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JACKSON, Tenn. -- Tennessee Songwriters Week is returning to the Hub City and neighboring counties for the preliminary rounds.

This month's edition of Paste's vinyl column looks at one-step pressings of albums by The Boss and Monk, and an updated LP storage solution.

The 250 Greatest Guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Prince, St. Vincent, H.E.R. and More

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Peter Case - Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John - Amazon.com Music

(Update: Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder's collaborative record won Best Traditional Blues Album at the 2023 GRAMMYs). *** “I met Ry when he was 17. And what was

Santa Cruz continues to be an unlikely outpost for the rich Americana sound that Sleepy John Sandidge made possible. This weekend, he leaves the stage with a “Locals Only” mini music festival at the county fairgrounds.

Tom Rush made his name in the sixties folk revival; he is a peer of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen, and Judy Collins. He turns 81 on Tuesday. Hes still performing. Hes still writing. Hes still touring. Ive loved his music for a long time. Incorporating notes from my 2011 interview with him, I want to take the occasion to celebrate his birthday with a slightly expanded and revised

WBBJ TV July 22, 2021 The state presented a Tennessee Music Pathways marker to late blues legend Hammie Nixon. Nixon was a Brownsville native and a world-renowned blues musician. Nixon, known mostly for his skills on the harmonica, touched the lives of many with his music. “These blues musicians were poets and narrating stories of rural and southern people, sometimes forgotten people. It’s important that the stories, the voices, are heard,” said Zanice Bond, a professor at Tuskegee Univer...