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“Extremely Honored and Humbled” Rosanne Cash is First Woman to Receive Crossroads of American Music Award

Rosanne Cash was named the winner of the sixth-annual Crossroads of American Music award.

She is the first woman honoree in the award’s history.

The singer is “extremely honored and humbled,” per a statement in the Delta Business Journal.

“I feel that so much of what I am, what I am drawn to, what I love, what I write about and what is in my very bloodstream comes from the Delta,” Cash said.

Cash will feted Oct. 3 in Cleveland, Miss., and follows previous winners Charley Pride, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Rush, Keb’ Mo’ and Marty Stuart.

9/11/24

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Remembering Charley Pride 🌹🕊️on his Birthday 🎂

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Billy Strings Live Show Review: 5/24, Allstate Arena, Rosemont

From left to right: Jarrod Walker, Royal Masat, Billy Strings, Billy Failing, Alex Hargreaves

BY JORDAN MAINZER

I would have been shocked to see the Allstate Arena full for some traditional bluegrass music. I wasn't surprised one lick to see it packed to the brim for Billy Strings. The prodigious guitar player competes in the bluegrass category at the Grammys--perhaps an American Roots nod here or a Country nod there, depending on the song and whether he's collaborating with anybody--but his brand of old-time string music is something more progressive and modern than what you associate with bluegrass. Not to say he doesn't have chops: If there was every anybody raised to appreciated music of the Appalachians, it's Strings, whose mother married amateur bluegrass musician Terry Barber when Strings was two years old. It was Barber who showed strings the likes of Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. Yet, it was Strings himself, a child of the early Internet age, who discovered rock and metal. Though his recorded music isn't loud, and his live performances aren't necessarily heavy, they exude the raw spirit of bluegrass, the virtuosity of rock and roll, and the jaw-dropping skill of both.

Walker, Masat, Strings, Failing, & Hargreaves

Having never seen Strings before, I didn't know what to expect last Friday at Allstate Arena. Walking in and scanning the tie dye-laden fans, it was clear he had a diehard following with a definite overlap with jam band culture. When he and his band took the stage (mandolinist Jarrod Walker, bassist Royal Masat, banjoist Billy Failing, fiddler Alex Hargreaves), I immediately understood why. Their performance of "Fire Line", a standout cut from 2017's Turmoil & Tinfoil, started out expected enough, Strings' breathtaking picking leading the way, but quickly gave way to something almost resembling improvisational jazz, with fiddle solos and guitar plucks sprinkled between the rhythms. Strings then put his complex pedal board to work to make his acoustic guitar distort like an electric guitar, a clear distinction from earlier in the song where he made it sound like, well, a banjo. That is, this was more Pink Floyd than Earl Scruggs.

Walker, Masat, Strings, Failing, & Hargreaves

And in the same way a few of the non-aggressive electronic music heads have embraced the loose ends of the Grateful Dead and Phish, I could see why they, too, might appreciate a Billy Strings concert. The way Strings intertwines traditional tunes and covers within his original material, often segueing between songs, is akin to a DJ set. During "Long Forgotten Dream", a highlight from Strings' 2019 breakout album Home, at one point, after a long period of ambiance with Strings' subtle guitars wincing above the mostly quiet band, the song's main refrain returned to flashing rainbow lights, the crowd going nuts like the beat had just dropped. Of course, Strings and his band are much more fun to watch than a DJ: Call me crazy, but at one point during a cover of Failing's "So Many Miles", he was picking so fast it looked like there was wind blowing his red mane.

Walker, Masat, Strings, Failing, Hargreaves, & Terry Barber

And for those bluegrass traditionalists, Friday treated them to an encore of Barber himself coming out to join the band, huddled around a microphone, to cover a couple Monroe classics and, fittingly, Charley Pride's "On the Southbound". "Well I woke up this morning when the cold Chicago wind / Blew my newspaper blanket off my back," sang Strings, of course hoping for that thing to happen where you name the city you're playing in or near and the crowd cheers. It didn't matter not only because the crowd was cheering anyway, but because many of them were already avid Strings followers, along for the journey from city to city, from song to song.

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Charley Pride, Buck Owens and Jerry Lee Lewis

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Five Charley Pride eight-tracks.

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The Highlight: January 2023 Artist Spotlight (Music in the Rear View Mirror)

-In Our Peripheral Vision: Music from 2021-

Artist: Tony Evans Jr.

Song Title: "Hotel Room"

Genre: Country

Country: USA

-Looking Back at the 2010s-

Artist: Charley Pride

Song Title: "Standing in My Way"

Genre: Country

Country: USA

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God they really would find each other in any universe

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77. Kiss an Angel Good Morning by Charley Pride debuted Nov 71 and peaked at number 21, scoring 995 points.

Charley was born in Sledge, Mississippi, and had 11 chart entries 1969-74. This was his only top 40 hit. On the country chart, Charley had 67 entries 1966-89. Twenty-nine made it to number one.

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(via All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) - Charley Pride (1969)

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Remembering Charley Pride 🌹🕊️on his Birthday 🎂

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Charley Pride and Hank Williams Jr ( 1969 )