Heartland - Spring 2017

  The Spring 2017 issue of No Depression, “Heartland,” explores the stories and music that thumps, picks, and breathes between the coasts. While mainstream music critics focus on cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville to learn about rising stars and buzzworthy music, artists in cities like Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Omaha, and Iowa City are making some of the purest, most honest roots music around. What’s more, artists from the coasts are increasingly touring the heartland — and some are even moving there — to find inspiration in the region’s big skies, honest people, and rich musical legacies. Long Features Dolly Parton, working class feminist  Bob Dylan’s Midwest roots  Heartland rock via John Mellencamp, Melissa Etheridge, Kansas, and more  The enduring legacy of Hee Haw  The unknown story of Indiana’s Gennett Records  Native American hip-hop and Standing Rock  Chicago and Austin’s musical exchange Short Features The Jayhawks Conor Oberst  Over the R