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Rising country music star Charley Crockett played a show at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Asheville recently, and WNCW’s Joe Kendrick and Sean Rubin travelled there to catch up with him for an interview and session with his band. In this interview and live session, recorded on the afternoon of his show, Charley talks about his experiences with the late James Hand, who Charley pays tribute to on his latest album, 10 For Slim, as well as how he spent his pandemic year, about comparisons to fellow Rio Grande valley native Freddie Fender, and more. Plus, Charley and his band play a couple of th...

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Athy murder appeal judges may step aside after realising they prosecuted and defended appellant Seamus Morgan Court of appeal  '); Two judges who heard an appeal against an Athy man's murder conviction may have to step away from the case after they discovered that one of them prosecuted the killer while the other defended him on a previous murder charge. Seamus Morgan (53) last week appealed to the three-judge Court of Appeal against his conviction for murdering dissident republican Larry 'Bomber' Keane. Morgan was previously found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter for the kill...

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If you spoke his name above a whisper/ He'd just disappear into the hot Texas night," Crockett laments on the introductory track to his first of two planned albums in 2021, a tribute to the late Texas country icon. While Crockett previously played bluesman, honky-tonk caller, and folk singer-songwriter, 2020's Welcome to Hard Times asserted him as a shapeshifter – always bending to the sounds of human experience. On 10 for Slim, that versatility enlightens his grief. Crockett waltzes through compositions by "the real deal," as Willie Nelson described Hand, not only with the confidence of ...