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The state of Tennessee this week added a new song to its list of official anthems. Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road,” about a Vietnam veteran returning home to scratch out a living growing pot, joined the ranks of “Tennessee Waltz” and “Rocky Top.” But while dancing with your darling (depending
Taj Mahal’s One-of-a-Kind Take on the Great American Songbook
Taj Mahal is a hard man to disguise. Throw a cloak over him, sit him in a corner, hide him in a back room. But as soon as he gets near a mic, his cover is blown. His substantial presence looms large over everything he touches, and all genres he
ALBUM REVIEW: The Infamous Stringdusters Honor Where Flatt & Scruggs Have Led
The Infamous Stringdusters know how to keep moving forward while looking back at the legends that paved the way. Their 2018 album, Laws of Gravity, earned a Best Bluegrass Album Grammy in the first-ever tie in the category with Rhonda Vincent, and they went on garner nominations in the
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Seasoned Artists with Crowdfunding Campaigns
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ALBUM REVIEW: Trapper Schoepp Follows Multiple Callings on ‘Siren Songs’
There are two kinds of sirens: warnings and invitations. Trapper Schoepp has filled his new album, Siren Songs, with a wide variety of them, including the calls of good and frightening love, the sea’s terrible lure, and even the sirens that aren’t sirens.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Esther Rose Embraces the Messy and the Mature on ‘Safe to Run’
Esther Rose is a songwriter for trying times. Be it the too frequent extremes of climate change or the loneliest moments of a co-dependent relationship, she articulates that dizzying mix of melancholy and anxiety with astounding empathy. Listening to each of Rose’s records chronologically is like hearing her