Ally's Corner

  Blogmas Day Nineteen: Hey y'all, so as I mentioned yesterday, today I'm talking about Americana Country  music!    I've been into Americana Country since the late Spring and I love it. Artists such as Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons (whose collaborative work I mentioned yesterday, you can find that little write up here ) and a modern duo that I'll be raving about a lot today, The Secret Sisters have been all over my playlists.    So anyway, The Secret Sisters have some incredible music, harmonies as high in quality as The Everly Brothers', and not a lot of fans. If y'all ain't heard their stuff, I suggest you try it. My favorites are the same-tragic-story-from-different-point-of-views pair " Mississippi " and " Iuka " and " Tommorow Will Be Kinder " which was featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 film, The Hunger Games.    I cover their semi-upbeat yet extremely sad ballad " He's Fine " in my live sets often a...

  Blogmas Day Eighteen: Well, as most of y'all know by now, I'm a crazy music lover and we've seen posts about Niall Horan ,  Ta yl or   Sw ift ,  Harry Styles ,  The Love Junkies (Lori McKenna, Liz Rose and Hilary Lindsay) ,  Justin Moore and Priscilla Block ,  Ashley McBryde ,  Olivia Rodrigo ,  Kelsea Ballerini ,  Carrie Underwood ,  Abbey Rowe  and  Abbi Scott  on this here blog.    Anywho, I love me a duet and have recently-ish gotten into a lot of Americana Country Music, which could have a whole post. I have been super obsessed with Emmylou Harris since before Halloween. And obviously, as it happens, Emmylou led to me getting into "the tragic nut", as I've started calling him, Gram Parsons .    It's simply impossible to be a  musicaholic and not know at least a little about these two.    Their duet and collaborative projects are so stunning and their voices very mu...