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Thursday, August 19, 2021

ACL 2021: Vincent Neil Emerson

 Friday at 1pm.  This is my choice.  This post from a Texas Monthly article on him convinced me: "The Myrtle Springs native counts Colter Wall, Charley Crockett, and Jason Momoa among his fans. His new album should make you one too."  He's also liked by Saving Country Music.

This is a more upbeat song.  His lyrics are compared to Townes Van Zandt.  I can see why: from the Texas Monthly article:

"Off-stage, the cherubic Emerson has weathered a lifetime’s worth of hardship in his 29 years: his father’s suicide, alcoholism, his little brother’s death in a house fire, dropping out of high school at age seventeen, homelessness, and a best friend’s killing in an argument over drugs."

Here's his new album: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B08XSHW5BQ



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