Published May 10, 2021 at 11:26 AM EDT Listen • 36:30
Photo by Stephania Orru
Like the prophets of biblical times, music artists have often found it hard to gain acceptance in the places they came from. There is a heartbreaking scene in the documentary Every Night’s A Saturday Night: The Bobby Keys Story where the sax player famous for his time in The Rolling Stones sits outside his former high school, unable to bring himself to go to his old classmates’ reunion decades after leaving his small town of Slaton, Texas. Another example is my home town’s native son, Don Gibson, who left Shelby, North Carolina being thought of as pretty much a nobody that dropped out of school in the second grade before he went on to become a successful artist and one of the most celebrated song writers in country music history.
‘Loose Cannon’: Shepherdstown native’s debut album released
By Iyee Jagne - For the Chronicle | Mar 5, 2021
Lloyd
SHEPHERDSTOWN Shepherdstown native Olivia Ellen Lloyd’s debut album, “Loose Cannon,” was officially released on Feb. 26. It is now available on all streaming platforms.
Lloyd is the youngest of four girls. She learned to play music from her father, who was a staple in her hometown’s local music scene.
“My dad, Greg, passed away in 2014, but was a regular performer at weddings, bars and coffee shops in the area, especially the Meck,” Lloyd said, referring to the Mecklenburg Inn.
After her father’s passing, she took a brief break from live performances. However, she never stopped writing.
RS Country Music Picks for Week of February 15th
RS Country Music Picks for Week of February 15th
A song for dog lovers by Indigo Girls Amy Ray, a duet about horses from Corb Lund and Jaida Dreyer, and Fretland s celebration of excess
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Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.
Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Rolling Stone RS Country Music Picks for Week of February 15th
A song for dog lovers by Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray, a duet about horses from Corb Lund and Jaida Dreyer, and Fretland’s celebration of excess
By Luke Pilgrim
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.
Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Tiera featuring Breland, “Miles”
Singer-songwriter Tiera flexes her melodic and vocal muscles on the easygoing new single “Miles,” a duet with the shapeshifting singer Breland, of “My Truck” fame. Rather than trunk-rattling country-trap, it’s blissful folk-pop about falling in love set to a swaying R&B chord progression. Stick around for the mid-song breakdown and its sublime vocal interplay between Tiera, Brela