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New music is the lifeblood of Highway 309. Here's a Spotify playlist of some of the new songs you're hearing when you travel this eclectic highway.
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Mississippi Heat bandleader Pierre Lacocque gives a nod to his maternal grandmother and his wife on the band's new album "Madeleine."
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Chicago-based journalist Catalina Maria Johnson will use music illustrations as a way of understanding the history, roots, and concerns of Latinos in this land when she appears at the Normal Public Library on Saturday, Aug. 6.
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The Bloomington-based blues-rockin' band Old Smoke continues its music evolution despite key band member Adam Humphreys moving to Georgia.
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Ahead of the Black Dirt Music Festival in Bloomington this weekend, Chris Vos of the Record Company digs into his story growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm.
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Peoria native Brianna Thomas on her new album reaches back to Nina Simone for current context, and writes about forgiveness on her new album "Everybody Knows."
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Great Value Jesus band leader Noah Renken-Kapatos says the borderline gaslighting of fundraising emails from former President Donald Trump inspired the name of the Bloomington band's new album.
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Folk-rocker (and WGLT Summer Concert headliner) Lilli Lewis writes about the homeless people and others she describes as "invisible" on her new album "Americana." She said these are the folks who helped picked her up when she was nearly homeless after running away from home.
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Americana singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton once defined professional success as selling out concert venues. That definition changed when success grew into something different and far richer than she had imagined.
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Bloomington folk-rocker Chicago Farmer speaks with WGLT's Jon Norton about his new EP "Fore!", his hero John Prine, and how he's thrilled to be back on tour.