Author: By Aaron Irons Last Word Features
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Country stars Brandy Clark, Mary Chapin Carpenter set to play at Pikes Peak Center Thursday
Brandy Clark long has been a lauded pen among Nashville’s ink well, landing hits with chart toppers such as Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert (among others) while also handily stepping out front with her own records woven from classic country music clarity and contemporary heart-on-the-sleeve fearlessness. On her self-titled fourth album, Clark is as powerful…
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Singer-songwriter Sunny Sweeney set to perform in downtown Colorado Springs
Sunny Sweeney is as adept at scuffed toe-to-bootheel honky tonk as she is at rib-crushing balladry. And on her latest full-length effort, “Married Alone,” the Texas native does what she does best by defying category and resisting cliche. “I always feel like the artist should be in charge of all things creative, and I was…
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Colorado resident Gregory Alan Isakov brings musical act to Colorado Springs
On his latest album, “Appaloosa Bones,” Colorado-based singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov crafts pop-up boom towns and misty villages filled with denizens as at home in last night’s neon as they might have been in the moonlight of 150 years ago. Initially planned as a more austere pursuit akin to 2018’s “Evening Machines,” Isakov progressed from…