Jewly Hight
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In the '90s, Brooks & Dunn helped to broaden country music's audience with its embrace of a wide range of sounds and on-stage spectacle. 25 years later, their influence is everywhere in Nashville.
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Auerbach breaks down working with new artists and seasoned session players through his label imprint, Easy Eye Sound.
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The black British singer grew up loving American country music. Now, she's living out her Americana dreams with her debut full-length, Walk Through Fire.
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On her bustling third album, the former Carolina Chocolate Drops member maps her vision of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora while gently taking Anglocentricism (and capitalism) down a notch.
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The psych-rock band's ambitious recreation of Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweetefeatures a cast of women vocalists gifted at pondering both interior and exterior worlds from a remove.
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Tasjan got a scholarship to study jazz at Berklee then co-founded a glam rock band in New York before landing in the Nashville singer-songwriter scene.
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The mother-and-son duo returns with a short set of charming folk songs.
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Country Music's Outlaw Legacy, Behind GlassAt the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, an exhibit casts the Outlaw country movement of the 1970s as a fluid exchange between the Nashville establishment and raucous outsiders.
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Tenille Townes has been focused on country music stardom since her childhood in Alberta, Canada. Now the 24-year-old singer-songwriter is balancing Nashville's many resources with her own instincts.
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The venerated songwriter discusses learning to love his voice and how years of scribbled lyrics on yellow legal pads became The Tree of Forgiveness, his first album of new material in over a decade.
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Musgraves' self-awareness has taken on a pensive, lamenting quality, like she's weighing the relational impact of asserting her individuality.
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Over the last five years, a gradual evolution — characterized by careful and savvy boundary pushing — has taken hold in a genre where innovation always tugs against preservation.