The frontman for The Killers, Brandon Flowers, has announced he’s made a bona fide country record that was cut in Nashville with country musicians to express influences that have been itching to come out of him for years.
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Eddie “Blues Man” Kirkland – It’s The Blues Man Born in Kingston, Jamaica & raised in Alabama, Eddie “Blues Man” Kirkland (1923-2011) has a nice, raw vocal & a remarkably good melodic blues feel, evident on the opener—“Down On My Knees.” Kirkland was an electric blues guitarist & harmonica player. He fashioned his own style […]
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Tift Merritt was on tour in Europe with Jason Isbell in 2017 when her career — successful by any standard — stopped making sense.
Her daughter, Jean, then nearly 2 years old, was with her and having a blast. But “she needed roots,” Merritt recalls, and life on
Matt Pless – Water Sign Language Some albums take time to get started, but Baltimore’s Mike Pless must be a happy guy because his opening tune is folky, upbeat, & delightful. That’s different. It hovers close to being silly, but it isn’t. The guitar work is picked clean; the harmonica is bright & Matt’s voice […]
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Never losing touch with the heavy emotions and hard choices so many of the people in his own audience are weighted down and faced with, BJ Barham and American Aquarium deliver an impassioned, propulsive, and potent experience.
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Sierra Hull, awarded Mandolin Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association seven times, has shared a live video of a work commissioned by the FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression‘s nonprofit publisher) in 2022, recorded at Studio 9, and released as an EP this April. She and
Trouble in the deep blue… Last month, Ernest released what many (including us) are calling his career-best album Deep Blue. Featuring the island sounds reminiscent of Jimmy Buffett mixed with his traditional southern country, Ernest explained during an appearance on our Whiskey Riff Raff podcast that the album is a maturation of his debut project from 2019: “It’s kind of a grown-up version of the first project I put out called ‘Locals Only,’ which was all heavily inspired by and largely written […]
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Suno has just launched perhaps its most sinister campaign yet that is attempting to exploit independent and up-and-coming artists, and tug at the heartstrings of the independent music community. They’re doing it through a program called “Spark.”
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There was almost a sequel to Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The 2006 NASCAR film poking fun at the sport and the culture around it is widely considered to be one of the best comedy films of all time. The all-star cast of Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, and Jane Lynch (and many more) brought a zany, stock-car-racing world to the big screen, and provided quotable moments that will likely stand the test […]
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