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Ryan Bingham Looks Fear in the Eye
Ryan Bingham’s tried on plenty of hats over the years, from bull-riding rodeo kid to day laborer and troubadour by night, recording artist on a label roster that boasted Lucinda Williams and Ryan...
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T. Graham Brown’s Forever Changed Leads to First Grammy Nod
T. Graham Brown talks like he’d rather be living off the grid. He doesn’t have a cell phone, he jokes, because he tossed his cell phone in a lake. What’s more, he claims to only have gotten a computer...
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Brandy Clark Doesn’t Mind If You’ve Never Heard of Her
Apparently the only thing that can slow Brandy Clark down right now is the flu. When she calls for an interview, she’s been laid up at home in Nashville all week, losing precious songwriting time....
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Gretchen Peters Paints a Visceral Picture in Blackbirds
Within the last year, Gretchen Peters has crossed off some whopping entries from her to-do list. “I don’t think there’s anything left,” she chuckles, perched on a conference room couch at ASCAP’s...
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Rhiannon Giddens Interprets the Women Who Inspire Her
Over the last decade, progressively larger roots audiences have heard Rhiannon Giddens apply the operatically-trained, thrillingly-controlled storminess and sultriness of her soprano to a striking...
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Nora Jane Struthers Leaves Old Time in Her Wake
The path from cozy folk venues and Appalachian string band gatherings to rock clubs isn’t necessarily a smooth or direct one, as Nora Jane Struthers can attest. Her reputation as an old-time-inclined...
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Brandi Carlile Keeps You on the Edge of Your Seat
There’s always been urgency to the music that Brandi Carlile makes with her longtime collaborators the Hanseroth twins, a channeling of bone-deep wounds and ecstatic pleasures that can accompany...
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Canadian Duo Whitehorse Revel in the Darkness
The first question posed during CMT Edge’s conference call with Whitehorse comes from the duo’s lead guitarist, Luke Doucet: “Is Melissa on the line yet?” Really, Doucet’s the one with the more...
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Kristin Diable Creates a Luxurious, Intimate Sound
If you encountered Kristin Diable a few years ago, you saw a singer-songwriter content to tote her acoustic guitar onstage alone and let her introspective writing and confiding delivery carry the...
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Humming House Hopes You Dance to Revelries
Right out of college, singer-songwriter Justin Wade Tam undertook a seriously high-concept musical project with his then-active folk duo, Quote. It was more than an album — it was a veritable coffee...
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