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Brandy Clark is playing for keeps this time

Produced by Brandi Carlile, the eponymous 11-song collection offers snapshots of Brandy Clark the person, not Brandy Clark the pen-for-hire.

May 18, 2023
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  • Brittney McKenna
Lainey Wilson performs "Grease" at the 58th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday, May 11, 2023, at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.

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Lainey Wilson and Chris Stapleton triumph at Academy of Country Music Awards

Lainey Wilson won album of the year for Bell Bottom Country and Chris Stapleton was named entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

May 12, 2023
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"I was told by the world I wasn't allowed to write classic country, even though I'd written so much of it and I loved doing it," Mya Byrne says of her new album, <em>Rhinestone Tomboy</em>, which melds her punk sensibility with polished songwriting

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How Mya Byrne paved her long, winding road to country music with grit and sparkle

Mya Byrne loved country music since her childhood in New Jersey. But it took years of searching and traveling to lead to the place where she could make her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy.

May 01, 2023
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  • Jewly Hight
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Neil Young and Snoop Dogg joined Willie Nelson on stage for a 90th birthday concert

17,000 fans turned up to the Hollywood Bowl for a concert by Willie Nelson and his famous friends. Owen Wilson, Helen Mirren, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Garner all did the introductions.

May 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
"We check in with each other all the time," says Michael Trotter Jr. of The War and Treaty. "I believe that what you hear with the record is a deeper understanding of who we are becoming to each other."

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The War and Treaty's songs of ardent commitment find deeper clarity on 'Lover's Game'

On the duo's latest album, its first full-length released on a major country label, Tanya and Michael Trotter Jr. sing piano-driven originals with a grown-up sense of devotion.

April 04, 2023
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  • Jewly Hight
"Hate on me," Jake Wesley Rogers sang on stage at the Love Rising benefit concert in Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on March 20. "You might as well hate the sun."

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  • Music Features

Visibility, with the volume up loud, in Tennessee

A pop critic looks at two benefit shows in Nashville that put a rainbow-hued spotlight on the way a buzzword like "visibility" can become more than symbolic, especially in moments of crisis.

March 26, 2023
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  • Ann Powers
Andrew Combs performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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Andrew Combs: Tiny Desk Concert

Watch the restless singer-songwriter in a set of penetrating new tunes, capped with a breathtaking love song.

March 15, 2023
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  • Tom Huizenga
Iris DeMent.

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Folk veteran Iris DeMent shows us the 'World' she's been workin' on

Over the last three decades, singer-songwriter Iris DeMent has gained a cult following of folk, gospel and country music fans.

February 26, 2023
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  • Clay Masters and
  • Cheryl Corley
Charley Crockett performs a Tiny Desk concert on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Charley Crockett: Tiny Desk Concert

In his vintage Stetson, the Texas troubadour performed a set of songs that find new meaning in familiar country, folk and blues forms.

February 24, 2023
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  • Jewly Hight
O'Connor won the National Junior Fiddle Championship four years in a row, 1974-77, in Weiser, Ida.

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Prodigious fiddler Mark O'Connor celebrates 50 years of music with memoir

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mark O'Connor about his memoir, Crossing Bridges, on his journey from multi-instrumentalist child prodigy to solo artist composing and performing on world stages.

February 15, 2023
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  • Olivia Hampton
Shania Twain, photographed walking the People's Choice Awards red carpet on Dec. 6, 2022 in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Shania Twain returns after a difficult pandemic with the beaming 'Queen of Me'

After a bad bout of COVID that had her fearing she'd lose her voice completely, the country-pop superstar is back with an album she says is determined to look on the bright side.

February 05, 2023
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  • Michel Martin and
  • Ana Perez
Missy Elliott, one of 14 artists announced as nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Feb. 1, 2023.

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Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson and more named 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees

As they have every year since 1986, members of the Hall will select from a group of nominees – though these days, the nominees tend to represent a wider spectrum of popular music.

February 01, 2023
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  • Lars Gotrich
Margo Price

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Margo Price embarks on a new, psychedelic journey on 'Strays'

The Nashville singer-songwriter tells the story of the mind-altering trip that set the stage for her latest album, and changed her life.

January 13, 2023
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  • Raina Douris and
  • John Myers
S.G. Goodman's <em>Teeth Marks</em> is one of NPR Music's favorite roots albums of the year.

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The Best Roots Music of 2022

This year artists working within the orbit of the unstable category "roots music" got personal even as they explored complex cultural lineages and challenged the rules of established scenes and forms.

December 19, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
S.G. Goodman's <em>Teeth Marks</em> is one of NPR Music's favorite roots albums of the year.

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  • Music Lists

The Best Roots Music of 2022

This year artists working within the orbit of the unstable category "roots music" got personal even as they explored complex cultural lineages and challenged the rules of established scenes and forms.

December 19, 2022
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