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Jaimee Harris Boomerang Town

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Jaimee Harris Boomerang Town Folk N’ Roll/Thirty Tigers On just her second album Jaimee Harris has proven to be an impressive singer-songwriter, creating vivid character sketches, a myriad of emotions, and an honest way of expressing her own personal feelings through her narratives. She echoes Springsteen and Gretchen Peters to name just two. Those alone […]

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Buddy Mondlock Filament

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Buddy Mondlock Filament Self-released Buddy Mondlock is one of the better, albeit lesser known Nashville-based singer songwriters. After all, any songwriter who co-writes with Guy Clark is in a lofty category, just be virtue of that. Yet, there’s much more here on Mondlock’s latest, Filament, than just “The Dark,” the co-write with Clark. The album […]

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The Shootouts Stampede

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The Shootouts Stampede Soundly Music The Shootouts never expected to engage in this level of glittering hoedown showdown, and certainly not so quickly following the success of their 2021 Top 10 Americana album, Bullseye. But they could not get out of the way of this Stampede, certainly not with Ray Benson driving it. The renowned […]

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Charlie Treat is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Charlie Treat Before becoming one of East Nashville’s most genre-bending songwriters, Charlie Treat grew up on a farm in New England, listening to old-school crooners whose songs reflected his own rural surroundings. Years later, he salutes those influences with Into The Wild Mystic Mountain, an imaginative […]

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Gerry Casey interviews Mary Gantley

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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview Mary Gantley Mary Gantley is a trained piano player at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She also started life playing church organ in her home town of Tullyallen, Co.Louth amazingly at the young age of 10. An extraordinary talent who’s songwriting and voice now excels as much as her […]

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Andrew Browning is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an Interview with Andrew Browning Truly gritty, west-coast-noir dripping with creosote, this dusty Outlaw Country might be the unlikely result of a 20-year hiatus to hang up his gear, change careers and raise a family. But this band and these songs snuck up on Andrew Browning and hit him […]

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The Lone Bellow Love Songs for Losers

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The Lone Bellow Love Songs for Losers Dualtone After delivering four highly acclaimed albums with reputable, decorated producers, the harmonious trio, The Lone Bellow have self-produced their fifth album, Love Songs for Losers. Recorded in the possibly haunted former home of Roy Orbison, this album weaves in some pain with the unbridled joy that characterized […]

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Randy C Moore is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Randy C Moore RANDY C MOORE, a  Texas music artist and 2022 European Country Music Hall of Fame member.  Randy is  currently blazing a new trail into the Texas music scene as feature in the Lone Star State’s big market radio stations and major festivals in […]

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Silver Lake 66 is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Maria Francis and Jeff Overbo of Silver Lake 66 Maria Francis and Jeff Overbo provide their own take on modern Americana with Silver Lake 66. With a soulful hybrid of classic country, folk and blues, their songs have been hailed by numerous publications and radio stations. […]

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Drive-by Truckers Welcome 2 Club XIII

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Drive-by Truckers Welcome 2 Club XIII ATO America’s preeminent rock band, The Drive-by Truckers, deliver a different, more personal, and nostalgic album with Welcome 2 Club XIII, a major departure from the politically charged The Unraveling and the New OK from 2020. The album takes its name from the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members […]

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Sarah Jane Nelson is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sarah Jane Nelson Now, as a Nashville-based singer and songwriter, she’s weaving her life experiences with universal truths to tell stories of her own. “For many years, I was terrified to be truly vulnerable in my songwriting. I was used to playing a part. As an […]

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Matt Hannah is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Matt Hannah Matt Hannah is a Michigan-native and Minneapolis-based folk Americana singer-songwriter. His music has been heard on KCMP The Current (MPLS) and radio stations throughout the country, and he has performed throughout the Midwest including at the Mid West Music Fest. His sophomore album Dreamland, […]

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David Gideon is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with David Gideon David Gideon is the kind of larger-than-life character you’d read about in a Jack Kerouac novel: adventure seeking, well traveled, and a little bit wild, with stories to tell and songs to sing. He mixes autobiography, tall tales, and old-school country twang on Lonesome Desert Strum. Recorded in […]

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Leona Williams is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE   Making a Scene Presents an Interview with the Legendary Country Singer Songwriter Leona Williams Leona Williams was destined to become a Country Music Entertainer. She landed her first radio show at the age of 15, simply called “Leona Sings” in Jefferson City, Missouri. That journey would take her all over the world […]

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Laurie Jones is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE   Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Laurie Jones Laurie Jones is an American Singer/songwriter that has been dubbed “the missing link between Dusty Springfield and Tom Petty.  She has been referred to as “Chrissie Hynde with a folk guitar” and compared to Lucinda Williams and Sheryl Crow for her Americana and […]

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Taylor Rae is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Taylor Rae The singer/songwriter’s eclectic style was influenced by a diverse roster of artists that includes Grace Potter, Janis Joplin, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Jewel, Simon & Garfunkel and Steely Dan. In pre-pandemic times, Taylor averaged 200 gigs annually, including the second stage at the legendary […]

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Rodeo FM All the things you asked for

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Rodeo FM All the things you asked for Rodeo FM is Pat – lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Masataka – bass, Dominik – drums and backing vocals,  Desmond – guitars and backing vocals, Gigi (guitar & banjo) Rodeo FM is a band based in Berlin, Germany, making music for 15 years. They have really played everywhere, at weddings and funerals, […]

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The Furious Seasons Home All Day, Home All Night

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The Furious Seasons Home All Day, Home All Night Stonegarden Home All Day, Home All Night, the pandemically named and recorded eighth album and fourth as an acoustic trio for The Furious Seasons, finds them stretching out more into a full band mode. Bandleader/ guitarist/songwriter and vocalist David Steinhart sees this as a more eclectic effort […]

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Joe Troop Borrowed Time

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Joe Troop Borrowed Time Free Dirt If the name is not familiar, perhaps the group is. Joe Troop is the bandleader for the Grammy-nominated Che Apalache. He’s a bilingual bluegrass multi-instrumentalist who brings the kind of activism we associate with Pete Seeger, early Bob Dylan, and the ‘60s era folkies. Much of this doesn’t sit […]

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Brianna Kocka is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Brianna Kocka Brianna Kočka is a singer-songwriter and producer from Minneapolis, MN. She has shared the stage with Marc Cohn, The Cult, and has had her music featured on General Hospital, 20/20, Betrayed, Siesta Keys and many other television shows. Evoking the instrumentation of Joni Mitchell, the intimacy […]

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Sandra North is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sandra North Sandra North started her early musical years in Sweden, singing in church choirs and school ensembles. It was clear at a very young age that singing, dancing and performing was all she wanted to do. She slowly worked her way into the music scene […]

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Jason Ringenberg Rhinestoned

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Jason Ringenberg Rhinestoned Courageous Chicken Jason Ringenberg releases his new album Rhinestoned March 5, 2021 on his Courageous Chicken label. A legendary alt-country pioneer, Ringenberg will have you Rhinestoned and boot-scootin’ to the best cow-punk this side of Nashville. Pandemic be damned, you’ll want to socially distance yourselves across the dance floor emulating Jason’s energetic […]

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Megan Lacy is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Megan Lacy! Megan Lacy is a songwriter and performer based in Austin, Texas, with a keen eye on the vast horizon.  Her style effortlessly spans the breadth of traditional American music, while remaining softly influenced by her own list of cult genres, giving her a unique but […]

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Stefan Prigmore is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Stefan Prigmore He believes in simple delivery of honest concepts, and apply this to his music. His father is also a professional musician and has been his greatest influence, welcoming him onstage from an early age to play along with various groups over the years on […]

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Sara Petite is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sara Petite Award-winning songwriter. International road warrior. American roots outlaw. For the better part of two decades, Sara Petite has blazed her own trail, carving out a mix of forward-thinking country, bluegrass, amplified folk, and Springsteen-sized rock & roll. It’s a sound that blurs the boundaries […]

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Larry Jay is Making a Scene!

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Home Page Making a Scene Presents an interview with Larry Jay! It’s been said that country-pop singer-songwriter Larry Jay’s songs are “Five chords and the truth.” The New York native, now residing in California, injects that truth with hopeful lyrics and tasty melodies, to create his own brand of Award-winning Americana-tinged southern fried music. A […]

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Alecia Nugent Is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Alecia Nugent Alecia Nugent is embracing her roots in classic country on The Old Side of Town, her first collection of new music in 11 years. Already familiar to bluegrass fans through three albums on Rounder Records, Nugent turned to producer Keith Stegall and a number […]

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Celeste Kellogg Is Making a Scene!

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Celeste Kellogg Celeste is a CMA / Nashville Recording Artist. Her latest EP titled You & Me, charted on the iTunes Country Chart. She debuted two of her songs from the EP(Country Swagger and Someone To Call Me Baby) at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville during […]

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Chicago Farmer Flyover Country

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Chicago Farmer Flyover Country Cody Diekhoff is a songwriter-singer. People know him as “Chicago Farmer” and his sixth studio album, Flyover Country, released February 7th 2020. A country boy from Illinois, these songs speak to and sometimes for the working class. Diekhoff teamed up with the hot Texas, Band Of Heathens, as his backing band […]

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Josh Gallagher is Making a Scene!

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Josh Gallagher Josh Gallagher writes songs destined to root themselves inside your brain and bring you back to the first moment you heard them every time you listen; he’s not just making music, he’s crafting memories. Doggedly likeable and unashamedly himself, the Pennsylvania native has a ‘no-bullshit’ […]

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George Ducas is Making a Scene!

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with George Ducas Four albums (and countless songs written for other artists) into one of country music’s more esteemed careers, country recording artist/songwriter George Ducas continues to evolve. His latest evolution comes in the form of YELLOW ROSE MOTEL, a project that stands as his most comprehensive […]

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The Mavericks Play The Hits

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The Mavericks Play The Hits Mono Mondo Recordings/Thirty Tigers The Mavericks were founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida. Their sound combines modern country music, Latino and rock n’ roll influences. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums including 1994’s “What A Crying Shame”. The title track from that album had been pre-released as […]

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Jacqui Brown Love, Love, Love

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Jacqui Brown Love, Love, Love Woodward Avenue At first this was puzzling. The brunette with the hat on the cover and inside jacket signaled country music but the label, Woodward Avenue, for this writer is associated with smooth jazz, real jazz, and soul. Woodward Avenue has a roster of great artists including Melba Moore. Readers […]

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Ryan Humbert from The Shootouts IS Making A Scene!

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ryan Humbert of The Shootouts! “Quick Draw” is an effortless blend of high-energy honky-tonk and traditional country music mixed with touches of Americana and western swing. The Shootouts marry a blend of Roy Orbison and Bob Wills with the barn-burning sounds of Marty Stuart & His […]

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Shawn Mullins Soul’s Core Revival

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Shawn Mullins Soul’s Core Revival Soul Carnival Records Shawn Mullins hails from Atlanta, Georgia. In the early 1990’s Mullins was a young troubadour on the folk circuit traveling the country in a minivan with his dog Roadie and a guitar. His debut recording was released in 1992 but it was his 1998 “Soul’s Core” album, […]

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Making a Scene Talks with Jim Wyly

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HOME PAGE FACEBOOK Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Jim Wyly Jim Wyly was born and raised in Tyler, Texas and has spent the last 40 years living and playing in the Austin area, so it would be easy to label him a “Texas Songwriter”. While that may be the easy route and very […]

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Roy Schneider& Kim Mayfield Reckless Saints

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Roy Schneider& Kim Mayfield Reckless Saints Shiny Gnu Thanks to roots artist Gurf Morlix for describing Roy Schneider and Kim Mayfield’s sound better than this writer can.  His term “blue twangled folk n’ roll” is perfect.  This husband and wife team runs the gamut from engaging acoustic folk to driving bluesy tunes, with hints of […]

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Jim Wyly The Artisan

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Jim Wyly The Artisan Texas Fanfair Publishing & Gaylord Music Jim Wyly must have had releasing a solo album on his bucket list. After playing in bands for forty years in and around Austin, the 72-year-old Texan is releasing The Artisan. His acoustic album sometimes features just Wyly alone while other tracks feature harmonicist Ray […]

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Mandy Barnett Strange Conversation

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Mandy Barnett Strange Conversation Dame Productions/Thirty Tigers Mandy Barnett made quite a splash recording her self-titled debut for Asylum before she was even 21 years old. Prior to that she had already been resurrecting Patsy Cline in the stage production Always…Patsy Cline. Barnett was a child prodigy who signed her first record deal at age […]

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An Interview with Ashley Wineland

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HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ashley Wineland! Whether she is singing and performing, raising money to assist our nation’s veterans, or donating her time to animal welfare organizations or other worthy causes, ASHLEY WINELAND is leaving an impression on everyone whose path she crosses. Ashley first made a splash […]

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The Nouveaux Honkies Loud In Here

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The Nouveaux Honkies Loud In Here Independent The Nouveaux Honkies are Tim O’Donnell and Rebecca Dawkins. This is there fourth full length recording but their first album was strictly blues and is long out of print. The Americana duo has since made their mark with three albums which they prefer to call Honky Tonk Country. […]

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An Interview with Natalia Morris of Southern Halo!

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HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making a Scene presents an interview with Natalia Morris of Southern Halo! It was just a dream. But sometimes dreams can change your life… That’s how Natalia (“Nata”) Morris felt when she snapped awake one morning not long ago. So she did what she’s always done when something important happens in […]

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