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Word of South 2026: Earth, Wind & Fire, George Clinton, Amythyst Kiah, Lee Bains, and Cascades Park

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u/FeddunXR — 1 day ago
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Donald Trump really thought he was about to unlock top-secret information from Xi Jinping’s private notebook during the speech 😭🤣

He casually leaned over, flipped it open for a quick peek like a student trying to copy answers during an exam…

Only to realize the entire notebook was written in Chinese.

The pause afterward was priceless.

You could almost see the exact moment his brain went:
“Yeah… absolutely no idea what I’m looking at.”

Then he slowly closed the notebook and acted like nothing even happened 💀

No dramatic reaction. No words. Just a quiet tactical retreat.

u/Fun_Resident_8293 — 3 days ago
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The New Albums of the Week

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen - They Call Us The Lucky Ones

49 Winchester - Change of Plans

Reckless Kelly - Alternate Routes

Jobi Riccio - Face The Feeling

Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open

Russell Jamie Johnson - Self-Titled

Rob Baird - Smoke on the Breeze

Braxton Keith - Real Damn Deal

Sarah Harralson - Just The Beginning

(EP)

Johnny Mullenax - This Joints For You, Too (EP)

Hunter Morris/Mountain of Youth - Nowhere, NW

Kevin Farge - Country Love Song

Adam Ross - Bring On The Apathy

Desiree Dorion - Pieces of Me

Teddy Thompson - Never Be The Same

Thin Lear - Many Disappeared

Dan Walsh - At the Station

Amanda Shaw - Rhythm of My Roots

Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs - Tribute to The Stanley Brothers

Brandon Good - Restless

Shakey Graves - Fondness, Etc.

S.G. Goodman - (Re)Planting by the Signs

Ramsey Thornton - I Called It

Sam Gelband - That's All

Menoncle Jason - Hallo Chanceux

Crow and Gazelle - Truth Be Told

Jack Shields & The Mojave Rush - Avalanche Hour

Daughn Gibson - Lake Mary Not Mysterious

Carly King - Loving you is Easy

Angelo De Augustine - Angel In Plainclothes

I’m Kingfisher - Give Up Together

Hannah & Nathan - Love & Labour

Spencer Bandy - Ends With Us (EP)

Madisons - The Return of Country Music Sunday!!! (EP)

Jason Scott & The High Heat - Highway Robbery (EP)

STELLA LEFTY - Is This Heaven? (EP)

Son of Dave - Four Sod Kickers (EP)

Cancion Franklin - The Highway and the Morning Stars (EP)

Alex Amen - California Blues (EP)

Golden Everything - Down Time (EP)

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u/Routeamericana — 4 days ago
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Anti-war song featuring Pete Hegseth (...for those who long for an old-skool protest song)

Too many narcist leaders playing with the toys today!

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u/Fuzz-Ambassador — 5 days ago
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Any Good Shows in LA?

I'm be in LA from today until Wednesday. Would love to find some live music, preferably amaericana, alt country, blues, folk.

I tried to do a search but there's SO MUCH to sift through.

Any help is appreciated

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u/SouthpawGtrPlyr — 6 days ago
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English Red Dirt — anyone else trying to transplant the sound across the Atlantic?

Hey everyone, Long-time listener, first-time poster here. I've been deep in the Americana/Red Dirt rabbit hole for years — John Moreland, Ryan Bingham, Zach Bryan, Turnpike Troubadours — and somewhere along the way I started writing my own songs under the same influence. The twist: I'm 60 years old and from Bedworth, a small working-class town in the English Midlands. So the stories I'm telling are rooted there — engineering works, back streets, the kind of people who don't usually end up in songs. I've started calling it English Red Dirt Acoustic, which either makes perfect sense or sounds completely mad depending on your perspective. I'm just starting out and not here to spam links — mostly curious whether anyone else in this community is doing something similar, or has found other artists bridging that gap between the American roots tradition and somewhere very un-American. Also genuinely interested in what drew everyone here to this genre in the first place. For me it was hearing You Don't For Me Enough To Cry at the wrong moment and never quite recovering.

Paul

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u/PaulG_CCFC — 6 days ago
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This is a song I wrote called Bussing Tables.

Bussing tables all the day

For that minimum wage

Making messes up and disappear

Where disaster is unleashed

Right there you'll find me

The manager has made that very clear

u/These-Challenge-4145 — 11 days ago