Ruston Kelly took his seat in the middle of the Bluebird Cafe, the tiny strip-mall bar-and-grill at the outer reaches of Nashville that serves as one of the most important proving grounds in the world of songwriting. His choices for a venue to release Pale, Through the Window in early …
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One night, sitting at the piano, Ruston Kelly found God. “It was like a mushroom trip without the mushrooms,” he tells Rolling Stone. “In a moment of deep gratitude for just simply being able to play and sing, it happened. I wanted to know if God was like, a real …
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There are a few lines on Ruston Kelly’s new album that practically tell the whole story: “My marriage ended and I moved up north to mend,” he sings on “Mending Song.” “Was then I heard the words of my father/Have faith, there’s no storm that doesn’t pass.” On a recent …
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Get ready to have your emotions wrecked, because Ruston Kelly has new music on the way. On Tuesday, the singer-songwriter announced his third album, The Weakness, and released the video for its powerful title track. Due out April 7, The Weakness follows Kelly’s 2020 album Shape and Destroy, which was …
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Ruston Kelly can still vividly recall hearing his father Tim sing and perform for the family when he was younger. It had an impact that’s being felt all these years later, when the younger Kelly is a working singer-songwriter with successful solo albums and tours to his name. “That’s the …
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When she finished recording her new album, Sara Evans decided to re-watch Mad Men and found herself thinking about embodying a character like the impeccably dressed, mysterious Betty Draper. “It came to me: ‘You know what? I should wear wigs for the album artwork because I’m copying other artists,’” says …
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