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TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: NASHVILLE’S RYMAN AUDITORIUM

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by Nancy Posey01336
By the time the Tedeschi Trucks Band cranked up “Joyful Noise” Tuesday night at the first show of their Ryman residency, the audience knew that was a perfect description of the experience. Husband and wife Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks know how to fill a stage. With dual drummers Tyler......

MEGAN KNIGHT: MY DRAMA

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by Nancy Posey01297
Megan Knight may seem young to be an old pro, but at twenty-four, the Williamsport, New Jersey native has been in the music business since she was thirteen. She found her way to Muscle Shoals unexpectedly after playing a backyard benefit party. Someone there mentioned having a friend in Alabama......

Chris Castino and Chicken Wire Empire: Fresh Pickles

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by Nancy Posey01216
Fresh Pickles, Chris Castino’s upcoming release with Chicken Wire Empire, is less a departure from his career with the jam band The Big Wu than a return to his earlier influences. Castino admits that when he started writing songs, he was new to bluegrass. He credits his heightened interest to......

CHARLIE PARR: MERCY LOUNGE

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by Nancy Posey0565
Charlie Parr doesn’t take himself too seriously. He lets his music speak for itself. At his Nashville show at Mercy Lounge Thursday, the Minnesota singer-songwriter was working the merch table by himself until time to go on stage. He opened with “Walking Back from Willmar” from his newest release Last......

UP SOUTH: OXFORD AMERICA RELEASES THE 2021 SOUTHERN MUSIC ISSUE

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by Nancy Posey01014
Most of people have those “where were you when” memories that mark when they heard about history-making events—the Kennedy assassination, Columbine, 9/11. Likewise, most people can mark the before and after of March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic brought life as usual to a halt. In February, Oxford American editor......

SHOALSFEST RETURNS AFTER PANDEMIC HIATUS

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by Nancy Posey0611
Although protocols were in place for ShoalsFest 2021 at MacFarland Park in Florence, Alabama, music fans found little difference in the experience of music festival held over two days this year and the inaugural ShoalsFest in 2021. The festival is brainchild of one of the Shoals’ favorite sons Jason Isbell,......

HAYES CARLL@THE WASH–EASTSIDE BOWL–AMERICANA MUSIC FEST 2021

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by Nancy Posey0748
Introducing Hayes Carll at the WMOT’s AmericanaFest Day Stage, Web Wilder joked about his first interview with the Texas singer-songwriter. He had been told, “This guy has great stories.” That day, he says, Carll didn’t come through. For his set at The Wash–Eastside Bowl, he proved to his audience that......

POWER TO THE MUSIC: THE SONGS OF 1971@BASEMENT EAST

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by Nancy Posey0416
In the year that marked the Apple Original series “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” the Basement East presented a four-hour tribute to the song of that iconic year, following their successful showcase of 1969 at the last Americana Fest. With a stellar house band and backup singers, the......