Tribute Bands vs. the Originals Who Knows the Music Better?
Connecticut Public Radio | By Lori Mack
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Marty Ray Project
Country Acts
Nashville, TN, USA
Marty Ray Project is a band that has accumulated over 1.5 million fans and 200 million views across all platforms in the 10 years they have been in the music business. His covers such as: Ice Ice Baby, One Day, Simple Man, Old Town Road, and I Fall Apart have amassed millions of views, just to name a few.
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Allison Russell
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
Allison’s new album, Outside Child ––that draws water from the dark well of a violent past–– is her first solo offering, she also being a pivotal voice in two bands: Birds of Chicago and Our Native Daughters. And telling her own story sounds now to have made her free –– not from it all, but free within it: to reframe and reclaim her identity and its singular authority.
The songs themselves ––though iron-hard in their concerns–– are exultant: exercising haunted dream like clean bedsheets snapped and hung out into broad daylight, and with the romantic poet’s lust for living and audacity of endurance.
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Geoffrey Miller
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Sacramento, CA, USA
Through the years, Miller has shared stages with country, western swing, blues, and rockabilly legends Biff Adam, Jimmy Latrell, Bud Duncan, Bobby Black, “Little” Charlie Baty, “Big Sandy” Robert Williams, Al Hendrix, Sleepy LaBeef, and Deke Dickerson
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Darius Rucker
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Charleston, SC, USA
Darius Rucker first achieved multi-Platinum status in the music industry as lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the GRAMMY Award-winning band Hootie & the Blowfish, who have sold more than 25 million albums worldwide including their Diamond-certified debut Cracked Rear View, which remains among the Top 10 best-selling studio albums of all time.
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Hannah Belle
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Covington, LA, USA
Having headlined hundreds of festivals around the U.S, graced the Country Music Association’s Fan Fair X stage in Nashville and opened for the likes of Sawyer Brown, Frankie Ballard, Diamond Rio, Bucky Covington, T Graham Brown, Jo’el Sonnier, Shenandoah, Joe Diffie, and Josh Thompson, she has her sights set on what's to come.
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Cody Joe Hodges
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Hermitage, Nashville, TN, USA
Cody Joe Hodges' music has been described as “real country”, highly influenced by the country greats of the 80's & 90's. With a high-energy performance and his brazos bottom drawl, it is rare that you will find someone who reaches across the aisle to both the old and new generations, but Cody Joe does it every time.