This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for songs to welcome in June from The Decemberists, The Fretless, and The Mammals, along with new music from Dervish with Iron & Wine, Ken Pomeroy, Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck, and Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band, favorites from Randy Newman and Sierra Ferrell, and some news about Bruce Cockburn too.
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There are few things worse for a country music fan than the dreaded day-of-show cancellation. You’ve been planning for months. You may have dropped a ridiculous amount of money on tickets, booked a hotel room, maybe took time off work (if you work weekends). As someone who spent pretty much all of my concert going years in Chicago, I never really experienced traveling to a show, but for many country music fans… it’s a way of life. For some, it’s […]
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Over the last couple of years, Alabama-based up-and-coming bluegrass band Mountain Grass Unit has really been lighting the bluegrass world on fire, impressing audiences at big festivals, enjoying bigger and bigger opportunities.
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Honestly, I’d do the exact same. Every artist has a story about how they got to where they are today, and many folks include working with or for more established artists in the industry. While most people have a mentor they can thank, Ashley McBryde has a very special woman whom she worked for and learned from long before she was writing records and selling out shows. In her early days in Nashville, Ashley McBryde worked for none other than […]
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Chris Robinson speaks. Last weekend, Whiskey Myers and The Black Crowes played a show in Tampa, Florida at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre during a stop on their co-headlining Southern Hospitality tour. However, once that rowdy Florida crowd broke out into a “USA, USA” chant, as patriotic people tend to do at large gatherings, the Black Crowes frontman was immediately triggered. Right before The Black Crowes started playing the fan-favorite “She Talks to Angels,” a visual came on a screen that […]
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Ella Langley got candid about her mental health struggles, including what happened during the 2025 ACMs. But, a country star helped her out.
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