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Tag Archives: folk music
Two nights in Texas
Mississippi-born singer songwriter Kate Campbell intruded into my awareness in the late ‘90s, and since then, each lyrical and patently Southern album she releases is a must-own in my limited collection. On Sept. 27, she released her latest, a live … Continue reading
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Tagged 10000 Lures, Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studio, country music, Crazy in Alabama, dobro, Don Porterfield, folk music, Galaxie 500, Genesis Blues, Jesus and Tomatoes, Kate Campbell, Lance Elliott Wallace, Lance Wallace, Look Away, New South, New South Essays, NewSouth, Peace Comes Stealing Slow, Sally Van Meter, Scott Ainslie, singer songwriter, Southern Culture, Southern Living, Southern music, Steal Away, the South, The Steal Away Trilogy, Tupelo's Too Far, Two Nights in Texas, Would They Love Him Down in Shreveport
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I Gotta Go … listen to Robert Earl Keen
I’m a writer, not a musician. That’s the best way to explain my fascination with country music – specifically, alternative country and the work of singer-songwriters. I’m not much of a fan of that over-produced, impure sound coming out of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Bigger Piece of Sky, album, alt country, alt country music, alternative country, country music, Cowboy music, folk music, I Gotta Go, Lance Elliott Wallace, Lance Wallace, musicians, New South, New South Essays, NewSouth, Ready for Confetti, REK, review, Robert Earl Keen, South, Southern Culture, Southern music, Texas, Texas music, The Macon Telegraph, The Road Goes on Forever, the South, Top Down
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