Voices: Summer 2021

The Summer 2021 issue will begin shipping on April 28. Digital to be delivered via email on May 11. After themed issues on instruments, gear, songwriting, and other tools, No Depression is dedicating an entire issue to the human voice. Summer 2021 serves as quite the vocal issue, literally and figuratively. Stories take a deeper look at singing range, technicalities, and timbre, but also highlight individuals whose voices carry words of change, protest, and dissent throughout roots music. Included in this issue: Singers on Singing - Hilary Saunders Finding Their Voices: Songs and circumstances can alter how musicians sing - Hilary Saunders Call of the Cowboy: A history of yodeling in roots music - Liz Tracy Unearthed Sounds: Inside the Memphis sacred-soul revival - Alan Richard More than Words: Sign language interpreters connect deaf audiences to the music they love - Stacy Chandler A Warrior for My Voice - Chris Pierce 'Ma' to the Max: Behind the scene of Ma Rainey's Black Bot