Pat McAfee Says Ernest Has Helped Him Record 7 Songs, With The First Titled “Dookie” Dropping Tonight
Pat McAfee has got himself a song coming out… and a country music artist and producer helped make the sports personality’s vision a reality. In case you didn’t know, Ernest (whose full name is Ernest Keith Smith) is one of the most talented music makers in all of Nashville. He’s a singer, songwriter, producer and label owner that has over a dozen No. 1 hits to his name. Every big name in country music wants to work with him. And […]
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Todd Snider photo by Melissa Clarke The Lyrics Only Todd Could Write When we lost Todd Snider, we lost one of America’s most important writers. Though he never gained the mainstream recognition or fame that other top-echelon lyricists amassed in their lifetimes, his influence on the now-mature class of Americana songwriters that followed him by […]
David Byrne at the Fox Theatre: A Night Where Art, Rhythm, and Americana Collide When I first considered covering David Byrne’s tour stop at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, I wasn’t sure I could justify it. After all, Byrne and The Talking Heads have roots in new wave, punk, art rock—genres that sit a long way from […]