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in Germantown Aug. 24 and is with the Black Opry Revue at Wiggins Park as part of the Xponential Music Festival on Sept. 17.may have gotten all the attention last Friday, but a bunch of other notable releases came out the same day, including new albums by Maggie Rodgers and King Princess, and this, the eighth and best album by Texan singer and fiddle player Amanda Shires.
Shires, who’s a co-founder of feminist country quartet The Highwomen as well as a member of husband Jason Isbell’s band, the 400 Unit, has written her most impressive set of original songs. Working with producer Lawrence Rothman, she’s singing with more full-throated self-confidence than ever on tracks that inch toward pop without leaving her country roots behind.
Houston often plays as a solo artist and she’s also the punk rock archivist at the San Francisco Public Library. She’s bringing the latest version of The Avengers, with original guitarist Greg Ingraham, to Fishtown on Tuesday. The Blessed Muthas and Lil Bambinos open.Since moving to Philadelphia from Richmond, Va., shortly before the pandemic, Lucy Dacus hasn’t has such good luck with hometown shows.
Then her date with Courtney Barnett at the Skyline Stage at the Mann Center last week was called off due to a storm. “If somebody hexed me,” sheFor solace, there’s this: a dreamy cover of “Believe,” the 1998 hit by Cher. Singing it, the indie songwriter said, “I did feel myself accidentally wanting to become Cher.”
“Believe” was a partial inspiration for “Partner in Crime,” a standout cut from Dacus’ excellent, diaristic 2021 release. Dacus has re-recorded that song — sans the Auto-Tune used on the original version — and released it in tandem with “Believe” as part of the Spotify Singles series., Carsie Blanton moved between those two emotional states with ardor and anger on songs that were partly inspired by the days of protest in Philadelphia that followed the death of George Floyd in 2020.
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