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Your Country's Right Here: Risa Binder Makes Country Pop

posted: November 1, 2012

Risa Binder not only lives in Nashville, she revels in it. The country-pop singer songwriter may have grown up in Columbia, Maryland, but her heart was in Music City, after she found Loretta Lynn and…
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Your Country's Right Here: Amber Rubarth Wows at FloydFest

posted: August 9, 2012

The headliners at this year’s FloydFest”including Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Ricky Skaggs, Brandi Carlile, and the Drive-By Truckers”were  as amazing as you’d expect from internationally known and much-lauded musicians. But the…
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Your Country's Right Here: Mountain Heart Reaches New Musical Peak

posted: February 9, 2012

It’s difficult to remember the last time I was as excited about a band as I am about Mountain Heart. So much for the impartial journalist, right?  But really, if I hear one more band…
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Sound And Vision: Strange Bedfellows — The Best of Music's Unlikely Collaborations

posted: December 16, 2011

“I get high with a little help from my friends,” Ringo Starr sang on the Beatles‘ 1967 classic. These days, so do many of music’s top stars. Two’s company, and so is three and sometimes…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: When Rockers Go Bluegrass

posted: March 23, 2011

It seems there’s a worrying trend these days wherein more and more veteran rockers seem to be turning to bluegrass. We’re using the term turning to bluegrass here in the interest of fairness, since the…
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Day 2: Future of Music Coalition's Policy Summit 2010

posted: October 6, 2010

The second day of The Future of Music Coalition’s Policy Summit covered a ton of topics for musicians and music entrepreneurs alike. On paper, some of the sessions may have seemed unrelated, but it was…
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