Long renowned for a faithful adherence to the Appalachian folk music tradition in many of their solo works as well as their collaborations as a duo, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have announced the release of All The Good Times, a 10-track sampling of acoustic cover songs. Recorded at home …
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The story of former military man Kris Kristofferson piloting a helicopter onto Johnny Cash’s lawn to deliver his demo tapes to the Man in Black, while essentially true, has often been told without certain details present. Mainly that Kristofferson had already been working for two years as janitor at Columbia …
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Cardi B, Invasion of PrivacyThe newly minted hip-hop superstar “puts on her bloody shoes and dances the blues” on her debut, writes Rob Sheffield. “Invasion of Privacy is lavishly emotional, intimately personal and wildly funny. … [It]flaunts so many different aspects of Cardi’s game, it comes on like a greatest-hits …
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Chris Cornell transformed a pair of Johnny Cash poems into a heart-wrenching acoustic ballad, “You Never Knew My Mind.” The ballad is the late Soundgarden singer’s contribution toa collection of Cash’s unrecorded poetry, lyrics and lettersput to music calledForever Words. “You Never Knew My Mind,” premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats …
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