The Mammals' brand new single "Make It True" bursts with harmonies, harmonica, and jangling guitars with hints of the Byrds, Fleet Foxes, and something distinctly "Mammalian.

Sometimes you just know when it's time to go home.

If you're able to focus on anything other than Caitlin Canty's quiet and compelling voice (hard, I know, but try), it'll be impossible NOT to notice just how much Russ Pahl's pedal steel adds to "Motel.

It can be a real challenge to keep your heart and your mind open to the possibility of love.

Harmony, by definition, is the synergistic coming together of disparate parts to create a whole that is, very often, greater than the sum of its parts.

Change is unavoidable.

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Few things recall an era as quickly and clearly as citing "wood panel walls and shag carpet," as Deb Talan does in "Joshua Tree in the Headphones.

If ever there were a "Hardest Working Band" award, Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors might well be nominated to take it home: in 2015, after more than a decade of making music together, this hard working, East Nashville based band released Medicine, an album that made several "best of the year" lists and an album that was, according to front man Drew Holcomb, their "arrival record.

In 1973, the late great Merle Haggard, one of the many music superstars who died this year (shakes-fist-in-anger-at-2016), bravely called into question the idea that Christmas actually is NOT the happiest time of year.