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Matt Hendrickson

Arts & Culture

Music Must-List: Summer Festivals

These seven Southern festivals will keep your summer rocking through Labor Day

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First Listen: New Music From Darrell Scott

Stream a song from his new album, The Couchville Sessions

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First Listen: Stop Light Observations

Stream a song from the band’s upcoming album Toogoodoo

Interview

Catching Up With Loretta Lynn

With a new album and more than five decades in music, the four-time Grammy winner looks back at her pioneering journey

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The Breakout Voice: Chris Stapleton

Chris Stapleton has become country music’s most surprising new star—and has sent a shock wave through Nashville

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The Legend and the Renegade

A conversation with an outlaw icon and a modern Nashville rebel

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The New Outlaws: Young Guns

A dozen rising acts shaking up the country scene

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First Listen: Star & Micey

Local boys make Memphis blues sound positively ebullient on debut album

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First Listen: Judah and The Lion

Sure, it’s still the middle of winter, but let us preemptively nominate the Song of the Summer

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First Listen: Luther Dickinson’s New Solo Album

Blues & Ballads contains 21 songs, and there’s no filler

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First Listen: The Cactus Blossoms’ ‘You’re Dreaming’

Minnesota might be several hundred miles from the Mason-Dixon line, but the Cactus Blossoms craft a vintage country sound akin to those other brother duos, Louvin and Everly

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Ten Must-See Southern Music Venues

Ten great venues to put on your must-visit bucket list

Artists

Nathaniel Rateliff: Soul Searcher

With a knack for authentic songwriting and a voice that will move you, the artist has exploded onto the national stage — and given an old sound a burst of new energy

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Dylan LeBlanc: Redemption Songs

The artist returns with an album steeped in the power of renewal

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2015’s Best Southern Music

It’s been an unbelievable year for Southern albums, songs, and artists

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Lucinda Williams: Memory Lane

The musician plumbs a beautiful sadness on The Ghosts of Highway 20

Artists

Ten Tom Petty Songs You Should Know

Warren Zanes, the biographer behind Petty, selects a playlist of the musician’s lesser-known numbers

Alison Krauss and the Return of the Cox Family

A conversation with the bluegrass superstar about her love of the Cox Family, AC/DC, and her own upcoming solo album

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Patty Griffin on Her New Album, Turning 50, and Dirty Jokes

Listen to a song from the singer's tenth album

Music

Don Henley’s Next Act

The legendary musician taps his Texas roots for his first solo album in more than a decade