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Monday:  10 For Slim: Charley Crockett Sings James Hand A moving tribute to Charley’s mentor, honky-tonk country singer James “Slim” Hand, who died last June. “I’m telling you,” Crockett said, “I didn’t meet Hank Williams, but I did meet James Hand.” Tuesday: Fruit Bats – The Pet Parade Eric D. Johnson’s latest LP is his 8th one, and addresses what he refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence. Produced by Josh Kaufman (who along with Eric and Anais Mitchell comprise Bonny Light Horseman.) Wednesday: The Exciting Sounds of the Menahan Street Band The Daptone Re...

The story behind new podcast The Apology Line sounds like film noir, but it's all real. Host Marissa Bridge recalls how her late husband, conceptual artist Allan Bridge, became dangerously infatuated with a 1980 project wherein he set up a toll-free phone line that allowed people to anonymously repent for past trespasses on an answering machine, with compilations of those messages released to the public. The calls ranged from mundane to harrowing, and the concept eventually coalesced around a strange community of regulars, including lonely hearts, pranksters and a menacing figure that Bridge...

Mountain Stage Birds of Chicago appear on this week's episode of Mountain Stage hitting stations across the country on Friday, January 15, 2021. JT Nero and Allison Russell release music as Birds of Chicago, who made their third appearance on Mountain Stage in 2019, as we’ll hear on this weekend's encore broadcast, hitting NPR Music stations starting January 15. Joined by guitarist Steve Dawson, our Song of the Week is Birds of Chicago's "Lodestar," which appears on Love in Wartime, the band's 2018 full-length release. 1 of 5  — San Fermin, 2019 Indie-pop ensem...

Eric D. Johnson's Fruit Bats have returned with plans for a new album titled The Pet Parade, which is set to arrive through Merge Records on...

Top 10 country, folk, and Americana albums of 2020 Stuart Munro “LOGAN LEDGER” Logan Ledger Every year there’s one, it seems, one that comes out of nowhere to grab hold of you and shake you until you’re giddy. This year, Logan Ledger’s self-titled debut, a hooky, twangy clutch of Orbison-channeling country noir, was the one. “PAULINE” Ashley Ray On this fierce collection of gutbucket country, Ashley Ray tells stories with unapologetic candor about herself and her people, from her Kansas beginnings (“Pauline” is her grandmother) to the time she put in waiting ...