A young artist from Oklahoma, Jack Settle delivers a fresh take on a classic country sound with his crystal clear vocal tone and stellar band performances on Hickory Avenue.
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Amid regular protests against historic buildings being torn down in and around Nashville, the news that Puckett’s in Leiper’s Fork, TN had changed hands and changed names recently might strike some as alarming. New owner Aubrey Preston needs you to know that Fox & Locke, the music venue and eatery in the former Puckett’s building, isn’t erasing history but restoring it.
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This Friday is an especially rich date for live shows in Music City. Banditos are throwing an album release party outdoors at the Basement at 5 pm. Joshua Hedley and Dawn Landes are on the Musicians Corner bill at Centennial Park. Christina Vane celebrates her new CD at Dee’s. And I’m taking my kid to see Haim from the lawn at Ascend. But folks, none of that distracts from or overlaps with WMOT’s stacked lineup at lunch hour at Eastside Bowl. You can do it all.
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Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell and Yola have emerged as game-changing artists in roots music in recent years, and on Monday afternoon they were informed that they’d each earned three nominations for 2022’s Americana Awards, in the prestige categories of Song, Album and Artist of the Year.
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Check out two brand new live sets featuring Little Quirks and Sam Burchfield, today on Finally Friday from Home.
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We’ve proudly featured the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys recently as an exemplar of the old bluegrass ways playing out by young artists on a modern stage, but they’re not the only band sporting flamboyant vintage stage wear and a close-knit, hard-boned bluegrass sound. And that’s why we kick show #10 off with the new single from the Kody Norris Show out of East Tennessee.
LINER NOTES
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In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, singer-songwriter Margo Price remembers the early days of motherhood and marriage, their chaos compounded by a late-living musical lifestyle.
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Discover some of the best up and coming Nashville musicians.
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Influenced by the likes of Tom Petty, Wilco, Bob Dylan, and The National, Beau Jennings and the Tigers released their latest album Heavy Light back in March. WMOT is proud to premiere the new music video for the title track.
WMOT VIDEO: LIVE SESSIONS ON NPR MUSIC
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Watch Brandy Clark's full set from the AmericanaFest Day Stage at Eastside Bowl in Madison, TN. The 2022 Americana Honors and Awards nominations will be announced May 16, 2022 at 1 p.m. live on WMOT.
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Watch two brand new sets from home. Jeremy Garrett will be playing tracks from his new solo album Wild River, and Steve Dawson will play songs from his latest, Gone Long Gone, accompanied by Fats Kaplan.
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Watch our Wired In session with Colin Linden from our 2021 AmericaFest stage at Eastside Bowl in Madison, TN
News from WMOT
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Tanger Outlets Nashville will be the third Tanger Center in Tennessee
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Six of Tennessee's 11 Congressional delegation members voted against $40 billion in additional aid.
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The ruling makes permanent a July 202decision that blocked enforcement of the law just days after it took effect.
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Lewis says he thought he might never be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Brown University calculated how many fewer deaths would have occurred if 85 percent or more of each state’s population had chosen to get vaccinated.
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Yesterday was a bad day for Grubhub. The food delivery service launched a free lunch promotion for people in New York City. And spoiler alert: it backfired.
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The investigation targets online platforms including video-streaming site Twitch, messaging platform Discord and the anonymous message board 4chan.
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The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.
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