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MerleFest 2013 Lineup Announced
MerleFest 2013 Lineup Announced
MerleFest 2013 Lineup Announced
The Charlie Daniels Band and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are headed to MerleFest 2013, which is slated for April 25-28, 2013, in Wilkesboro, N.C. The four-day festival boasts performances by an estimated 90 artists including Rhonda Vincent, Tift Merritt, Michael Martin Murphey and Matraca Berg...
John Oates Rolls New Sound Into the Station
John Oates Rolls New Sound Into the Station
John Oates Rolls New Sound Into the Station
John Oates has the same kid smile and curly mop of thick, brown hair you remember from his Hall & Oates videos, but he also has a new sound that had the audience at Nashville's historic Station Inn hollering in the hardly-even-any-standing-room space. A...
Tift Merritt Moves Beyond ‘Country’ Label
Tift Merritt Moves Beyond ‘Country’ Label
Tift Merritt Moves Beyond ‘Country’ Label
Tift Merritt's new album 'Over the Moon' may be labeled as country by some, but the artist herself denies that categorization. The album, produced by Tucker Martine who has worked with Bill Frisell, the Decemberists, and Spoon, has a mix of sounds that pull from rock, soul, folk and yes, some country, but it doesn't belong to any one format...
Tift Merritt Is Over the ‘Moon’ for Her New Album
Tift Merritt Is Over the ‘Moon’ for Her New Album
Tift Merritt Is Over the ‘Moon’ for Her New Album
Before the advent of burning music on CDs and iPods, people assembled their playlists of songs on cassette tapes. Tift Merritt once made mixtapes herself, particularly of her early music, and had also received them from other people when she was younger...