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- Music, The Listener Oct 19, 2020
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Eighteen years ago, Tift Merritt made an almost perfect country song
“Trouble Over Me” isn’t exactly about love, but its emotional ambiguity is what makes it so relatable.
- Music, Music Review May 1, 2020
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Country mainstay Pam Tillis hits her stride on Looking for a Feeling
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 24, 2020
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Hardy is the new, loud voice of modern pop-country
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Dec 16, 2019
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Hard-working country rockers the Moondogs never released their only album
This beloved band gigged hard for a few years in the late 70s and early 80s, and they’ve played a reunion show as recently as 2012.
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Oct 9, 2019
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Picked clean on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Nashville artist Dean Tomasek.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Oct 8, 2019
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Countrified rockers Possum River emerged from the breakup of the Cryan’ Shames
They didn't enjoy the success of the garage-pop band that gave them two members, but after 48 years one of their songs turned up on Stranger Things.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2018
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Longtime Carol’s house band Diamondback brings new fans and old regulars to the resuscitated country bar
Last week Carol's Pub reopened under new ownership, reestablishing Uptown's last surviving link to the era when the neighborhood was known as "Hillbilly Heaven."
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Oct 23, 2018
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The Wildwood Pickers took their bluegrass around the world—and worked as a house band at Dollywood
Today the Pickers are best remembered as an early proving ground for one of their founders, guitar virtuoso Muriel Anderson.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 5, 2018
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Gene Barge blew his sax on some of the wildest R&B hits of the 60s
The Blues Festival pays tribute to the 91-year-old “Daddy G” with a set with by his longest-running band, the Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 19, 2017
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RIP Trey Gruber of promising young Chicago band Parent
Plus: New recordings on the way from the Father Costume—and a new album already here from Dan Whitaker & the Shinebenders
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2017
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An overlooked 1972 cut from singular southern soul singer Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander's single "Mr. John" didn't go anywhere in 1972, but it still sounds great on a recent reissue.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2017
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Cowboy poetry, the decline of the critic, Lil Wayne’s boring prison memoir, and more: the week in music writing
The Reader collects some of the best and brightest bits from the past week's music writing.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2016
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Cook County doubles down: Rap, rock, country, and DJ sets are not ‘fine arts,’ not exempt from amusement tax
At Cook County's latest hearing on its small-venue amusement-tax exemption, the government dealt several businesses a blow that could eventually cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 14, 2016
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Dan Whitaker & the Shinebenders work hard for hard-working country fans
Plus: ESS hosts its ninth annual Experimental Garage Sale, Myth Fest debuts with an ambitious bill of international electronic music, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2014
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Gig poster of the week: An all-day country billboard
This week's gig poster was designed by local artist Ryan Duggan.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Thu 1/17: Sweet Home Chicago: The History of America's Candy Capital, Cadre, and Willy Mason
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 17, 2013
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2012
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Wednesday: Veteran Texas roots rocker Ray Wylie Hubbard at SPACE
Ray Wylie Hubbard plays SPACE in support of his tough new album, The Grifter's Hymnal
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Guy Clark, "L.A. Freeway"
Guy Clark's "L.A. Freeway" from the 1975 album, Old No. 1, is today 12 O'Clock Track
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 24, 2010
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More Treasures From the Old Byways of American Music
With three recent releases, "Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939," "I Wasn't Born to Rock'n Roll," and "Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts," New York's Tompkins Square Records keeps following twists and turns in the history of American music.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2010
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Twisted Roots
Friday night: two very different takes on American music roots music, from Buddy Miller at House of Blues and Holly Golightly at Subterranean.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2007
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He's God's steel-guitar man now
Steel-guitar legend Sneaky Pete is dead.
- Music, Critic's Choice May 16, 2002
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