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Stephen and Jana Mougin: Bluegrass Mondays at Dee’s

Nancy PoseyAugust 7, 2024September 23, 2024

by Nancy PoseyAugust 7, 2024September 23, 202401755

Bluegrass Mondays at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge have become a favorite weekly event for music lovers—and musicians—in the Nashville areas. After a six-year residency, East Nash Grass has taken a break while touring, with other local musicians filling the slot. On Monday this week, Jana and Stephen Mougin took to......

RICK FARIS BAND: STATION INN

Nancy PoseyJuly 13, 2024

by Nancy PoseyJuly 13, 202401824

The Rick Faris Band played Nashville’s iconic Station Inn stage on Friday, July 12, to a lively crowd of locals and out-of-towners, staunch bluegrass fans, and even some bachelorettes.Jed Clark opened the evening on guitar, showcasing his finger-picking style and original lyrics. Rick Faris has spent his life apprenticing for......

Alan Walker’s A LITTLE TOO LATE: Right on Time

Nancy PoseyJuly 1, 2024July 1, 2024

by Nancy PoseyJuly 1, 2024July 1, 202402404

On his latest album A Little Too Late, Alan Walker, singer-songwriter and former front man for The Brilliant Mistakes, channels the music that shaped his own musical journey. He acknowledges the profound impact of hearing the Beatles Let It Be for the first time through the walls of his childhood......

RED MOUNTAIN BOYS @ THE STATION INN

Nancy PoseyJune 16, 2024

by Nancy PoseyJune 16, 20242 1812

It takes more than matching red Western shirts and cowboy hats to make a band. Red Mountain Boys showed the audience at the Station Inn on Friday that they have more—much more. The Colorado-based bluegrass band played to a packed house, with light, friendly banter between their all-original songs. Their......

ROBERT EARL KEEN @ THE RYMAN

Nancy PoseyJune 4, 2024

by Nancy PoseyJune 4, 202401746

Robert Earl Keen certainly knows how to read his audiences and to consider his fan base. In advance of the digital relaunch of his Western Chill album, the REK band appeared at the Ryman Auditorium, which he called “the Taj Majal, Mount Rushmore, and Westminster Abbey of Country Music.” Oklahoman......

KRISTY COX & GRASSTIME LAUNCH ‘LET IT BURN’ @ THE STATION INN

Nancy PoseyJune 4, 2024June 4, 2024

by Nancy PoseyJune 4, 2024June 4, 202412221

While Kristy Cox has certainly played for a packed audience before at Nashville’s historic Station Inn, which she called “The Grand Ole Opry of bluegrass,” she admitted to some nerves on Friday as she launched her latest album Let It Burn (Billy Blue Records). With a sell-out crowd, Cox and......

THE IMAGINARIES@HISTORIC ROCK CASTLE FOR OPENING SONGWRITERS NIGHT

Nancy PoseyMay 30, 2024June 1, 2024

by Nancy PoseyMay 30, 2024June 1, 202401351

The Imaginaries–Maggie McClure and Shane Henry–kicked off their Wheels on the Pavement Tour as they opened Songwriters Night at the Historic Rock Castle in Hendersonville. The family-friendly summer event drew a crowd with food trucks and inflatables to supplement the music on the outdoor stage. The husband-and-wife duo, on electric......

JOHN COWAN PUBLISHES ‘HOLD TO A DREAM: A NEWGRASS ODYSSEY’

Nancy PoseyMay 22, 2024May 23, 2024

by Nancy PoseyMay 22, 2024May 23, 202401845

At Parnassus Books in Nashville, the literary and musical worlds often intersect. On Tuesday, May 20, John Cowan, known best as a vocalist and bass player, appeared in conversation with his collaborator Jimmy Schwartz and local journalist Ron Wynn to discuss his new book Hold to a Dream: A Newgrass......

Robert Earl Keen Releases “Let’s Valet”

Nancy PoseyMay 10, 2024May 10, 2024

by Nancy PoseyMay 10, 2024May 10, 202402271

Fans certainly won’t complain if Robert Earl Keen plans to release new music and resume touring after his Farewell Tour. The upside to retiring, after all, is the freedom to do just what one pleases. Early in 2023, Keen released Western Chill as a package deal–an LP of new music......

MERLEFEST 2024: SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS

Nancy PoseyMay 6, 2024January 11, 2026

by Nancy PoseyMay 6, 2024January 11, 202601266

Saturday at MerleFest poses a challenge for festival-goers with a bad case of FOMO: At any given time slot, several stages beckon. With a choice of either seeing MerleFest favorite performers one more time or checking out some of the new acts on the lineup, the only guarantee is good......