Rodney Crowell, Amy Speace, Nobody's Girl, and more on Mountain Stage

1900 Kanawha Blvd E,Charleston , WV WV 25301

22 August, 2021

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Rodney Crowell, Amy Speace, Nobody's Girl, and more on Mountain Stage with Guest Host Kathy Mattea ALL AGES Rodney Crowell, Amy Speace, Nobody's Girl Be a part of the small, but live audience as Mountain Stage records a fresh episode for NPR Music! This event will be held at 25% capacity for a small in-person, indoor audience. This event will also be offered as a live stream. This is a socially distanced event. You should arrive with whoever you intend to sit with for the show. Each pod will be escorted to available seats, first come first served. No more than 6 people per pod, please. A face covering - over-the-ear mask or gaiter - is required to be properly worn for all of those in attendance. The mask must be worn at all times while in attendance. Masks will be on hand if you forget yours. If you don't feel well, are experiencing a fever, etc, please stay home. Rodney Crowell With more than 40 years of American roots music under his belt, Texas native RODNEY CROWELL is a two-time Grammy Award winner with five Number One hits of his own, six Americana Music Association Awards including their Lifetime Achievement For Songwriter Award and a legacy of songwriting excellence which has made him an icon among giants. With strong roots in country music, Crowell has written chart-topping hits for the likes of Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Keith Urban and more. But owing to the distinctly universal, literary quality of his writing, has also penned beloved songs for artists as diverse as Bob Seger, Etta James, the Grateful Dead, John Denver, Jimmy Buffett and countless others. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Crowell is also the author of the acclaimed memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks, and teamed up with New York Times best-selling author Mary Karr for Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell in 2012, with Karr saying of her collaborator, “Like Hank Williams or Townes Van Zandt or Miss Lucinda, he writes and croons with a poet’s economy and a well digger’s deep heart.” Crowell was honored with ASCAP’s prestigious Founder’s Award in 2017, and that same year released the album Close Ties, which spawned another Grammy nomination for “It Ain’t Over Yet” with Rosanne Cash and John Paul White in the category of Best Americana Song. In 2018, he opened his own record label, RC1, and has released Acoustic Classics and his latest album TEXAS on August 15, 2019. Amy Speace “What Amy Speace says – what she sings – she says with a confluence of poetry and honesty, of emotional specificity,” The New York Times. One of the leading voices in the new generation of contemporary folk singer-songwriters, Amy Speace was discovered by Judy Collins in 2006, who signed Amy to her own Wildflower Records and recorded her song “Weight of the World”. In 2009, that song was named as #4 in “Top 10 Folk Songs of the Decade” by NYC’s top AAA radio station. Since then, Speace has released one critically acclaimed record after another, gathering awards and international press. In early 2020, she was awarded “International Song Of The Year” by the UK Americana Music Association for the title track to her latest album, “Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne” (Proper Records/Tone Tree). A classically trained actress and playwright, her songs are explorations of the human experience, combining direct honesty with poetic detail. Her voice is a crystalline wonder, epic and intimate. She will be releasing her 8th record, “There Used To Be Horses Here” on Proper Records on April 30, 2021. Nobody's Girl Hailing from Texas, Alabama, and Georgia, respectively, and now neighbors in Austin, BettySoo, Grace Pettis, and Rebecca Loebe have individually bewitched audiences with unforgettable songwriting for years. Friends now for a decade, they first met at the legendary Kerrville Folk Festival, each winners of the prestigious annual “New Folk” award there. Beautiful singers, effortless instrumentalists, and seasoned touring artists– they recognized that what each can accomplish individually could be made all the stronger by this collaboration. Originally, the band was conceived as a one-time tour; a chance for three friends & like-minded peers to travel and perform together for a few weeks. The of their Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” cover was hastily created to promote that tour before garnering over twenty thousand views on Facebook within days of posting. Coupled with that 20-city tour, the spark had been set, the fire lit. Upon their return, they quickly (within 36 hours) wrote some songs together and entered the studio with a core band of Austin all-star musicians: David Grissom (guitar), Glenn Fukunaga (bass), J.J. Johnson (drums), Ricky Ray Jackson (pedal steel) and Michael Ramos (keyboards, also the producer of the project) to document what they’d just created. Delving into pop-rock and soul territory fully and deliciously, their pristine voices blend so well, it’s sometimes hard to tell who’s singing what - even for them. The effect is like listening to sisters, until they trade off lead vocals. Then the distinctive, complementary elements of their voices becomes thrillingly evident. Their debut EP Waterline (under the band name “Nobody’s Girl”) on the Lucky Hound label is out now! Rodney Crowell, Amy Speace, Nobody's Girl