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Youâre a musician, so what do you do when locked down during a pandemic? Well, you certainly canât tour. In the case of many musicians, you make a record which is exactly what the two artists in this weekâs Ear Bliss spotlight accomplished. First up is the latest album from Sturgill Simpson called Cuttinâ Grass. If you are looking for the blues and rockinâ Sturgill Simpson shredding Hendrix-like on electric guitar, his latest will not be your cup of tee. Shredding on acoustic guitar, banjo, and fiddle is more like it with Cuttinâ Grass on which Simpson goes bluegrass reprising some of the best songs from his previous albums. From there we head to Sweden for an album by a newcomer to these ears named Christian Kjellvander. Titled About Love and Loving Again, it was recorded in May of 2020 at a time, when of course, much of Europe was under strict lockdown, with the famous exception of Sweden. The lack of COVID restraints allowed Kjellvander to enter a Sto
PORTSMOUTH To the east, on one side of Narragansett Bay, in Bristol, a ferry’s engines thrum. To the west, the sun races for treelines over Warwick and East Greenwich.
Nancy Howland is right in the middle of the Bay, on firm soil, behind the wheel of her Ford Ranger.
The 68-year-old is game for sharing a few observations about Prudence Island life during a pandemic year that has brought death, sickness and sweeping change to much of the world.
She is grateful: As far as she knows, she says, no one on Prudence has contracted COVID-19.
Islands have been romanticized in the battle against some of history’s worst plagues, either as dumping grounds for the incurably ill or as havens from diseases rampant on the mainland.