Dacey Orr Sivewright

Music
Add These Southern Music Festivals to Your Bucket List
Whether you’re welcoming spring with jazz in New Orleans or sweating out summer on a farm in Tennessee, these music events are worth putting on your dream calendar

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Twenty-Five Years of Wide Open Spaces
Looking back on the Chicks’ breakout 1998 album and a quarter-century of chasing the highest stakes

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The Year’s Top Southern Albums
Twenty great listens from 2022 that deserve a spot in your playlist

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Fall’s Best New Southern Music
Whether traditional country sounds, classic soul, buoyant folk-pop, or good old rock and roll, these ten new albums will keep your fall humming

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Fall Fests for Southern Music Lovers
Whether you’re hopping from stage to stage in Texas, making a “Pilgrimage” to Tennessee, or grooving for a good cause in West Virginia, the arrival of cooler weather brings a stellar roster of live music gatherings

Food & Drink
How Mashama Bailey Makes Fish & Grits
The ‘Outstanding Chef’ winner shares her take on a Georgia classic—a staple on the menu at her new Austin outpost, the Grey Market

Music
Chatham Rabbits Ride Again
Listen to an exclusive preview of the rising North Carolina band’s new album, If You See Me Riding By, and hear from the husband-and-wife duo about life at their farm, making friends with fans, and running a “musical food truck”

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Rising Country Star Hailey Whitters Brings It Home on Raised
A conversation with the Nashville singer-songwriter on family, farm country, and what she learned from her grandfather’s sod business

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Band of Horses Embrace Life’s Contrasts on the New Album Things Are Great
Catching up with frontman Ben Bridwell about the band’s chart-topping single, its first album in more than five years, and the draw of the Lowcountry

Food & Drink
A Spicy Italian Spin on Stewed Okra
Not a fan of the summer produce star? Chef Mark Bolchoz’s take just might convert you

Listen Now
Watchhouse—Formerly Known as Mandolin Orange—Returns with New Music
The husband-and-wife duo readies a new album—and shares two exclusive new live performance videos

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Now Listening: Greta Gaines’s Pale Star
The singer-songwriter and passionate angler honors her late collaborator on her first album since 2017

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Listen Now: New Music from Natalie Hemby
The prolific Nashville songwriter, collaborator, and member of the Highwomen announces her new album, Pins and Needles, and shares the title track

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Listen Now: New Music from Maggie Rose
Hear an exclusive premiere of the dynamic singer-songwriter’s “Are We There Yet,” steeped in the sounds of Muscle Shoals

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New Music: Watch Marty Stuart Cover Tom Petty
See the video for “Fault Lines,” the latest release from the country stalwart’s new twenty-song digital album, Songs I Sing in the Dark

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New Music: A West Virginia Road Warrior Gets His Due
Hear “Coming Down,” a live show favorite from songwriter John R. Miller

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Now Listening: New Music from Allison Russell
On her debut solo album, Outside Child, the Our Native Daughters member shares a deeply painful past—and the healing power of music and community

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Listen Now: New Music from Cedric Burnside
The Mississippi Hill Country bluesman shares “The World Can Be So Cold,” from his forthcoming album, I Be Trying

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Two-Stepping Through Texas with Miranda Lambert
The country star and fellow songwriter Jon Randall on Lone Star dance halls, homegrown tomatoes, and their stripped-down new album, The Marfa Tapes

Song Premiere
Hear the Title Track from Soul Phenom Robert Finley’s Sharecropper’s Son
The 67-year-old Louisiana native makes up for lost time on his forthcoming Easy Eye Sound release