When Kendell Marvel took the stage at Nashville’s EXIT/IN on Tuesday night, he made a simple proclamation: “We’re going to play some country music.”
Boy, did they ever, The 20th installment of Kendell Marvel’s Honky Tonk Experience celebrated the first night of Americanafest 2019 with a brilliant lineup of some of country’s best players, and even saw Marvel inducted into rarified air: the EXIT/IN Wall of Fame.
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On Saturday night, the party was on at Nashville’s EXIT/IN.
The occasion? The Hip Abduction was in town, making a stop on their tour to celebrate their fourth full-length independent release, To the Ends of the Earth.
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It’s probably a good time to mention that we’re going to be on vacation next week. So, aside from this being the last new UMC20 playlist of the month, it’s the last update period until September. We’ll hit you with the best of August when we get back the day after Labor Day.
(Don’t worry, though. We’re cooking up some fun for you while we’re gone. More on that later in the week!)
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Hey… we have an idea.
How about a Daily Spinn that’s also a review of a brand new single, all rolled into one?!
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Let’s end July by taking a trip back up to Pennsylvania, to one of the most versatile and inventive musicians I’ve ever had the opportunity to meet.
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Here’s a band that, personally speaking, I hope will make music together once again.
We live in an age of digital information. This certainly has its advantages.
However, there are associated pitfalls, as well, and they aren’t addressed enough.
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Celebrate independence this holiday week with 20 fresh tracks from another explosive array of indie artists.
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The creative lifestyle is not one for the nine-to-fiver. That goes for the person living it, as well as the people they hold dear.
Today’s Daily Spinn goes out to those people.
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Last month, we featured a conversation on UMC with Cris Jacobs, whose recent, full-length Americana effort Color Where You Are serves as a portrait in time of his new station in life as a husband and father.
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