In a state that has produced more than a few amazing songwriters over the last few years, Ian Noe stands alone as the Commonwealth’s best. His sophomore record, “River Fools and Mountain Saints,” expertly combines regional dialect and turns of phrase with incredible melodies and top-notch instrumentation to create songs
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Whenever I hear people reference the “Kentucky music scene,” I get slightly aggravated. Not because it isn’t a scene – it is, but it’s also so much more than that. I usually refer to it as a community, or a family, rather than a scene. I do that simply because
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Writing album and show reviews is something I truly enjoy, but rarely have time for these days. Which is unfortunate because music is something deeply important to me and a lot of people where I’m from. When the opportunity presented itself to review the new album “Jericho” from Benton, KY’s
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We are thrilled to announce the return of the Cumberland Mountain Fall Festival to downtown Middlesboro this October 1st and 2nd, 2021! For the first time in 40 years, it was cancelled last year. The staple event for downtown Middlesboro is something that folks across the region look forward to
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Right now there is a close knit Kentucky music community that’s hurting this week. This is the week that a lot of us, 1,500 or so to be exact, are supposed to be trying to concentrate on our work, and having to constantly refocus to keep from counting down the
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Last summer, my wife and I took a trip to somewhere in middle-of-nowhere West Virginia (as someone from middle-of-nowhere, Kentucky…I say that lovingly) to attend Mountain Music Festival, an incredible event put on in large part by my buddy Charlie Hatcher. Charlie works for Whizzbangbam, a management team for Tyler
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We here at Kentucky Country Music are proud to give the world it’s first listen to the debut album from southern Ohio’s own Nic Allen and the Troubled Minds, titled “On the Hilltop”. Nic has been a fixture in our regional scene for a few years, cutting his teeth at
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One of our favorite music festivals in Kentucky over the years has been Kickin’ It On the Creek. In fact, it was listed in our top Kentucky country music events for 2019. Check out the article here. My cousin Daniel made a great call and took a few hours off
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Kentucky is presently in the midst of writing one of the great chapters in country music history. Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, and Tyler Childers are helping change the game, and they’ve got an army of their incredibly talented peers backing them up. Music has always flowed through these hills; crawling
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