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Honey and The Bear “A Wish & A Tide”

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Combining personal songs with others rooted in their home brings an engaging and entertaining album. Spread around the country, there are a surprising number of couples quietly working on music, playing gigs within easy reach of […]
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Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck “My Epitaph” – remember me this way

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The Fiddle And The Drum is the new collaborative album from Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck, and My Epitaph is the latest single from it. Originally written and recorded by Appalachian folk artist Ola Belle Reed, […]
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Video Premiere: Florence Dore “Twelve Great Minds (Department Meeting)”

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The new single from Florence Dore is a rocking, insistent anthem for a problem that many of us will associate with: meetings at work that manage to be both boring and pointless. With Will Rigby’s restless […]

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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