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[lauraepartain]

My sweet new friend Lindi Ortega has an amazing track off her soon-to-be-released EP "Til The Goin Gets Gone" out today on Rolling Stone Country. If you've yet to listen to her let me just tell you - you're doing yourself an injustice. Go to RS Country's website to listen to the track and read the article. I really relate to Lindis article when they talk about how reality can try to disrupt or harm creativity, and that sometimes a fresh start needs to happen for growth to continue. I've been feeling that way myself so heavily these days. Click HERE to listen to the song and read the article🌱 

[drewliophoto]

@rscountry. Photo debut with the electric @paulcauthen at the @thefryecompany #fryedays event in Dallas! #rollingstonemagazine #rollingstonecountry #americana #Frye #fryeboots #Texas #texasmusic #country #texasphotographer (at The Frye Company) https://www.instagram.com/p/B55ajnZgVYC/?igshid=kf8h8nad611h

[riotactmedia]

Claire Morales named one of Rolling Stone Country’s 10 Artist You Need To Know!

“For Fans of: Joni Mitchell, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen

...“No Telling,” a deadpan double-entendre on love and art with a Courtney Barnett-worthy guitar hook...” 

Read the article here.

[the1010creative]

In September of 2008 my brother-in-law & sister-in-law told me they saw a band in Nashville and said I'd be a fool to not put their songs in my Nashville TV Pilot LITTLE HOLLYWOOD. The next night I was on the phone with Shawn Lacy, he watched some clips of our show and told me "Use any & every song you want." This moment changed my life. I adopted a band and gained a best friend. My best friend and I have been creating together ever since and today he is featured in Rolling Stone as a 2017 Artist to Watch. Mr. Lacy, I believed in you from the minute I heard RADIO ON and believed in you even more after finally sitting down for a beer together in 2009 at The Second Fiddle. You not only have the coolest voice in Music City, you possess a kind heart, a true passion for music and you're one hellava a good cook! It's all happening. Love ya pal and thank you Rolling Stone Country! Link in Bio! #rollingstone #rollingstonecountry #shawnlacy #itsallhappening #shawnlacymusic #nashville @shawnlacymusic @rollingstone @rscountry @daniellecondon @kellyporter @paddyo_715 @derektor #zacbrownband #amoslee #bobseger (at Nashville, Tennessee)

[krispyweiss]

Jack Johnson Sings about Smoking with Willie

You can’t keep Willie Nelson down.

Seriously. Even at 82, Nelson gets - and stays - really, really high. He also likes to *cough, cough* share with his musician friends. He once got Toby Keith so baked that Keith wrote a song called “Weed with Willie” in which he vowed:

I’ll never smoke weed with Willie again

That was probably a big, fat lie, because Willie has the best dope in Texas. And he uses it to twist big, fat, Texas-size doobies.

So it comes as no surprise that surfer dude/singer Jack Johnson, 40, was also the beneficiary of Willie’s largess and also got a song out of the deal. Performing at Farm Aid 30 on Sept. 19, Johnson, singing from a hand-written lyric sheet over a lazy, piano-driven melody, debuted a ditty of his own titled, “Willie Got Me Stoned and Took All My Money,” in which he recalls a hazy, bloodshot poker game.

It’s clearly written with love and reverence - and amazement at Willie’s tolerance for the ganja. And it’s pretty funny as he namechecks Nelson’s recent spiritual song “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.”

Would I really take a toke if they rolled Willie up and they smoked him?/hell yes I would and I know it might sound funny/but Willie got me stoned and took all of my money

Watch it at Rolling Stone Country: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-jack-johnson-sing-about-smoking-weed-with-willie-nelson-20150922

[krispyweiss]

Review: Keith Urban - “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16”

Damn you, Keith Urban.

When Rolling Stone Country posted the new video for your hit “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” Sound Bites was, stupidly, intrigued by the song’s title. And even though I don’t care for your music that much, you’re a very fine guitar player. So against my better judgment, I gave it a look-see and a listen only to discover you’re playing bass on this one.

Damn you, Keith Urban.

I don’t like your formulaic ditty - don’t like it one bit. But I’d be a big, fat liar if I didn’t admit it embedded itself in my Sound Hole like a globulous piece of earwax that even a plunger can’t budge.

Damn you, Keith Urban.

With sing-songy precision, you evoke American idols and icons in your silly lyrics. “Into the Great Wide Open” and “American Pie.” TV Dinners and “Wheel of Fortune.” Kris Kristofferson and John Wayne. Pepsi and whiskey. Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway. Norma Jean. Adam and Eve. And of course, the 3 Johns - Cougar, Deere and 3:16.

Plus, it all rhymes.

Damn you, Keith Urban.

I wish I’d never heard your insipid little song, but now, it’s burrowed into my brain like a parasite and eating away at what’s left of my sanity. I try to read - your melody, such as it is, takes over. I have a nosh, and I find myself chewing to the rhythm of your bassline. I’ll never be able to fantasize about Marilyn Monroe again without hearing this stupid, stupid - but undeniably catchy - tune.

Damn you, Keith Urban!

Grade card: Keith Urban - “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” - U

[heckerleash]

can't say enough good things about this article. i haven't met @travismeadows, but he retweeted me, recently + @stevemoakler does a pretty stellar impression of him, when telling the story of writing "riser"--which is probably my favorite song ever written. : ) i love all the stories from @barefootjake + @dierksbentley + @ericchurch! thanks to Travis for giving us hope (you sir are a lighter, whether you see it or not) + @rollingstone country for covering this incredible story so well. #riser #travismeadows #nashlove #rollingstonecountry #storiesandsongs