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In advance of a special guest appearance with The HercuLeons at 3rd and Lindsley, songwriting legend Dan Penn talks with contributor Ron Wynn about one of his favorite things to do: singing.

Most often, famous artists hire bands to help them sound good, but then there are bands that happen to include famous artists - bands more interested in that all-for-one energy. That’s what I felt as Nashville’s newest high-level collaborative project, a six-piece fronted by John Cowan and Andrea Zonn called the HercuLeons took the stage at 3rd & Lindsley on a recent Tuesday night.

Tweet Share 2020 was an exceptionally chaotic year, for the world in general and the music community in particular, and 2021 doesn’t seem like it’ll be smooth sailing either. Yet a kaleidoscopic array of Nashville musicians continued to make great music in abundance. Below, the Scene’s music writers have nine new recommendations of recent releases for you. Note that Bandcamp Friday, the promotion in which the platform waives its cut of sales on the first Friday o...