Jewly Hight
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In the '90s, Brooks & Dunn helped to broaden country music's audience with its embrace of a wide range of sounds and on-stage spectacle. 25 years later, their influence is everywhere in Nashville.
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The country legend's new album returns to some of her commercial roots, telling stories of domestic betrayal in grand yet thoroughly grounded fashion.
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Auerbach breaks down working with new artists and seasoned session players through his label imprint, Easy Eye Sound.
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On her bustling third album, the former Carolina Chocolate Drops member maps her vision of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora while gently taking Anglocentricism (and capitalism) down a notch.
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The Berklee-educated trio of Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland and Mali Obomsawin deftly mine the particulars of their individual lives into a rousing, modernist adaptation of Americana music.
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The psych-rock band's ambitious recreation of Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete features a cast of women vocalists gifted at pondering both interior and exterior worlds from a remove.
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Mattea and Quinn-Broadus inhabit two totally different musical worlds, but when each artist was stopped in her tracks by vocal difficulties, they found common ground in the journey back to the stage.
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From family memorials to jam sessions to every show at the Grand Ole Opry, the familiar singalong helps people feel connected to those who have died — whether legendary musicians or loved ones.
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Rather than the complexities of inheritance, Rosanne Cash's mind is on what it takes to dislodge entrenched patterns and hierarchies.
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Taking on all manner of "shouldn'ts" is a specialty of Lambert's, whose body of work knowingly disobeys the rules of feminine decorum. Who else has been more strong-willed and sisterly at once?