AmericanaFest grew to nearly South by Southwest proportions this year, with concerts seemingly going on all day long at venues, backyards, and parking lots across Nashville. Heavy hitters were everywhere, like Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker, and the Mavericks, who somehow shoehorned their big band onto two of Nashville’s tiniest stages: …
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After logging nearly two decades in Nashville as a songwriter, Kendell Marvel turns a corner with this year’s Lowdown and Lonesome, a solo debut album rooted equally in outlaw country and southern rock. “I seen all this cool stuff going on with Stapleton and Cody Jinks and Sturgill,” he tells …
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Growing up in the same pocket of eastern Kentucky that once housed Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers took note of the region’s customs, challenges and characters. He sets that area to music with his newest album, Purgatory, an album of Appalachian-influenced Americana and raw, rural storytelling whose songs were co-produced by …
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