Standing onstage during the final moments of this year’s Americana Music Festival in Nashville, Chris Shiflett glanced into the wings, cracked a grin and motioned for Elizabeth Cook to join him at the microphone. The two had crossed paths while recording an episode of Shiflett’s biweekly podcast, Walking the Floor, …
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When Bob Lewis packed up his stuff and left Northeastern Pennsylvania for Nashville in 2014, he put a period on his involvement in the punk and hardcore scene that he helped define in the depressed coal-mining region. Bands like Lewis’s Bedford, Jay Morgans’ Soughwutt and Burial Ground offered an outlet …
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While the action that plays out on camera at the CMA Awards is usually geared to reap maximum ratings, there’s more going on at the actual event that never makes it to viewers at home. Amid ambitious performances and some lackluster canned instruments and, oh yeah, the presentation of a …
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Earlier this year, Cassadee Pope unveiled her latest single, “One More Red Light,” a breezy tune that comes just ahead of a new album, set for release in 2019. The singer, who first shot to fame as the Season Three winner of NBC’s The Voice in 2012, will perform that …
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Singer-songwriter Tony Joe White, a prolific tunesmith whose swamp-soaked 1968 pop hit “Polk Salad Annie,” reflected his Louisiana upbringing, died yesterday, Wednesday, October 24th, of natural causes at his home in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. He was 75. White, who had a Top Ten record with “Polk Salad …
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Anderson East goes full soul-singing bandleader in a sultry pair of performances from the latest episode of Austin City Limits. The Alabama native is joined by a hearty array of musicians for “All on My Mind,” including horns, backup singers, and even a four-piece string section. East, sweaty and disheveled, …
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With this year’s Greetings From the Neon Frontier, the Wild Feathers planted their feet on both sides of the country-rock border, mixing amplified guitars and road-dog ruggedness with the soothing salve of their three-part harmonies. It’s fitting, then, that the band will wrap up a busy 2018 by hitting the …
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California’s annual Stagecoach Festival has announced its 2019 lineup, with headliners Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean. The 13th annual fest in Indio, California, will take place April 26th through 28th at the Empire Polo Fields. Stagecoach is one of the few country festivals whose bill consistently mixes mainstream, …
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Kip Moore will follow up his 2017 full-length album Slowheart with a seven-song EP that highlights his less bombastic side. Room to Spare: The Acoustic Sessions showcases Moore at his most stripped-down and writing with frequent collaborators Luke Dick and Dan Couch. Moore co-wrote five songs on the EP, including …
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Margo Price shows the haters and imitators of the world how it’s done in the stylish and trippy new music video for “Leftovers,” her recent Amazon-sponsored collaboration with producer Matt Ross-Spang. Released last month, “Leftovers” is a withering put down to those not-so-flattering folks who don’t have an original idea …
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