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ALBUM REVIEW: Merle Haggard Gets His Double-Due With a New Willie Nelson Set and A Top-Rate Tribute Reissue

ALBUM REVIEW: Merle Haggard Gets His Double-Due With a New Willie Nelson Set and A Top-Rate Tribute Reissue

“He won’t ever be gone,” Willie Nelson sang of Merle Haggard on the last song of Nelson’s 2017 album God’s Problem Child — and he’s right, of course. Haggard, who died in 2016, was one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century regardless of genre. So

ALBUM REVIEW: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover Channel Woodie Guthrie on ‘What of Our Nature’

ALBUM REVIEW: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover Channel Woodie Guthrie on ‘What of Our Nature’

ALBUM REVIEW: Amy Speace Delivers on Emotional New Album, 'The Blue Rock Sessions'

ALBUM REVIEW: Amy Speace Delivers on Emotional New Album, 'The Blue Rock Sessions'

ALBUM REVIEW: The Bros. Landreth Hope for Better Days Ahead on ‘Dog Ear’

ALBUM REVIEW: The Bros. Landreth Hope for Better Days Ahead on ‘Dog Ear’

ALBUM REVIEW: On 'Memories and Empties' Colter Wall Turned Up a Notch

ALBUM REVIEW: On 'Memories and Empties' Colter Wall Turned Up a Notch

ALBUM REVIEW: North Carolina songwriter Abigail Dowd Grooves from the Lows to the Highs in 'Saints & Warriors'

ALBUM REVIEW: North Carolina songwriter Abigail Dowd Grooves from the Lows to the Highs in 'Saints & Warriors'

ALBUM REVIEW: Courtney Hartman Assembles Her Village for ‘With You’

ALBUM REVIEW: Courtney Hartman Assembles Her Village for ‘With You’