Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts

Dec 30, 2021

Justin Wells Gives Back to Kentucky with "Blue Moon of Kentucky"

We don't post a lot of press releases verbatim here, but this is for an important cause... rebuilding Kentucky after the recent devastating tornado. And if you can't donate money, you can help out by simply streaming Justin Wells' excellent new cover of "Blue Moon of Kentucky!" 

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This year has been tough for everyone, but especially those who have been affected by natural disasters outside of their control. On December 10, 2021, Western Kentucky was hit by a tornado that caused catastrophic damage and killed 77 people and counting. Justin immediately started brainstorming ways to help the families who were directly affected. On December 14th, he went into the studio and recorded an emotional rendition of Bill Monroe’s classic, Blue Moon of Kentucky. We were able to turn the song around in 24 hours and release it exactly two weeks after recording. The point of recording and releasing the song is not about furthering Justin’s career, or chasing a viral moment, but is about creating hope for those who feel like all is lost. This song is very special to Justin as the people of Kentucky have given him and his family so much. Our pledge is to give 100% of streaming revenue to United Way of Kentucky’s Tornado Fund, with a portion immediately going to the Muhlenberg Music Mission.


Links to donate:

United Way - https://www.uwky.org/tornado

Muhlenberg Music Mission -

https://www.muhlenbergmusicmission.org/?fbclid=IwAR3Ca_SNjvLj8vJ-JWY5Q6kp-P2rr91Yl3SuEi72zIkc

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Links to song:

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/4vqSl9IeIDpeonzNCgO0Vx?si=bc2f1c243e23454e

Bandcamp - https://justinwells.bandcamp.com/track/blue-moon-of-kentucky

Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/blue-moon-of-kentucky-single/1602191422

Amazon Music -

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B09P878PB8?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&

ref=dm_sh_0pKztCWBUmUCmFntoyKnvYlEf

YouTube Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O014w1igvZ0

Feb 4, 2019

New Blood: Tiffany Williams

by Robert Dean

Once again, someone originally from Kentucky is out there killing it. Kentucky needs it’s own country music category right now because as I keep saying, the stuff coming out of The Bluegrass State is unfuckwithable. 

Despite now living in Nashville, Tiffany Williams is pure Eastern Kentucky. Plus she’s even got all of those good ole prerequisites: Williams is a coal miner's daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. 

Williams collection of songs on When You Go is a fitting tribute to her home in the Appalachian Mountains, the singer-songwriter bleeds a genuine fire that’s hard to not fall in love with because of its attention to detail, but also it’s a willingness to let the heart do the talking instead of flash. 

Up in them hollers, they’re onto something special, it might be the water running through the mountains, but whatever it is, Williams belongs in the pantheon of Kentucky musicians we’re celebrating. 


"I love Appalachia as I love myself," she says, "with an intimate understanding of its shortcomings and virtues, with compassion and forgiveness, and with fierce hope. It’s home and always will be, but, for me, it took moving away to write about it."

If you’ve got a need for some country that hits you in the guts with an emotional baseball bat, give Tiffany Williams a listen, the songs on When You Go wallop, but word of warning: if you’re prone to being lonesome when a chord hits just right at that dark hour of the night, you might have just met the devil howling away on six strings. 

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