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Stacy Chandler

Finding the Frequency: A Conversation with Tift Merritt and Andrew Bird

Finding the Frequency: A Conversation with Tift Merritt and Andrew Bird

Tift Merritt and Andrew Bird met as fellow singer-songwriters early in their careers in New York City. Through the years, they’ve played together as busy schedules and lives have allowed, including a breathtaking appearance on an audience-less The Late Show with David Letterman amid Hurricane Sandy, when they played

SPOTLIGHT: Meet Buddy and Julie Miller’s Furry Friends

SPOTLIGHT: Meet Buddy and Julie Miller’s Furry Friends

So much of the magic Buddy and Julie Miller make emanates from their charming Nashville home. Their latest album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, was recorded in their bedroom there, and Buddy’s downstairs studio (which you can tour here with Aaron Lee Tasjan!) has recorded many albums we know

SPOTLIGHT: Come Along as Buddy Miller Shows Aaron Lee Tasjan around His Home Studio

SPOTLIGHT: Come Along as Buddy Miller Shows Aaron Lee Tasjan around His Home Studio

While Buddy and Julie Miller recorded their new album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, in their bedroom, the studio in the downstairs of their Nashville home has been the site of countless fantastic recordings, including some from Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, The War and Treaty, and Solomon Burke. Recently, Buddy

Jim Lauderdale on Tai Chi and Learning How to Listen

Jim Lauderdale on Tai Chi and Learning How to Listen

Between his own shows, recording sessions, and collaborations with countless other people, Jim Lauderdale is a busy guy. But every day he makes time to step away from it all — preferably outside, but anywhere quiet will do — to turn his focus inward through his practice of tai chi. Often summed

Leon Redbone Has 'Crossed the Delta for that Beautiful Shore'

Leon Redbone Has 'Crossed the Delta for that Beautiful Shore'

Leon Redbone, who died Thursday at an age he always declined to specify, wasn’t a hitmaker, but he did make quite an impression. His head and heart were firmly in yesteryear, and he wove songs with roots in the first half of the 20th century, tinged with blues, jazz,

Celebrating 110 Years of Maybelle Carter

Celebrating 110 Years of Maybelle Carter

Maybelle Carter was born 110 years ago today, and though she died in 1978, her legacy is alive and strong among guitar players, songwriters, and music lovers. Cathy Fink falls into all three of those categories and recently wrote a song in tribute to Maybelle Carter. Here’s the song,

SPOTLIGHT VIDEO: Rising Appalachia Song Urges Us to ‘Harmonize’

SPOTLIGHT VIDEO: Rising Appalachia Song Urges Us to ‘Harmonize’

Leylines, the brand new album from ND’s May Spotlight band, Rising Appalachia, is filled with songs about connections. (The album title itself refers to a belief in lines of spiritual energy that connect places around the world.) Here’s the duo, sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, on one such