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Nick Gusman's Smart Songwriting Is Bringing New Fans to Roots Music

2 years 1 month ago
When Nick Gusman answers the door of his Tower Grove South bungalow, he's wearing a T-shirt from a writers' week festival for high school students that I booked him for back in 2019. Performing on stage in the high school auditorium, Gusman had been in solo acoustic-and-harmonica folkie mode, playing and singing songs from his then-new debut album, Dear Hard Times. Despite playing for an audience of teenagers who had never willingly listened to folk music much less had ever heard of Nick Gusman, the troubadour nonetheless won the kids over, one of whom later told me that he "didn't think he liked that kind of music" but that he loved the songs and sounds coming out of Gusman that day.
Steve Leftridge

Body of Missing Mizzou Student Riley Strain Recovered From River

2 years 1 month ago
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, this morning recovered the body of a 22-year-old Mizzou student who was missing for the past two weeks.  Police say Riley Strain was recovered from the Cumberland River in West Nashville Friday morning, approximately eight miles from downtown.  “No foul play-related trauma was observed,” the Metro Nashville Police Department said.
Kallie Cox