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Welcome to the Weekly Dispatch! This week,
Jerry Douglas tracks his music evolution, Mountain Grass Unit
brings us a bonus DelFest Session, Flamy Grant helps heal our gay
religious trauma with her mixtape, and STAX Records gets the
spotlight it deserves.
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Jerry Douglas’ New Album, The Set, Tracks His Musical Evolution
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Whether
it’s running through Flatt & Scruggs songs with the Earls of
Leicester, kicking up covers like The Beatles’ “While My Guitar
Gently Weeps,” or conjuring up jazz-like improv jams, the
sixteen-time GRAMMY winning musician Jerry Douglas has a way of
drawing the listener in with his tasteful tunes. [Read more about the legend here]
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Emmy-Nominated Docuseries Highlights the
Impact of STAX Records
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It all
began way back, nearly seventy years ago in Memphis, Tennessee,
when an almost unremarkable thing happened: A record store opened
its doors. [Learn more
about STAX here]
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DelFest Sessions: Mountain Grass Unit,
“Lonesome Dove”
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For a
special bonus edition of our DelFest Sessions, we return to
Cumberland, Maryland and the banks of the Potomac River for an
encore performance by bluegrass four-piece, Mountain Grass Unit. On
September 20, the group released a brand new EP, Runnin’ From Trouble, which features this
original number, “Lonesome Dove.” [Watch the live performance here]
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Music has
always contained multitudes– the broader the influence, the more
potent the sound. Whether implicit or overt, it’s an art form
that’s one of those stickier substances, tending to accrue dust and
glitter from all that came before it. Our Crossover Is Cool
Again playlist includes some of the most agile
shapeshifters in the bluegrass business. [Listen here]
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Folk Music, Friendship, and Fountain Pens:
Nerding out with Bruce Molsky & Darol Anger
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The names
Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger come up often when talking to fiddlers
on Basic Folk. The pair have single-handedly mentored hundreds
of our favorites in fiddle music at Berklee College of Music in
Boston. On this episode, they join Cindy in honor of
their newest folk music collab, Lockdown Breakdown. [Check out the interview here]
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MIXTAPE: Flamy Grant’s Songs for Healing Gay
Religious Trauma
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Welcome to
the playlist you probably didn’t have on your bingo card this year:
a series of songs spanning from gospel music to ’90s folk, all
curated by a drag queen with a number one Christian album under her
belt, Flamy Grant. [Heal your gay or straight heart here]
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Life's Hard for an Outlaw with Dallas Burrow
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One of our
favorite people, Dallas Burrow, stopped by for this new episode of
Only Vans to talk about owning a music venue, shamans, Charley
Crockett, having a complicated past, and all those good vibes!
[Listen here]
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