A Thousand Paths to Mountain Music
Carol Rifkin is an expert on mountain music from many angles. She sings and plays it, she writes about it, and she’s the host…
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Up-Tempo, Down River
Jordan Okrend manages to have it both ways. He’s a pop artist, but one who incorporates more ambitious forms into his original music without…
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Smoking the Blues Scene
Cigar-box guitars are very much in vogue now; it’s not at all unusual to see a nationally touring act take the stage with a…
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Glam Dynamics
Led by husband and wife Tony Tyler (guitar, vocals) and Dani Jaye (violin, vocals), St. Petersburg, Florida-based Come Back Alice evokes the arena-rock party…
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Genius Child
Sidney Outlaw is a supremely accomplished vocalist who’s high in demand. Born and raised in Brevard, the Grammy-nominated singer has more than two dozen…
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What He Found in the Woods
Hendersonville guitarist Eric Congdon has been recording and releasing albums since 2006, when he made his solo record debut, Green River. Over the years,…
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Pursuing the American(a) Dream
Lee Ann Womack burst onto the music scene in the late 1990s, at a time when trends favored her classic-country sound. She was nominated…
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“Songs About Questioning”
Born and raised in Bristol, Tennessee, a town sometimes described as the birthplace of country, Amythyst Kiah grew up expected to play music. She…
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Filling Her Own Shoes
These days, Fayssoux Starling McClean can most often be seen and heard throughout South Carolina’s upstate and in the Hendersonville/Tryon area. But in the…
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She Writes the Songs
Sarah Siskind co-leads the roots-rock trio SUNLINER with her husband Travis Book of the nationally touring newgrass quintet Infamous Stringdusters. However, Siskind established herself…
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