Grace Bowers is Ready to Fly
It’s hard not to wince when Grace Bowers references “when she was younger” or some event happening “a long time
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Drew Holcomb Contemplates Possibility
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors challenge self-imposed rules with the release of their latest album “Strangers No More”
Marty Stuart Reaches “Altitude”
The Marty Stuart story is like a well-plotted drama. Act one began early. A music fan almost from birth, Stuart
Joy Oladokun: Proof of Life
Joy Oladokun found her purpose and her voice when she was 10 years old. The year was 2002, and the moment arrived in the form of a video of singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman performing at London’s Wembley Stadium for Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday.
Amy Grant: The Lucky One
In the winter of 1981, a 21-year-old Amy Grant arrived at the renowned Caribou Ranch recording studio in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to record the tracks for her fourth album, Age to Age. An album that changed her life completely.
Margo Price Offers a View From the Mountain
In the summer of 2015, the album that would become Margo Price’s breakout debut, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, had been sitting in the can for months. A disastrous summer tour left her and her husband, Jeremy Ivey, broke and disgusted. Record label rejections were piling up.
Only in Nashville: Jack White Finds Inspirtion in Music City
Jack White got his first real taste of Nashville more than 20 years ago, when the White Stripes played at The End on a steamy night in September 2001.
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Andrew Leahey Creates Music Out of The Noise
One morning in November 2013, Andrew Leahey drove with his wife to Vanderbilt hospital. He was scheduled to undergo a craniotomy to remove an acoustic neuroma tangled in the nerves behind his right ear, culminating months of excruciating headaches, strange tones no one else could hear, overwhelming fatigue, loss of balance, and one disastrous medical misdiagnosis.
Old Crow Medicine Show Adds Another Verse to the American Song on “Paint This Town”
Since debuting with their first studio album, O.C.M.S., in 2004, Old Crow Medicine Show have become something of a string band institution.
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