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Concert Review: Sierra Ferrell at Roadrunner — Blending the Rustic and Divine

September 14, 2024
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In performance, singer Sierra Ferrell offered a more expansive vision of her spirited and spiritual approach to country music.

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Music Review: Jason Isbell, Laid-Back — More Country Than Country-Rock

February 29, 2016
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Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).

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