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AMERICANA MUSIC AWARDS CEREMONY TO BE HELD WITHOUT FESTIVAL THIS YEAR

Nancy Posey
Fans may have been disappointed, but certainly not surprised that the 19thannual AmericanaFest will not be held –at least not in its usual format — in 2020. Recent announcements of nominees for Americana Music Honors and Awards suggested that even plans for the September 16 ceremony at the Ryman Auditorium......

MALLORY JOHNSON’S CELTIC JOURNEY TO COUNTRY MUSIC

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Mallory Johnson calls Nashville home now, but she’s spending the quarantine period with her family in Newfoundland, Canada, where she got her start in music. Growing up, she was steeped in country music. Canada, she points out, has a vibrant country scene. Her mother Loretta is a country artist as......

KATY MOFFATT RELEASES CHRYSALIS

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Chrysalis, the title of the new two-CD release on Sunset Blvd. Records by Katy Moffatt, aptly describes Moffatt’s career, as well as the music appearing on the recording, characterized by transitions.  Chrysalis is a two-CD project pulling together three albums Moffatt recorded ten years apart with guitarist Andrew Hardin: 1988’s Walkin’ On......

JONELL MOSSER WITH JOHN HALL: LITTLE BLACK DRESS

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Jonell Mosser has been in the music business long enough to know that timing can be everything, so it should come as no surprise that Little Black Dress, her newly released CD, is finding a wide audience now, all songs recorded during a performance by Mosser and John Hall in May 1991......

NATE LEE: WINGS OF A JETLINER

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Certainly since the pioneering days of Bill Monroe, nobody has questioned the mandolin’s rightful place in the bluegrass world, but the instrument is too often relegated to a secondary role. In his new solo CD, Wings of a Jetliner, set for a June 12 release, Nate Lee firmly settles his mandolin front......

RACHEL REINERT LAUNCHES FIRST SOLO CD: INTO THE BLUE

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Rachel Reinert began 2020 with expectations of a busy year. With her first solo project Into the Blue set for a March 15 release, she and husband Caleb Crosby took a quick trip to Florida, she says, “just to clear my head. But as soon as we got back to Nashville,......

BECKY BULLER SAFE@HOME IN MANCHESTER

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 When Becky Buller chose the title for her upcoming CD Distance and Time, she had no idea how ironic it would be: “We’re all distancing and we just need some time.” She describes this CD, her third recorded on Stephen “Mojo” Mougin’s Dark Shadow Recording label, as a real mix.  “I’m......

SINGER-SONGWRITER LIDDY CLARK: SAFE@HOME.

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While the current pandemic has found musicians off the road from tours and students taking classes from home, Liddy Clark is experiencing both. The Texas-born singer-songwriter is currently living in Los Angeles and attending USC’s Thornton School of Music, just a few blocks from where she lives. With the “shelter......