless (July-Aug), #35: Gillian Welch (Sept-Oct), #36: Jay Farrar (Nov-Dec)
- 2002: #37: Kasey Chambers (Jan-Feb), #38: Isaac Freeman (March–April), #39: The Flatlanders (May–June), #40: Kelly Willis (July-Aug), #41: Guy Clark (Sept-Oct), #42: Johnny Cash (Nov-Dec)
- 2003: #43: Alison Krauss (Jan-Feb), #44: Rosanne Cash (March–April), #45: Little Miss Cornshucks (May–June), #46: Drive-By Truckers (July-Aug), #47: Lyle Lovett (Sept-Oct), #48: Bottle Rockets (Nov-Dec)
- 2004: #49: T Bone Burnett (Jan-Feb), #50: Patty Griffin (March–April), #51: Loretta Lynn (May–June), #52: Dave Alvin (July-Aug.), #53: Willie Nelson (Sept-Oct), #54: Iris DeMent (Nov-Dec)
- 2005: #55: Mary Gauthier (Jan-Feb), #56: Vic Chesnutt (March–April), #57: John Prine (May–June),
- 58: Lizz Wright (July-Aug), #59: Nickel Creek (Sept-Oct), #60: New Orleans (Nov-Dec)
- 2006: #61: Joe Henry (Jan-Feb), #62: Kris Kristofferson (March–April), #63: Alejandro Escovedo & Jon Dee Graham (May–June), #64: Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello (July-Aug), #65: Old Crow Medicine Show (Sept-Oct), #66: Solomon Burke (Nov-Dec)
- 2007: #67: Lucinda Williams (Jan-Feb), #68: The Shins (Mar-Apr), #69: Miranda Lambert (May–June), #70: Porter Wagoner (July-Aug), #71: Josh Ritter (Sept-Oct), #72: John Fogerty (Nov-Dec)
- 2008: #73: Shelby Lynne (Jan-Feb), #74: String bands special (March–April), #75: Buddy Miller (May–June)
Footnotes
References
- the Stranger, "A Decade of DIY – 'No Depression' Celebrates American Music", by Brian Barr, Sep 22 – Sep 28, 2005
External links
Categories:- American music magazines
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