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Sturgill Simpson
About John Sturgill Simpson is an American country music singer-songwriter and actor. As of June 2024, he has released eight albums as a solo artist. Simpson’s style has been met with critical favor and frequent comparisons to outlaw country. Albums/Songs: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music A Sailor’s Guide to Earth The Ballad of Dood &…
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Jason Isbell
About Michael Jason Isbell is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He is known for his solo career, his work with the band The 400 Unit, and as a member of Drive-By Truckers for six years, from 2001 to 2007. Isbell has won six Grammy Awards. Albums/Songs: Southeastern Something More Than Free Live at the Shoals…
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The Avett Brothers
About The Avett Brothers are an American folk rock band from Concord, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott Avett and Seth Avett along with Bob Crawford and Joe Kwon. Mike Marsh (drums), Tania Elizabeth (fiddle) and Bonnie Avett-Rini (piano) are touring members of the band. Albums/Songs: Dear Jerry: Let’s Play…
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Gillian Welch
About Gillian Howard Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, bluegrass, country and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as “at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms.” Albums/Songs: The Palms, Davis CA…
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Townes Van Zandt
About John Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as “Pancho and Lefty”, “For the Sake of the Song”, “If I Needed You”, “Snake Mountain Blues”, “Our Mother the Mountain”, “Waitin’ Round to Die”, and “To Live Is to Fly”. His musical style has often been described as melancholic and…
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Emmylou Harris
About Emmylou Harris is an American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and activist. She is recognized for having a consistent artistic direction. Harris is considered one of the leading music artists behind the country rock genre in the 1970s and the Americana genre in the 1990s. Her music united both country and rock audiences in live…
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Willie Nelson
About Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was one of the main figures of the outlaw country subgenre that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. The critical success of his album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and…
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Maurane
About Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane, was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress. Albums/Songs: Toi du monde Nougaro ou l’espérance en l’Homme Danser Fais-moi une fleur Maurane L’Heureux Tour Ami ou ennemi Les 50 plus belles chansons Quand l’humain danse Si aujourd’hui Best Of Maurane Maurane sur scène + duos & raretés Une fille…
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Marcel Amont
About Marcel Amont was a French singer of the 1960s and 1970s. Amont also recorded in Occitan and promoted Bearn culture from the 1950s. Albums/Songs: Marcel Amont Les Plus Grands Succès – 4 – Nos chansons de leurs 20 ans Marcel Amont Heritage – Escamillo – Polydor (1956-1957) Amont-Tour Heritage – Bleu, Blanc, Blond –…
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Françoise Hardy
About Françoise Madeleine Hardy was a French singer-songwriter and actress who was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in French yé-yé music and became a cultural icon in France and internationally. In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian,…