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Margo Cilker's First Album Was a Sleeper Hit. Now What?
Oregon-based songwriter takes a big leap forward on her latest album, 'Valley of Heart’s Delight'
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Listen to Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves' Simmering Duet 'I Remember Everything'
The collab appears on Bryan's new self-titled album, out now
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Lana Del Rey Shines, James Taylor Comes to the Rescue: The Best Things We Saw at Newport Folk Festival 2023
Rising stars, future legends, and 'emergency folk music' are all on the bill at a fresh start for the festival
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Turnpike Troubadours' Evan Felker Singing With Jason Isbell Is the Collab You Need to See
Felker sang Isbell's "King of Oklahoma" at Newport Folk Festival, while surprise guest Tyler Childers joined Turnpike to pay tribute to John Prine
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Here’s What’s Wrong With Jason Aldean’s Vision of America
"It’s this narrative of white nationalism,” says a scholar of racial violence. “But it’s packaged in this really nice, seemingly benign package of country music”
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Fans Keep Dying at This Country Music Festival. Their Families Want Answers
At Faster Horses in Michigan, seven reported deaths have occurred over the fest's short nine-year history. Survivors of a 2021 tragedy want accountability
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'Fast Car' and the Roadblocks Black Female Songwriters Face in Country Music
Hit songwriter Tayla Parx, one of only a handful of Black women to co-write a country Number One, shares her experiences in Nashville and weighs in on Luke Combs' cover of Tracy Chapman's classic
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Tracy Chapman Will Become the First Black Woman to Score a Number One Country Song as Sole Writer
Luke Combs' version of Chapman's 1988 hit "Fast Car" is expected to top Billboard's Country Airplay chart
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New Stax Collection Will Make You Rethink One of American Music's Most Important Record Labels
'Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos' shows a side of Southern soul the listening public never heard at the time.
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Joanna Sternberg Went Through Hell To Make Their Triumphant New Album
After their acclaimed 2019 debut became a word-of-mouth hit among artists, the singer-songwriter had to take a hard look at the people they were relying on
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