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Molly Tuttle performs during the Grand Ole Opry performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Manchester, Tenn.

Three great ways to get your singer-songwriter thing on, in Ali Barter, Molly Tuttle and Brent Cobb

March 13, 2020 at 4:37 p.m.

Leading the club listings this week are a confessional indie-rocker, an ace instrumentalist turned thoughtful singer-songwriter and a fine Americana artist on an intimate acoustic tour. Ali Barter This event...

Matthew Broadbent and Jack Broadbent perform on stage during the Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 at Cherry Hinton Hall on Aug. 4, 2019 in Cambridge, England.

A trio of Chicago shows to keep you busy, from a singer-songwriter to a slide guitar whiz

March 6, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.

Gladie Like an indie-rock Lucinda Williams or Neko Case's punkish kid sister, Gladie frontwoman Augusta Koch sings in a disarming style that resonates long after the music stops. The Philadelphia...

Anna of the North only sounds like a ‘Game of Thrones’ character, even if she (kinda) comes with elf ears

February 21, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.

People look for liberation in all sorts of ways. Anna of the North found hers in a pair of pointy elf ears that would make "The Lord of the Rings"...

Family Crest was born from a man getting fed up with the music game, deciding to give it one more go and birthing a symphonic pop band

February 6, 2020 at 3:20 p.m.

Liam McCormick was a jaded twenty-something when he decided to quit the music business in 2008. But before moving on with his life, the singer-guitarist put out a call for...

Keller Williams’ project, Keller Williams and the Keels, manages to make bluegrass tunes rip like rockers, covering the likes of Weezer and Fiona Apple

January 23, 2020 at 3:07 p.m.

Keller Williams was 17 in 1987 when he went to his first Grateful Dead show. He loved the music, but the Deadheads he met in the parking lot equally shaped...

2019 Kennedy Center Honoree singer Linda Ronstadt, bottom center, is join by, from left, Shelly Schultz, Susan Schultz, Jill Boylan, John Boylan, Peter Asher, and Janet Stark at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors State Department Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Washington.

Peter Asher has been everywhere, done everything: Beatles, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, the British Invasion

January 3, 2020 at 5:17 p.m.

Peter Asher knew the Beatles, roomed with Paul McCartney, discovered James Taylor and managed Linda Ronstadt. As half of the duo Peter and Gordon, he was a bona fide member...

Ben Zaidi’s electro pop came to life in the solitude of a cabin in the woods

November 21, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Ben Zaidi wrote much of his new album in a friend's cabin deep in the woods of Vermont. His writer's solitude was interrupted one day when he woke to...

Beth Hart is living the bliss of a life that contains everything in a blizzard of extremes from no label to a Grammy nomination

November 14, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.

Beth Hart's life is the stuff of great blues songs, equal parts victory and failure, triumph and tragedy. The singer-songwriter has battled drug and alcohol addiction, struggled with a troubled...

Trisha Yearwood doesn’t think 12 years is a long time, even if for her devoted fans it probably feels like forever

November 1, 2019 at 1:10 p.m.

Trisha Yearwood never planned on letting 12 years pass between solo albums. But sometimes life has other plans. For the country star, that meant more than a decade spent writing...

Netflix’s hit ‘Stranger Things’ inspired Ingrid Michaelson, and her ‘Stranger Songs’ is the result

October 15, 2019 at 4:31 p.m.

The hit Netflix series "Stranger Things" has captured the imagination of viewers, among them Ingrid Michaelson, whose new album "Stranger Songs" was inspired by the show. The singer-songwriter was instantly...

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