Boone Creek Boone Creek (Craft Recordings/HighTone Records) Fans of quality bluegrass will be thrilled to hear about the re-release of Boone Creek’s debut from 1977, remastered and loaded, additionally, with previously unreleased tracks. First there was traditional bluegrass – established by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass boys back as early as ’39. It kicked […]
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Songwriter’s Songwriter & Performer’s Performer: Jim Lauderdale Still Leads From the Front June 20 – State College, PA There are artists whose reputations eventually outgrow their real-life performances. Jim Lauderdale isn’t one of them. By the time Jim Lauderdale walked onto the tiny Attic stage inside The State Theatre in State College, Pennsylvania on June […]
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The perfect balance between familiar and accessible, and involved and thought-provoking. This is country music at an elevated level that belies Addison Johnson’s otherwise underdog status.
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Patrick Haggerty loved to describe himself as, “a screaming Marxist bitch.” More popularly known as the artist Lavender Country, Haggerty recorded the first known queer country album in 1973 – no parodies, no homophobia, and no veiled references. That album, Lavender Country, set the template for future generations:
Michelle Pfeiffer has graced the big screen in classic films like Scarface, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and Up Close and Personal. Her leading men have included outstanding actors such as Al Pacino and the late Robert Redford. Today, Pfeiffer has a prominent role in the popular TV drama The Madison. However, back in the day […]
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