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Tweet Mickey GuytonPhoto: Phylicia J.L. Munn The past year has seen significant coverage about the scarcity of Black artists in country music. While this highlights crucial social and political problems, the music’s artistic significance often gets overlooked. And that’s a disservice to someone as gifted as Mickey Guyton, who dominated the 21st Annual Country Music Critics Poll with victories for Artist of the Year, Single of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. Ashley Mc...

Rolling Stone How Dave Cobb Adapted to Pandemic Recording, Found Inspiration with a Bee Gee Grammy-winning producer on recording Barry Gibb, why Dolly Parton made him nervous, and what to expect from Brandi Carlile’s next LP By Becky Fluke* Dave Cobb has a tradition for welcoming artists he’s producing to RCA Studio A. When they first set foot in the Nashville studio, he runs through a litany of the greats who’ve previously recorded there. Dolly Parton threw a wrench in t...

The Pop Culture That Helped Us Through the Year From murder mysteries to fingerpicked tunes, these cultural nuggets helped make 2020 just a little more bearable. By Portland Monthly Staff 12/24/2020 at 10:50am John Prine passed away this year due to complications from COVID-19.  Portland Monthly senior editor at-large Fiona McCann found solace in his songbook. 2020 was rough. Before we search for silver linings, lets just knock that one out: basic functioning was a feat for much of this yea...

Music came to the rescue in challenging year Songs inspired, united, and helped keep us sane By Jim Harrington, Mercury News Published: December 24, 2020, 6:02am Share: Patti Smiths 2020 version of "People Have the Power" was recorded in September and encouraged people to vote. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) It was an incredibly difficult year in so many ways. But it would have been even more difficult if there hadn’t been music to help us get through it all. Music was a...

  Article Contributed by Sacks and Company | Published on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 John Prine was named Artist of the Year at the 2020 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards. This is Prine’s fourth win in the category, following previous recognitions in 2005, 2017 and 2018. The accolade continues to celebrate an esteemed career for Prine, whose last recorded song and first #1 single, “I Remember Everything,” is nominated in two categories at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards: Best Am...