Category: Nashville music
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Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss celebrate the season
Holiday shows abound in Nashville, including the annual Ryman residency of Amy Grant and Vince Gill. We particularly enjoyed shows by Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss at the Franklin Theater. Both artists offered a mix of holiday songs and their own hits. Entertaining and often moving.
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Cimarron 615: A new band with Poco roots
By Ken Paulson – A tribute to the late Rusty Young of Poco has paid a welcome dividend: the birth of a new band. Five artists, all with significant ties to Young and Poco, teamed up late last year for My Friend: A Tribute to Rusty Young on Blue Elan Records. The quintet, dubbed Cimarron…
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Steve Forbert is “Moving Through America” with stop in Nashville
By Ken Paulson – Words never spoken after a Steve Forbert concert: “I’m just so tired of him playing the same set on every tour.” Forbert, a former Nashville resident, returned to the town’s City Winery tonight with a performance that promoted his new album Moving Through America, but seemed to be largely fueled by…
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Review: Will Kimbrough’s fine “Spring Break”
By Paul T. Mueller –“Spring break” took on some added meaning early this year, when the pandemic shut down normal life and most people had to adjust to a strange new reality. For Nashville-based singer-songwriter Will Kimbrough, Spring Break turned out to be a good title for an album recorded during a forced hiatus from…