Miley Cyrus performed a pair of songs with Brandi Carlile, debuted a new track, and suffered a wardrobe malfunction after the ball dropped during her New Year’s Eve special in Miami. Together, both Carlile and Cyrus revived some of their earliest hits: They first performed “The Story,” Carlile’s first big …
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During the second of her six sold-out concerts at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Brandi Carlile joined Lucie Silvas — the British-born, Nashville-based singer whose vocal ferocity and incisive songwriting are akin to her own — for a thundering cover of Bonnie Tyler‘s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Dusky and soulful, Silvas’ …
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A power ballad by Southern rockers Bishop Gunn, a politically-charged rough-houser from the Felice Brothers and an intense performance by Emily Scott Robinson are among the must-hear country and Americana songs this week. Julian Lage, “Crying” It’s a bold move, covering a Roy Orbison song without singing an actual note. …
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“I guess we’re in the forgiveness business,” John Prine told his duet partner Brandi Carlile on stage last night at his sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Celebrating the release ofThe Tree of Forgiveness, his first album in 13 years, that particular John Prine-ism perhaps best …
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