Jewly Hight

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Brittany Howard is going to make her dreams come true

Friday, November 17, 2023

The Alabama Shakes singer exploded preconceptions with her 2019 solo debut. On What Now, a follow-up born from a few years of life-quaking resets, she's ready to leave any remaining limits behind.

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History was made at the Country Music Awards in Nashville

Thursday, November 09, 2023

Luke Combs' cover of Tracy Chapman's 1988 hit "Fast Car" won single of the year. Chapman got song of the year — making her the first Black songwriter to win in that category.

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Allison Russell wants to make waves

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Two years ago, Allison Russell's breakthrough album took the roots music world by storm. Now nominated for the genre's highest honor, Russell has a new goal: to open Americana up even more.

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Becca Mancari fights for their existence with an expanded pop palette

Thursday, August 24, 2023

On Left Hand, Mancari positions themselves in the eye of sonic storms to communicate emotional truths with startling clarity.

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Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Pearl rages on

Thursday, August 17, 2023

In the mid-2000s, Be Your Own Pet's frenetic punk sneered at the trappings of adulthood. The group returns after a 15-year hiatus with Mommy, an album that builds on its oppositional beginnings.

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Joy Oladokun sings for everyone — especially herself — on 'Proof of Life'

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

In Oladokun's new songs, facets of who she is and what she's lived, seen and imagined provide entry points to her homey pop music.

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How Mya Byrne paved her long, winding road to country music with grit and sparkle

Monday, May 01, 2023

Mya Byrne loved country music since her childhood in New Jersey. But it took years of searching and traveling to lead to the place where she could make her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy.

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The War and Treaty's songs of ardent commitment find deeper clarity on 'Lover's Game'

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

On the duo's latest album, its first full-length released on a major country label, Tanya and Michael Trotter Jr. sing piano-driven originals with a grown-up sense of devotion.

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'Where am I going to be free to be who I am?'

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Due to a new Tennessee law limiting drag performances, many drag artists, as well as trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming musicians, worry about their prospects in Nashville and beyond.

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Charley Crockett: Tiny Desk Concert

Friday, February 24, 2023

In his vintage Stetson, the Texas troubadour performed a set of songs that find new meaning in familiar country, folk and blues forms.

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Adeem the Artist refines their ability to tell country tales from where they stand

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

On White Trash Revelry, Adeem worked to understand their white, Southern, working-class, pansexual, nonbinary country songwriting identity — and they have some pretty great jokes about it.

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On Caitlin Rose's first album in 9 years, she's wistful, wiser and having fun again

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Rose's early records mixed country, pop and indie rock — a rare approach at the time. Now, she's released her lustrous new record, CAZIMI, into the musical landscape that she helped shape.

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How a triumphant anthem for 'The Woman King' brought Jessy Wilson back to music

Saturday, November 05, 2022

Singer-songwriter Jessy Wilson was ready to walk away from music until her song "Keep Rising" was chosen as the closing anthem for the movie The Woman King.

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Lavender Country's Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music's radical elder

Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Lavender Country's 1973 debut is considered the first openly gay country album. After the record was reissued in 2014, fans and fellow artists came to embrace Haggerty, who died Monday, as a pioneer.

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Country music icon Loretta Lynn dies at 90

Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Loretta Lynn, the country music star who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting, died at her home in Tennessee on Tuesday. She was 90.

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Loretta Lynn, country music icon, has died at 90

Tuesday, October 04, 2022

The country singer brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting over the course of her 60-year career.

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Ashley McBryde's 'Lindeville' is a glorious detour into downhome character studies

Tuesday, October 04, 2022

McBryde could've made another record of tough and tender country songs, like the ones that established her. But first, she wanted to have fun with the genre's long tradition of character-driven tales.

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How to fit a top-tier HBCU marching band and the gospel tradition onto one album

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The massive sound of The Aristocrat of Bands, a highly respected HBCU marching band, and the overflowing history of gospel combine on a single album (with a great title) — 'The Urban Hymnal.'

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Jake Blount's 'The New Faith' is a cautionary, clarifying Afrofuturist tale

Thursday, September 22, 2022

On Blount's new concept album, the singer, scholar and multi-instrumentalist reimagines field recordings of spirituals to tell a story about a time after the climate crisis has destroyed the earth.

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Madison Cunningham: Tiny Desk Concert

Wednesday, August 03, 2022

The singer-songwriter performs a selection of tracks from her forthcoming album, Revealer, that are alive with new sensations.

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