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Joan Baez has new album and last tour upcoming
Joan Baez has a pair of big announcements about 2018 – the first is that she’ll release her latest album in May, her first album for ten years. The second is that she’ll be touring the […]
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Sturgill Simpson goes busking outside CMA Awards
If Simpson and Isbell had a fight to see who was the coolest, Simpson would be one up at this point. (But then the Jeremy Hunt thing… see, it’s never ending..) Billboard report: “The Country Music […]
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Chris Stapleton wins CMA album of the year
The crossover man who puts the “meh” into amehricana, Chris Staplegun has done it again. Oh and people should be prosecuted for beating Jerry Douglas in any category. Rolling Stone reports: “The 51st CMA Awards were […]
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Aaron Rester “Americayana” (Bear Trap Spring, 2017)
The last we heard of Chicago based songwriter Aaron Rester was back in 2009 when we, along with the wider music community were hailing a possible new pioneering Americana breakthrough. The Lost Cartographers were country infused […]
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Drive By Truckers lay into Trump with new song – Listen
Anyone remember when AUK gave DBT a one star review back in 2003 and all hell broke loose? (We’re sorry). Anyway, times have changed and we admit they’re incredible now. RS Country reports: “To coincide with […]