Ken Pomeroy wants you to feel her empathy. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter may be sharing her hopes for Cruel Joke, her 12-track album that drops on May 16th, but she’s also articulating the reason she makes music at all. “From the beginning, the goal for me — my mission statement, I …
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“If I had an idea that gave me a feeling, I would pursue it,” Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker tells Rolling Stone. “On this record, it was all about trying to find songs in a very different manner than overthinking things, or trying to let people know that I could …
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Jason Scott knows that he and his band, the High Heat, aren’t part of the mainstream. And they’re just fine with that. “We’re outside the norm of radio country,” Scott says. “We’re sort of fringe, and that’s where we like it.” That may change soon, however. The Oklahoma City-based five-piece …
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If Jason Boland sounds as if he’s holding up a mirror to his quarter-century-plus career in The Last Kings of Babylon, it’s because he’s feeling all kinds of introspective these days. “As a songwriter, I have found that — for bands that record and write most of their own music …
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After 15 years, two months, and 30 days, Cross Canadian Ragweed’s hiatus is over. The Oklahoma four-piece, whose mid-2000s heyday laid the groundwork for the current surge in popularity of Red Dirt music, reunited to play six songs late Thursday, closing down the main stage on a cold night at …
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Wearing a feathered cowboy hat and a brand-new black jacket with “Great Western” printed across the back and “Hassie” stitched on the front —for his wife, fellow Yellowstone star Hassie Harrison —Ryan Bingham stood and watched the house lights fall over the Texas Gentlemen. Just a few moments earlier, the …
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A Hanson-branded beer. A barbecue-and-country combination in the heart of food-crazed Chicago. Wade Bowen and Micky and the Motorcars in headlining spots. These are three selling points some organizers of country and roots-music festivals are pointing to this summer to showcase their events as the market flirts with saturation across …
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