Jewly Hight
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"I did Nashville the Nashville way for so long ... with very little results," Guyton tells NPR. "So why am I holding out just in case?"
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Professional songwriting sessions in Nashville can often have the appearance of a lively social call. What happens when that work has to go virtual?
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Dierks Bentley and his band tapped into a long tradition of comedy and country music when they created a parody group to open for them on tour. Now, Hot Country Knights has a debut album.
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While Nashville's standard studio music-making processes remain at a standstill, here's another roundup of compelling new and recent music from Tré Burt, Paul Burch, Marshall Chapman and more.
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The Nashville music community remains holed up at home, but spring still brings new music from artists like Jessi Alexander, Sarah Siskind and Kandace Springs.
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After spending many years tracing the outline of a music career, Diffie finally found success in the early '90s with songs featuring his patented honky-tonk attitude.
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The fact that Nashville's famously bustling live music scene has temporarily gone silent makes this an opportune time to enjoy a round-up of Nashville voices.
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"I went through a breakup of a 15-year relationship. And my therapy on an everyday basis is to go in and write songs," Brandy Clark says of her string- and horn-laden album, Your Life is a Record.
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Singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt grew up in a conservative Catholic family in Georgia. On her debut album, she sings about the pressure she felt growing up to hide her sexuality from her family.
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Olney had a gift for character — creating them in his lyrics, inhabiting them in his performances — and that literarily bent musical talent made him a fixture in Nashville for decades.