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Giddens & Robinson, ... Crow (****1/2): What's most striking is the palpable sense of joy in every second of these performances. Beyond that, there's the scholarship and depth of connection to this music and their profound understanding of why these are their stories to tell authoritatively.

How many times have you streamed our new song today? 🦅 👮🏻

A. Flynn & Riveters, ... Sunshine (****): Another alt-country triumph in a resurgent year for the form, this crew foregrounds the queer and the twangy elements in their songwriting and aesthetic, and the album's all the richer for that purposeful, confident choice.

Justin Robinson and I recorded “John Henry” because every time he and I and Dom Flemons played with Joe Thompson he would start by asking what we wanted to play – which was a rhetorical question because he would start with ‘John Henry’ every single time!

@fancyhagood.bsky.social ’s new song "Let It Rain,” is a heartfelt thank you to his ex for the lessons learned in their relationship. We’re talking love and queer visibility in country music on my Substack, Untethered Southerner.
untetheredsoutherner.substack.com/p/fancy-hago...

Alright, I guess it's time to go back to work. Some really exciting shows coming up in the next month.

If you wanna grab tickets, there are links on my website to all of these shows with little graphics you can download and text to your friends & say, "Hey lil gai boi, wanna hear banjo or nah?"

Toronto
Horseshoe Tavern
April 27th!

Pls tell your Canadian pals.

www.showclix.com/tickets/Adee...

Something I’m working on

Tonight! Hope you can join us.

Every No. 1 Single of the Seventies: Charley Pride, “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone” We meet Charley Pride during his superstar era.

Charley Pride's interpretive gifts somehow made every one of his hits sound like a revelation: www.countryuniverse.net/2025/04/08/e...

Issue #94: What Comes After Rage Musical medicine at the 2025 Big Ears Festival

i wrote about my first big ears and feeling a lot of tenderness at a time when we really need it www.dontrocktheinbox.com/p/issue-94-w...

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

On the left, a donkey peers into the camera. On the right, a white man with classes, suspenders, and a straw hat plays a blue and red accordion while musing on the donkey

@willicarlisle.bsky.social announces his new album, Winged Victory, a meditation on feeling poised at the edge of the apocalypse

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Our overall ethos is that country music is worth serious consideration as a part of our shared culture, and country music has *never* been the exclusive purview of straight, white, Christian, southern men (or the few women who think their complicity with such men will save them).

Pretty sizable uptick in new followers since Kevin kicked off our Every #1 Single features for both the 70s and 00s.

So, welcome, y'all!

A short thread to give a quick overview of what we're about here.

We're the longest-running country blog on the whole wide internet. (1/x)

My hosting plan for Adobe & Teardrops expires on Monday and I won't be renewing it. I've started a second job on top of my day job and @RainbowRodeo.bsky.social is feeling like a very urgent project right now. Please follow me there for my album reviews!

@countryuniverse.bsky.social check it out, Raul Malo of the Mavericks throwing shade at Wallen.

Blown away by this duet from @chibidalartiste on TikTok. Please keep sharing your music!

One week from today! Hope you can join us.

Boston artists are 'Singing For Trans Rights' as a means for survival Jessye DeSilva, Hawk in the Nest, and other musicians will perform Friday at Passim to support Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.

This Friday myself and some wonderful friends will be playing Club Passim in Cambridge, to raise funds for @masstpc.org
There is also a livestream ticket option for folks out of town.
Read more about the show and get your tickets (link in article)

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O.E. Lloyd, ... Myself (****): I'm a sucker for song structure. It's her mastery of form that's most immediately striking about Lloyd's writing, to the point that it was several listens before I could even hone in on the withering wit, twangy as all hell production, and vulnerable singing.

Everyone who's ever done business anywhere with anything will tell you that diversity improves sales, which is how you know that racism is as irrational as it is impractical.

Go Back and Fetch It | Kristina R. Gaddy | University of North Carolina Press For the first time, this groundbreaking songbook collaboration by music writer Kristina R. Gaddy and Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens makes twenty exampl...

It will be out in September, and you can pre-order it now from @uncpress.bsky.social — use 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30% #GoBackandFetchIt

The reason is: I’m playing a beach house concert in Stinson Beach 4/26, 7:30 pm. it’s special and intimate: I’d like you to come. Tix are VERY limited, $40/ea, reserve via Paypal to brucewagman@gmail.com, Venmo to @Bruce-Wagman

Catch Up Vol 10 Bringing you Weekly BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and Disabled Country Music News, New Releases and resources.

Catching you up on all the latest releases, & news you really care about. Like what you see? Get it direct to you inbox. www.countryeverywhere.com/newsletter/c...

Catch Up Vol 10 Bringing you Weekly BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and Disabled Country Music News, New Releases and resources.

Catching you up on all the latest releases, & news you really care about. Like what you see? Get it direct to you inbox. www.countryeverywhere.com/newsletter/c...

Today and every day, Rainbow Rodeo upholds and honors trans voices and our strength.

Listen to Rainbow Rodeo (episode 27) for messages of resistance and bravery.

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Thank you @countryeverywhere.bsky.social for adding @aflynn-theriveters.bsky.social title track "Good Morning Sunshine" to your playlist! Album is out this Friday 4/4 on Blackbird Record Label! www.countryeverywhere.com?335a9c01_pag...

White text at top reads Episode 29: Angie K. Center photo shows a woman in a black sleeveless shirt standing in profile in a field. Her hair is bobbed just below the ears. Bottom text says Rainbow Rodeo: Episode 29.

Angie K and I scooch up to our mics to discuss her new self-titled EP. We talk about Angie's incredible year: she got engaged, she's played the Grand Ole Opry twice, and Angie K was absolutely released on her terms.

Listen on your favorite app!

C. Staton, ... Roots (***): One of the all-time greats is in fine form on a collection that sounds like vintage Stax southern soul. The songs here just aren't consistently worthy of her talents, though she does elevate even the weakest material with her power and conviction. She's a treasure.