Lainey Wilson Scores Another #1 Hit On Country Radio As “Somewhere Over Laredo” Tops The Charts

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Lainey Wilson Scores Another #1 Hit On Country Radio As “Somewhere Over Laredo” Tops The Charts

Another hit. Over the weekend, Lainey Wilson scored her 9th career number one song at country radio with her single “Somewhere Over Laredo.” The song was included on the deluxe edition of her 2024 fifth studio album, Whirlwind. Lainey co-wrote it with her frequent collaborators Trannie Anderson, and Dallas Wilson, and Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg also received writing credits as the song interpolates the melody of “Over the Rainbow”, which was of course originally written for the 1939 film The Wizard […]

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Music Reviews: Split Enz’s ‘ENZyclopedia,’ plus ‘Instrumental Hits of the Rock ’n’ Roll Era’ and Newly Restored Frank Sinatra Concerts

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Split Enz CD PackshotNeil Finn’s Crowded House wasn’t the first New Zealand band to make a mark beyond the southern hemisphere. That distinction goes to the experimental art-rock group Split Enz, which Neil’s older brother, Tim, and fellow songwriter Phil Judd formed in 1972. The group, which experienced numerous personnel and stylistic changes over the years, broke up […]

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Watch Sierra Ferrell Busk At Seattle’s Pike Place Market Way Back In 2016

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Watch Sierra Ferrell Busk At Seattle’s Pike Place Market Way Back In 2016

From busking on the streets of New Orleans and beyond to becoming a four-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Sierra Ferrell has truly climbed the ranks to be where she is today. The songbird from West Virginia has quite a story. She spent many years homeless, train-hopping, and busking on the streets in cities all over the United States. During this time in her life, Ferrell was abusing drugs, and has shared that she’s died five times by overdose, but has been […]

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