AMERICANA MUSIC

John R. Miller’s The Great Unknowing expands his country-rooted songwriting without leaving its working-class concerns behind. The album moves between acoustic character studies, honky-tonk arrangements, and louder electric passages, but Miller’s focus stays on people dealing with disappointment, economic pressure, and their own bad habits. Greg Brown’s 1994 album The Poet Game offers a useful earlier model. Brown also built songs from ordinary lives and local details, then allowed broader social concerns to emerge without turning the writing into commentary first and music second.

You’d think they’d know better by now. Morgan Wallen is wrapping up his Still the Problem Tour, with only two dates left after this weekend’s two-night run at the Big House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And for some reason, people are still trying to throw their phones on stage in hopes of…getting a selfie, I guess? Spoiler alert: It never works. Throughout the tour, we’ve seen several instances of Morgan getting annoyed with fans throwing their phones on stage during the show […]

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The beloved ‘Jeopardy!’ veteran had won a total of seven consecutive times across her appearances on the legendary show.

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The Colorado wildfires had caused this firefighter as well as four others to be trapped in a “burnover”, where every exit gets blocked.

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