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Album - Carly Pearce - 29: Written In Stone
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Carly Pearce - 29: Written In Stone

As crushing and humiliating as heartbreak can be, it always allows for a rebirth of sorts. For Carly Pearce, it's resulted in 29: Written In Stone - a modern country music masterpiece.

Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed Album Cover
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Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed

On star-crossed, Musgraves' vulnerability doesn’t fully disappear, but neither does she trust it so completely anymore. What emerges are astute observations told plainly. Wrapping them in witticisms or metaphors would lose the truth they need to convey — to herself as much as to anyone else.

Home In This World: Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads Album Cover
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Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads

These interpretations replicate the timeless qualities all great work exudes. The artists breathe new life and fresh inspiration into material whose words and melodies haven’t lost an ounce of their powerful intensity, regardless of the style they are replicated in.

Album - Niko Moon - Good Time
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Niko Moon - GOOD TIME

The 14 tracks that make up his delightful debut album, Good Time, are full of barefoot, homespun wisdom. Niko Moon sits back, forgets all about it and just lets the world go by.

Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita Album Cover
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Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood and Juanita

In The Ballad of Dood and Juanita, Sturgill Simpson has created something extraordinary.

Connie Smith - The Cry of the Heart Album Cover
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Connie Smith - The Cry of the Heart

Marty Stuart should be praised for his production of the project, but on the enthralling The Cry of the Heart, Connie Smith shows that she remains a vibrant and convincing presence. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait another decade for number 55.