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Lara Downes & Friends – Hold These Truths This showcase begins pensively with a short piano piece, “Welcome,” & like several of the 21 cuts on this album, it’s precise & brief. The compositions vary from works written by Oscar Peterson, Willie Nelson, Charles Ives, Stephen Foster, Leonard Bernstein & Aaron Copland. It’s quite a […]
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Erin Lunsford Rhinestones Virginia-based folk/Americana singer-songwriter Erin Lunsford recently released her sophomore album, Rhinestones, exploring motifs of love, family, mental health, friendship, discouragement, and leaving home. Talking about the album, Lunsford shares, “I have fixed rhinestones in my hair, I have glued sequins to my guitar, I have tried to make my body smaller and […]
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It’s the way that River wields an uncanny ability to craft incredibly infectious melodies, and then brings them to bear on music otherwise colored with dark themes. It’s the way the music mixes country and rock…
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Cindy’s playlist features Maura Shawn Scanlin’s “The Good Ship” – which we premiered last week – and “Piper’s Lagoon” from Ken and Brad Kolodner (ever heard of him?). Ken and Brad’s album “Hand’s Cove” is out this week and Devon Léger reviewed it for FA. I (Sarah LD) tried to write about Sophie Wellington’s “In Seaport Town” but I kept crying. Which is fine. Crying is allowed. I’ll leave you with this: Harper Lee’s pen lives in Sophie Wellington’s lyrics. Many other excellent selections included.
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Now that’s a music video. Riley Green is gearing up to released his new album That’s Just Me will be out everywhere this fall, on September 18th, and the lead single is a humorous, heck of a good time called “Think As You Drunk.” In an interview with Billboard, he explained that he wanted to include a sample of Toby Keith’s 2005 hit, “As Good As I Once Was,” which Riley says his dad used to joke was about him. […]
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Well, that’s one way to put it. TMZ broke the news that Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, filed for divorce from his wife Bunnie Xo, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, back on May 18 in Williamson County Chancery Court, just outside of Nashville. Whiskey Riff obtained a copy of the divorce complaint that was filed by the “Save Me” singer, which reveals that the couple separated on May 9, a week and a half before the request for a divorce was filed. […]
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Every parent knows the frustration of their kids using tech too much. But one dad opted to turn a Nintendo console into a frisbee over it.
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People like to see films and TV shows that reflect their own lives to some degree. Of course, escapism is okay, too. So watching entertainment about the ultra-rich and powerful does satisfy the heart and mind sometimes. That stuff is aspirational. It’s fine. However, to comedian Jeff Foxworthy, Hollywood is badly out of sync with […]
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