Nikki Lane has been on a Nashville tear this week, culminating with a pop-up appearance Wednesday night during Lukas Nelson’s headlining show at Chief’s, during which she sang “Born Runnin’ Outta Time,” off Nelson’s upcoming album American Romance. By show’s end, Lane was once again onstage, harmonizing on another song …
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It’s early Saturday evening and contemporary bluesman Cedric Burnside — the grandson of the great R.L. Burnside — is sitting on a large rock along the banks of the French Broad River. A hot mid-summer sun falls behind the Blue Ridge Mountains cradling his current location in Asheville, North Carolina. …
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With the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana in the distance and a BNSF freight train rolling down the tracks nearby, Luke Grimes, the Yellowstone actor and emerging singer-songwriter, gazed across a sea of faces during his Friday evening performance at the Under the Big Sky festival. “This is, by far, …
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Nikki Lane leaves Nashville behind and, ahem, ships up to Boston to film a new video with Dropkick Murphys. The country singer-songwriter duets with DKM’s Ken Casey on “Never Git Drunk No More,” a track off the band’s Woody Guthrie album This Machine Still Kills Fascists. Directed by Mike Rivkees, …
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When Nikki Lane was in eighth grade in Greenville, South Carolina, her basketball coach approached the chalkboard and scribbled “Complacency Kills” for her and her fellow middle-schoolers to digest. It lit a fire under the future country singer. “Oh, that just burned me,” Lane tells Rolling Stone. “I grew up …
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Nikki Lane embraces her rock & roll side on “First High,” the lead release from the singer-songwriter’s first album in five years. Denim & Diamonds, the follow-up to Lane’s 2017 album Highway Queen, will arrive Sept. 23 via New West. Produced by Queens of the Stone Age leader Josh Homme, …
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