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Why a Wave Of New Country Artists Are Singing the Blues
A wave of new country artists — including Preston Cooper, Ty Myers, Kashus Culpepper and The Red Clay Strays — are singing blues music these days.
Valory released Preston Cooper ‘s first radio single — “Weak,” bolstered by Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar tones and Hammond B-3 — to broadcasters via PlayMPE on April 23. Culpepper’s catalog invites comparisons to Keb’ Mo’ and Leon Bridges, and his latest track — “Southern Man,” released March 27 — features sweaty slide guitar from bluesy Americana figure Marcus King. Black workers in the mid-1800s — both slaves and free men — were primarily limited to difficult jobs with no possibility of upward mobility, and they used music to keep a consistent pace at their labor and express their misery.
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