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My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are teaming up for the Eye To Eye Tour, featuring equal-length sets and a unique performance order swap at each show.

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Joy Oladokun was driven to pick up the guitar when she was 10 years old after seeing a video of Tracy Chapman performing ā€œFast Carā€ solo at Wembley Stadium in 1988.

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With her new record Proof of Life, the alt-folk guitarist and singer-songwriter wrestles with mortality and change, and emerges triumphant and hopeful.

ā€œItā€™s nice here,ā€ Joy Oladokun says through the phone. ā€œThe mountains are beautiful.ā€ The 31-year-old Nashville-based guitarist and singer-songwriter is taking a moment to breathe and clear her head in Asheville, North Carolina, while on tour with her friend Noah Kahan. Touring is fun, especially with pals, but itā€™s also tiring and stressful. Oladokun is doing her best to stay balanced since the release of her fourth LP, the lush, hopeful Proof of Life. The record indulges the best bits of pop, R&B, indie rock, and folk, all sewn together with Oladokunā€™s defiant optimism and vulnerable, late-night-diary-entry songwriting.

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The Jim James Epiphone ES-335 features a Seventies Walnut-finish with a 5-ply laminated maple body, a Jim James Custom SlimTaper C profile, and an Indian laurel fretboard with dot inlays.

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