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Light Verse
How do you measure the time between albums? The calendar says that Iron & Wine’s latest studio effort, Light Verses, arrives exactly six years, eight months, and one day after its previous one, 2017’s Beast Epic. Your record shelf, on the other hand, says it’s been two EPs, one Archive Series release, one collab with Calexico, one reissue of his breakthrough album, two live albums, and a documentary. Maybe it’s more useful to tally up all the mundane moments when you’ve tried to be a good partner or patient father or productive artist or engaged citizen—tasks all complicated by a global pandemic that, for Sam Beam, anyway, proved creatively crippling. These various metrics are all bouncing around his skull on Light Verse, an album very much aware of time passing. Beam’s own abacus can be startlingly gruesome: “Time likes pulling my teeth,” he sings on the wry, spry “Cutting It Close.” “I never knew how many teeth I would need.”
10 Artists With the Most No. 1 Songs on Billboard Hot 100: The Beatles, Mariah Carey and More
The BeatlesDespite disbanding decades ago, The Beatles still hold the title of artist or group with the most No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100.They have a total of 20 No. 1 songs, which include “Love Me Do,” “She Loves You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “A Hard Day’s Night,” “I Feel Fine,” “Eight Days a Week,” “Ticket to Ride,” “Help!” and “Yesterday.”“Yesterday,” “We Can Work It Out,” “Paperback Writer,” “Penny Lane,” “All You Need Is Love,” “Hello, Goodbye,” “Hey Jude,” “Get Back,” “Something,” “Let It Be” and “The Long and Winding Road” complete...
Jelly Roll setlist: Everything he played at Stagecoach on Friday
Jelly Roll, who has blasted off in the past two years on the country scene from unknown to mega-star, played Friday night at the Stagecoach country music festival in the lineup spot just ahead of headliner Eric Church. Jelly Roll brought out rapper T-Pain for a special homage to the recently deceased Toby Keith to cover Keith's hit "Should've Been a Cowboy." ...
Jelly Roll honors Toby Keith with T-Pain as part of guest-filled Stagecoach set
Jelly Roll, one of country music's fastest-rising stars, squeezed multiple guests into his 50-minute set at the Stagecoach country music festival Friday night highlighted by a team-up with rapper T-Pain to honor country legend Toby Keith who passed away earlier this year. Midway through the set, T-Pain came out to join Jelly Roll and the two sang Keith's classic "Should've Been a Cowboy" to honor the country legend that inspired them both. ...
Stagecoach: From Iowa musings to 'Jolene,' here's our favorite moments from Hailey Whitters' set
There's nothing like seeing an artist who used to be in tiny font on a music festival lineup rise in the ranks. That's exactly what country music singer-songwriter Hailey Whitters did with her late afternoon Stagecoach set Friday. Near the beginning of the performance, Whitters reminded the crowd that she was at California's country music festival just two years ago — with her "girl" Lainey Wilson, as she called her — and was singing on a "tiny stage in the middle of the field."
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