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FOUNDERS KEEPERS: Basia Bulat, Gary Louris, Benmont Tench and more @NoDepression #music https://t.co/bGsA5OykOG

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🐻 Big Ears Festival 2025 Digs Deep

Read @amosperrine story and see Kelly Shipe's photo gallery!

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🔍 In this edition of Founder's Keepers, ND founding co-editor Peter Blackstock shares with us a few new releases that are worth a spin, from Basia Bulat (@BasiaBulat), Gary Louris (@GaryLourisMusic), Benmont Tench and many more.

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📰 Start off your week caught up! In this installation of Bonus Tracks: a farewell from our web editor 😢, a special album announcement from Marc Ribot (@marcribotmusic), Lizzo (@lizzo) is cast as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, + more.

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#newmusicfriday 🪐

Featuring @AlisonKrauss, @CatRidgeway, @freerange_songs, @lucydacus, @maya_delilah, @MumfordAndSons, + many more!

Scroll to the bottom of our homepage for a list of artists and album titles! https://t.co/4ar0AUBsUF

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📸 Long gone are the days when @NeckShoulders lived out of a van, playing on street corners + for tips at bars. With his signature mullet he’s at the forefront of what’s been called “pseudo-new wave country music,” along with a string of sold-out shows.

[📷: Rick Davidson]

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🛏️ With a sound that can swing from tender, banjo-driven folk to all-out indie rock — often in the same song — Palmyra doesn’t sugarcoat their pain on their debut full-length release, 'Restless.'

Click for more on the album, out today!
https://t.co/Jat7CxZ19b

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📡 In this month's Crowdfunding Radar, we look to Nefesh Mountain (@NefeshMountain), Laura Mock, and Gloria Anderson (@gloriaandersonm) - three artists that offer backers a peek behind the scenes of the project they've supported.

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✍️ We round out our March Spotlight content with an impactful essay about the Music Industry™, the music industry, and the path ahead from Olivia Ellen Lloyd.

Click to read and to check out Olivia's Spotlight interview and ND-exclusive performance!
https://t.co/jTJ7CLQ8As

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🎻 With the release of ‘Arcadia,’ her tenth studio album since her debut at sixteen, Alison Krauss (@AlisonKrauss) returns—not that she ever left—to the music that made her a standard-bearer for roots music.

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🎸 On 'Young Fashioned Ways', Bobby Rush (@BobbyRushBlues) and Kenny Wayne Shepherd (@KWShepherd) bridge the generational divide for a 10-song, legendary blues romp that maximizes the considerable charms of each performer.

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📸 Today, Through the Lens takes us to @WillieNelson's @LuckReunion in TX and Australia's Blue Mountains Music Festival, feat. @Grace__Bowers, @k_crutchfield, @CharleyCrockett, @HappyWoman9, @WilliCarlisle, + more!

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[📷: Justin St. Clair]
https://t.co/drhu6YUIBK

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🔥 "When you feel like a failure, baby you’re a trailblazer."

Click here for more on Lola Kirke's (@LolaKirke) third full-length album, 'Trailblazer,' a swirling blend of country and rock, out now!
https://t.co/lsYJyEvMC6

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📰 Start off your week caught up! @FreshGrassFdn Festival lineup, roots crowdfunding, remembering Aurelio Martinez, + more.

Click for the whole scoop + a look at what we've been listening to.
https://t.co/R8oMEp04o2

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👑 The late great Kinky Friedman honors another legend with the posthumous 'Poet of Motel 6,' a beautiful meditation on Billy Joe Shaver, capping a creative renaissance that began with Kinky's return to music-making in 2015.

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https://t.co/3kD0VPm6Yr

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#newmusicfriday 😁

Featuring @BobbyRushBlues + Kenny Wayne Shepherd, @Jbrekkie, @LolaKirke, @tommyemmanuel, + many more!

Scroll to the bottom of our homepage for a list of artists and album titles! https://t.co/4ar0AUAV57

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❤️ Sister Rosetta Tharpe would've been 100 years old today.

To celebrate the woman whose electrifying voice and guitar chops changed music as we know it, we have a special piece from singer/songwriter/saxophonist Vanessa Collier!

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https://t.co/nT1L494cyo

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📽️ Olivia Ellen Lloyd has learned to live with her fair share of hardships in life. With her song "Live With It," off her new album 'Do It Myself' (out tomorrow!), she reckons with coming out the other side.

Click for an ND-exclusive performance!
https://t.co/AJPqfnYdNf