Erin Osmon
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Waylon Payne Mines Nashville’s Contradictions, Yet Honors Outlaw Roots on New Album ‘Wayward’ (opens the original)
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On a recent Wednesday evening, Waylon Payne stood on the modest stage at East Nashville honky-tonk Skinny Dennis, backed by a four-piece band. Dressed in a rhinestone-dotted Western shirt and worn-in jeans, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter explained that the next song he was set to perform was born of a self-conscious effort to be more well-read. “I walked into Half Price Books and bought Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, and a book by Ralph Waldo Emerson,” he said, cradling his acoustic guitar
Nanci Griffith and The Impossible Double Standards of 'Storms' (opens the original)
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Editor's Note: Erin Osmon has been awarded one of two No Depression Criticism Fellowships to write in-depth album reviews on roots music's most important albums. Read her previous review of Roger Miller's A Trip In The Country here, and stay tuned for more from both No Depression Criticism Fellows all year long. Since the advent of popular music, female musicians have been held to impossible standards — to rules and principles that undoubtedly change when applied to their male peers. Though the
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