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Review of Weathervanes by Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – “Running Through the Red Lights” 

As the master storyteller Jason Isbell has shown us over the years, life is hard. Relationships fail, our decisions, good or bad, can haunt us, regret, pain, loss, triumphs, addictions, glimmers of hope, and everything in the middle make up this world we were born into. In Weathervanes, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit take a deep dive into the physical, spiritual, and emotional frailty of being human. If you assumed the album would lean toward the darker side when you saw “Death Wish” as the first track, then your assumptions were correct…

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The Classic Western Tale by a PostModern Country Boy: Review of Sturgill Simpson’s The Ballad of Dood and Juanita

Stripping back the progressive country style, Simpson takes us back to 1862 in a very William Munny-esque saga of a violent, dead eye who is reformed from his ways by the alluring love of Juanita. They start a family but their idyllic country peace is interrupted by the bandit Seamus McClure. Thus sparking Dood, along with Shamrock his mule and his hound Sam on a dangerous quest to recover the love of his life and mother of his children…

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James McMurtry is a pervert for wanting your kids to see a drag show
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James McMurtry Groomer or Hero?

James McMurtry is a staple in Texas red dirt country/singer-country music – but James McMurtry out-of-touch with both reality and Tennessee law because he wants a 40 year old man’s moose-knuckle in your kindergartner’s face. Last week while playing in Tennessee the confused singer wore a red dress to protest the state’s “anti-drag legislation.”

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