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Mary Chapin Carpenter

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The SteelDrivers

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Outrun

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Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters

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Good Morning Sunshine

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Charley Crockett

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Lonesome Drifter

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Seldom Scene

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Remains to be Scene

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Jason Boland & The Stragglers

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The Last Kings of Babylon

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Jaime Wyatt is a fantastic country singer that has just released her third album, "Feel Good," and is currently on her first headlining tour. This trek has taken her to places and venues where she's never played before and has been a heartening success.
Rodney Crowell's career is littered with butterfly-effect decisions that, in retrospect, represent life-altering milestones along the singer/songwriter's star-crossed path. If the Houston native hadn't moved to Nashville at age 22, he wouldn't have been discovered by Jerry Reed...
Steve Earle pays tribute to one of his mentors and heroes, Jerry Jeff Walker, on "Jerry Jeff," which follows his "GUY" tribute to Guy Clark and "TOWNES" tribute to Townes Van Zandt. Earle has called these projects a necessary form of therapy, as each of these great artists have passed on.
The title track to James McMurtry's "The Horses and the Hounds" plays out like one of those great running songs, namely Merle Haggard's "The Fugitive." "Lord I've been running for so long I just can't find a way back home," McMurtry sings, in that enjoyable deadpan vocal tone of his. When the Haggard song is mentioned, though, McMurtry responds, "I don't really remember.
Back before the world retreated into makeshift fallout shelters for a year of Netflix binging, board games and what Warren Zevon referred to as splendid isolation, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Shannon McNally was invited to play a Music City benefit concert.
By their own admission Track45 hails from a town that is "big enough for a WalMart and a Waffle House, but not a Target or a Starbucks." Ironically, Meridian, Miss. (population (41,148) is the birthplace of the father of country music, Jimmy Rodgers. The harmony-driven sibling trio of Track45 includes Ben Johnson and his infectiously bubbly sisters Jenna and KK.

Concert Reviews

The Head and the Heart bright the light

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The Head and the Heart entitled their just-released record, "Aperture." When it comes to a camera lens, that is about the amount of light let in. Regarding the introspective record, the band has said the title stems from the light and dark of life. It may sound dreary, but not when it comes ...

"Long, long way to go" for Trousdale? Not so sure.

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Good things come in threes – at least when considering the LA-based band Trousdale. The indie act - Quinn D'Andrea, Georgia Greene and Lauren Jones – met in college at USC and with their sophomore disc, "Growing Pains," out on the appropriately titled The Independent Co. ...

Nenni joins the traditional country renaissance

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For those who have for years lamented the perceived decline of country music away from its traditional roots, stay hopeful. It's not hard when you have an artist like Zach Top breaking big and an even more traditional singer, Emily Nenni, showing that she should be part of the conversation. ...

Parker still has something to say

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Graham Parker lamented, in his sort of joking , definitely finger pointing style, that he used to have a crowd of 18 year olds at his concerts. That was a generation ago, but give Parker credit – those 18 year olds of decades ago have stuck with the singer filling the 275-seat club as Parker ...

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