Brittney McKenna
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Produced by Brandi Carlile, the eponymous 11-song collection offers snapshots of Brandy Clark the person, not Brandy Clark the pen-for-hire.
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Carlile wrote her latest album during COVID-19 lockdown, fresh off having written a memoir. The record plumbs her past with humility, but even more so, celebrates the hard-won wisdom she's gained.
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Roots music has always had rule-breakers, but its shift this century toward genre-twisting innovation owes a lot to a 2000 album by three kids barely old enough to vote.
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East Nashville, where many artists and industry folks work and live, was hit particularly hard by the tornado that swept through the city in the early hours of Tuesday.
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Elise Davis frankly explores sexual desire and casual relationships in a buoyantly arranged song co-written with Maren Morris and Frank Romano.
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There's a sharp crackle of anxiety beneath the crushed velvet pop sheen of Caroline Rose's latest track.
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In the gospel-tinged title track from her new album, Courtney Marie Andrews positions kindness as an antidote both to broken-heartedness and to bad luck.
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The country singer's ninth album shows why Womack is one of American roots music's foremost auteurs.
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Maren Morris' new song with Vince Gill was written in 2015 after the mass shooting in Charleston. The country singer releases it now to benefit the victims of violence in Las Vegas.
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Streaming the upcoming album by one of Americana's most revered songwriters in its entirety.