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Duo Paper Wings Honor the Past While Making Something Modern

Duo Paper Wings Honor the Past While Making Something Modern

On sophomore album Clementine, Paper Wings blends two distinct voices and impeccable skills as instrumentalists to create a modern, unified vision built on Appalachian traditions. The duo features old-time music mainstay and California native Emily Mann and Wilhelmina Frankzerda, an Oregon-born, Nashville-based fiddling champion and a current member of the

Thirty Years Later, ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume 2’ Stands as a Musical Milestone

Thirty Years Later, ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume 2’ Stands as a Musical Milestone

On May 1, 1989, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band updated its ode to country music’s early influencers, 1972’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with an addendum co-starring some of the best available singer-songwriters and neo-traditionalists. Thirty years later, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume 2 sounds ahead of

David Grier Enlists Talented Friends to Explore ‘Ways of the World’

David Grier Enlists Talented Friends to Explore ‘Ways of the World’

Talented musicians have surrounded David Grier since childhood. His father, Lamar, performed with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in the 1960s, and Roland White taught some of Grier’s earliest guitar lessons. His lengthy run as an influential flatpicking guitarist has kept the circle of like-minded family and friends

SPOTLIGHT: Adia Victoria Blends Poetry and Melody for a Sound All Her Own

SPOTLIGHT: Adia Victoria Blends Poetry and Melody for a Sound All Her Own

Singer, guitarist, and lyricist Adia Victoria’s words and music transcend genre classification and remind us of the variety of artists and mediums in Nashville, a city that’s a limiting label unto its swiftly gentrifying self. Becoming her own artist began when Victoria was a studious bookworm raised in

Chely Wright Talks Emmylou, Rodney, and "I Am the Rain"

Chely Wright Talks Emmylou, Rodney, and "I Am the Rain"

Country singer, guitarist, and songwriter Chely Wright’s coming out as a lesbian in May of 2010 not only liberated a woman from a secret she’d held since she was eight years old; it inflamed preexisting concerns within Music Row about promoting an openly gay artist. Wright was, after