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Thursday, 11 April 2013 00:00

Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale

Two Treasures of The Nashville Americana Scene Collaborate – It’s Buddy & Jim
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013 00:00

Moon Taxi

Nashville’s Moon Taxi Grows Their Unique Indie-Prog-Jazz-Folk Style On Their New Album Cabaret
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Tuesday, 09 April 2013 00:00

Caitlin Rose

Singer-Songwriter Caitlin Rose’s First Musical Love Certainly Wasn’t Country
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Monday, 08 April 2013 00:00

Leagues

World Cafe Sense Of Place Visit To Nashville Kicks Off With The Indie-Pop of Leagues
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Monday, 13 May 2013 00:00

Jim James

How A Broken Leg, A 1930’s Graphic Novel And A New Studio All Lead To Jim James’ "Regions Of Light and Sound Of God"

May 13, 2013 - There have been albums under the name Yim Yames and projects with the New Multitudes and Monsters of Folk but Regions Of Light and Sound of God is the first bearing Jim James’ own name.
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Thursday, 04 April 2013 00:00

Jessie Ware

Mercury Prize Nominated Jessie Ware Grows Into The Success of Her Debut Devotion
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Wednesday, 03 April 2013 00:00

Night Beds

A Singer With A Gorgeous High Voice? An Album Recorded In A Cabin? But Night Beds Are Not Bon Iver!
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 00:00

Kail Baxley

Kail Baxley Danced For James Brown, Boxed as an Amateur, and Found The Truth About His Father at His Funeral
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Monday, 01 April 2013 00:00

Richard Thompson Plays Electric Acoustic

Guitar God Richard Thompson Plays Electric Acoustic
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More than forty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix's music is still relevant today. His new album release, People, Hell & Angels debuted at Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 200 list and the single charted at Number One.
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