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Roses and Cigarettes Share “California Going Home” With The Bluegrass Situation

“This was the last song we wrote for the album. We were over at Jenny’s house, and we were talking about needing one more rockin’ song for the album. I sat on her couch and summoned Janis Joplin to help us out. The chords literally poured out from my hands. Jenny and I looked at each other and she immediately grabbed her phone, a pen, and we recorded the first draft. The song came together fairly quickly. Jenny created this beautiful scenery and imagery with her lyrics and I just love the story she tells in this song. We’ve all been there, and have felt those feelings before.” – Angela Petrilli

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Jennah Bell shares new single at The Bluegrass Situation

In Their Words: “In my early twenties, I would often find myself trying to have ‘the correct emotional response’ in confrontational situations. Smile instead of cry. Laugh instead of scream. This song was written in a moment of observing how fear was standardizing my ability to be vulnerable. Over time, I realized that one small act of bravery could be crying instead smiling, and living that truth out in the open. This song is an ode to that.” — Jennah Bell

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The Bluegrass Situation Features Boo Ray’s “We Ain’t Got The Good”

“This song’s a true love relationship being torn apart by addiction, financial struggle and depression, in emergency crash-mode begging to “Hold on! We ain’t got the good out of this yet.” It’s a country song and can be cut a couple of different ways. I was thinking The Mavericks-retro-modern-California country style so I could pitch it to somebody hip, maybe Russell Dickerson, Brothers Osborne or Eric Church. And it could also be done as a devastating, heartbroken ‘Whiskey Lullaby’-style duet by a pair of singers like Kacey Musgraves and Charlie Worsham, or Maren Morris and Russell Dickerson.” – Boo Ray

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The Bluegrass Situation sits down with Chase McBride about his Latest album ‘Pink Lemonade’ and music influences

The Bluegrass Situation sits down with Chase McBride about his Latest album and music influences

Which artist has influenced you the most … and how?

I grew up with James Taylor’s music omnipresent in my life. Whether my family was relaxing at home or taking long road trips through Montana, his voice was always somewhere in the background. I remember my Dad drumming along to “You’ve Got a Friend” on the steering wheel, and singing the high-harmony parts, which is probably where I picked up on vocal harmonizing. Even as my musical tastes have expanded, I still come back to his music, impressed by the purity of his arrangements and lyricism. READ MORE…

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The Bluegrass Situation premieres Charles Wesley Godwin’s new song “Coal Country”

“This song is about the coal industry in West Virginia in the past and present. It’s my best attempt to articulate, through music, the mixed bag of good and bad that it’s brought to us. On one hand, it has given economic mobility to countless families, including my own, in the 20th and 21st centuries and it has contributed greatly to the economic strength of the United States these many years. On the other hand, it has also taken the lives of thousands of miners, scarred the land, and has a somewhat dark history of companies taking advantage of workers and violating their rights. This song was completely influenced by my father. He’d been crawling in coal for years when he was my age, so I just wanted to make something beautiful out of that sacrifice. This was the only way I knew how.” — Charles Wesley GodwinBluegrass Situation

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Los Angeles dream-folk duo Rainstorm Brother shares new video at The Bluegrass Situation

In Their Words: “When I was young, there was a forest fire caused by a lightning strike in the gulch right behind my house outside of Tucson. As I was walking by the sea one night in Los Angeles watching the sunset, I remembered that fire. Maybe the memory of a brush fire is a more adequate way to describe a sunset. Tyler built a beautiful track around the words that feels like the ocean sounds.” READ MORE…