No Depression, Fall 2017: Foremothers

by Kim Ruehl (Editor)

When people ask what roots music is, it’s all too easy to name-check the Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and so on. But beyond them are Sara and Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten, Judy Collins, Big Mama Thornton, and countless other women whose stories have mostly been told through the lens of the men who accompanied or “discovered” them. The fall 2017 issue of No Depression, “Foremothers,” digs into the stories of the women who influenced everything from a fledgling country music industry to the rise of rock and roll. Learn about this music from their perspective and from the women who owe them their careers. Long Short

156 pages, Paperback

Published August 23, 2017

About the author

Kim Ruehl is a writer, editor, and folk music advocate based in Asheville, North Carolina. She has written for Billboard, NPR Music, Seattle Weekly, and various others. She was also editor of No Depression — the roots music journal — for nine years. She was instrumental in bringing the magazine back to print as a high-end, ad-free quarterly journal, and ended her run there in 2017 as editor-in-chief.

Her book, A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School, is due March 23, 2021, from the University of Texas Press.

Reviews

[Adam Carrico · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tons of incredible articles in this set. Favorites: Annie Oakley, Big Mama Thornton, Carter Family, Alice Gerard, Elizabeth Cotten, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Paula Cole, and especially Karen Dalton.