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Joe Pug: Messenger

Prodigious Chicago folksinger makes it look effortless Some things can be learned: how to pick a few chords on the guitar, how to shut your eyes while you sing, how to wince just so during the bridge to convey emotional weight. But unless your surname is Dylan, Waits, Ritter or Prine, you could face-palm yourself to death trying to pen songs half as inspired as the 10 tracks on Joe Pug’s debut full-length. Before moving to Chicago and writing his first songs, the 25-year-old folk phenom studied playwriting at the University of North Carolina; he dropped out, but he never...  read more

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit

Fairly or not, Jason Isbell may never live down...  read more

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit to release new album

Former Drive-By Truckers guitarist Jason Isbell is set for the February 2009 release of an album with his new band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. The self-titled full-length will drop via the Nashville-based label Lightning Rod Records....  read more