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American Back Roads roundup April 2021 The times right for another roundup of cool new releases – mostly Americana with a range of reissues. Author: By Bruce Sylvester The times right for another roundup of cool new releases – mostly Americana with a range of reissues.    Rev. Peytons Big Damn Bands Dance Songs for Hard Times(Family Owned Records/Thirty Tigers). With frenzied vocals and backwoods juke joint guitar, “No Tellin When,” a Covid-era song of separation, comes across lik...

Dudley Magistrates Court. A MAN from Netherton has been jailed for a total of 22 weeks after pleading guilty to theft. Adrian Bill, from Cole Street was jailed by magistrates at Dudley Magistrates Court for six weeks after stealing toiletries on April 15 from Wilkos in Rowley Regis. The 43-year-old was previously handed a suspended jail term on February 2 for four theft offences, so will be serve a total of 22 weeks in jail. Also, at Dudley Magistrates Court, a woman from Wordsley plea...

Dudley Magistrates Court A WOMAN from Wordsley has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer by beating. Natalie Colbourne from Brierley Hill Road admitted to assaulting Mark Davies by beating and damaging his microwave, coffee machine and plates. The 24-year-old was ordered to pay a total compensation of £100 and was given a community order. Also, at Dudley Magistrates Court, a man from Netherton has been jailed for a total 22 weeks after pleading guilty to theft. Adrian Bill, f...

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February 19, 2021 GMT FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2017, file photo, author Jesmyn Ward attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York. An acclaimed author, a prolific songwriter and a group of small-town quilters are among this year’s recipients of the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Awards. The award for excellence in literature goes to Ward, who received the National Book Award for her novels “Salvage the Bones” and “Sing, Unburied, Sing.” The awards will b...

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — An acclaimed author, a prolific songwriter and a group of small-town quilters are among this years recipients of the Mississippi Governors Arts Awards. This is the 33rd year for the awards, and a ceremony is usually held in Jackson. Gov. Tate Reeves has limited the size of gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic, so the ceremony was recorded. It is set to be televised at 8 p.m. Friday on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. The Mississippi Arts Commission...

First look inside the luxury homes being built in the garden of a derelict Cardiff mansion And the former building itself will become 10 beautiful apartments CGI of row of new houses in the garden suggest how they will look once completed (Image: CPS Homes) There are always big stories on WalesOnline - dont miss any with our daily emailInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletter...

Chancey Bush/The Gazette Thomas Dawson plays music on the keyboards in his studio at his home in Colorado Springs. “He’s an unbelievably talented and modest person, and his level of talent is almost otherworldly,” Perry Sanders Jr., a local attorney, says of Dawson. Sanders, who is also a musician, adds of Dawson: “He’s my favorite person to do music with.” Chancey Bush/The Gazette

Thomas Dawson sits at one of four studios inside his home in Colorado Springs. Dawson is the musical director for the legendary Commodores. He also is the entertainment director at Springs Orleans restaurant in downtown Colorado Springs, where he regularly played piano for the last eight years until the pandemic struck. “I miss the interaction of playing for people at restaurants,” he says. Chancey Bush/The Gazette

The Commodores keyboardist and musical director, Thomas Dawson, has lived in Colorado Springs for a decade. He composes music for sound healing, works in his recording studio on big-name projects