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Reckless play

Country rock’s Reckless Kelly is already batting a thousand with its upstart label, No Big Deal Records. Its first release — the band’s seventh studio album, “Good Luck & True Love” — is the act’s highest-charting to date. And last week, it earned the group its first Grammy nomination. “That explains why I’m a little […]

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Reckless play

Country rock’s Reckless Kelly is already batting a thousand with its upstart label, No Big Deal Records. Its first release — the band’s seventh studio album, “Good Luck & True Love” — is the act’s highest-charting to date. And last week, it earned the group its first Grammy nomination. “That explains why I’m a little […]

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In the ear

Alive since 2009, the act is as eclectic as its stated influences: “The Sonics, Dick Dale, Muddy Waters, Tom Petty, Elvis, and the entire ‘Dirty Dancing’ soundtrack.” For the time of your life, you may want to attend to witness its blend of roots-rock rhythm and blues with a Texas redneck attitude. NITF!’s debut album, […]

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Shutter sounds

Picking up his new book, “Adventures of a Rock Photographer,” will get you stories and pictures from one of rock music’s most fertile periods: 1976-1986, with 165 of its 200 pages dedicated to 1977-1980. To illustrate just how top-heavy the era was in good music, consider Gowdy’s first assignment as a photographer at the University […]

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