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  Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

  Pots-n-Prints offers learning opportunity for kids at annual Arts Festival

  The Lubbock Arts Alliance will welcome Pots-n-Prints to the Lubbock Arts Festival scheduled for April 8-10 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, 1501 Mac Davis Lane.

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  Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

  Back on the trail: First Friday to bring art lovers to downtown Lubbock

  The First Friday Art Trail, a free, self-guided public art tour, is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. around downtown Lubbock.

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  Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

  Holiday Happening again: Junior League of Lubbock eager to bring back festive tradition

  Holiday Happening runs from Wednesday through Sunday at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center

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  Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

  Street closures announced for Lubbock's First Friday Art Trail

  This month, due to increased pedestrian traffic on Avenue K and Mac Davis Lane during First Friday Art Trail, sections of each street will be closed to increase safety for pedestrians.

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  Pitchfork

  Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires Exit Country Music Association After 2020 CMAs Didn’t Honor John Prine

  They’ve returned their membership cards after Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver were snubbed. Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price offered scathing criticisms, as well.

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  Good Morning America

  CMA Awards 2020 recap: Maren Morris wins big, Eric Church takes home the night's big honor

  It was a celebration of country music during the 54th annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night in Nashville, Tennessee. The Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker hosted ceremony kicked off with an emotional tribute to country great Charlie Daniels, who unexpectedly died in July. Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, and Ashley McBryde delivered a show-stopping medley of Daniels' songs, including "Trudy," "Texas," "Long Haired Country Boy" and "The Devil Went Down to Georg

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  Good Morning America

  Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker debut 'In the Ghetto' collaboration at 2020 CMA Awards

  Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker debuted their new "In the Ghetto" collaboration in honor of late country great Mac Davis at the 54th Annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night. Davis, who died in September 2020 following heart surgery, famously penned the song for Elvis Presley, who released the track in 1969. McEntire and Rucker, the hosts of the 2020 CMA Awards, recorded "In the Ghetto" together in October; it will be released on all streaming services at midnight ET.

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  Good Morning America

  Artists pay tribute to country legends Charlie Daniels, Kenny Rogers and more at 2020 CMA Awards

  Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne and Ashley McBryde opened the 2020 CMA Awards with an emotional tribute for late country great Charlie Daniels. The Country Music Hall of Famer died unexpectedly in July at the age of 83 after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. Daniels won a Grammy award for best country vocal performance for the song he was best known for, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” in 1979.

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  Variety

  Mac Davis Was ‘The Blake Shelton of the 1970s,’ Says Fellow Songwriter Bobby Braddock

  When I heard two or three days ago that Mac Davis was critically ill after heart surgery, I said, “God, please, I don’t wanna write a eulogy about Mac Davis.” Last night, when a friend told me she'd heard some sad news, I knew what it was. Mac Davis, a native of Lubbock, Texas who […]

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  Rolling Stone

  Mac Davis’ ‘In the Ghetto’ Was a Famous Hit for Elvis, But ‘Memories’ Deserves Another Listen

  Presley debuted Davis' mournful ballad about the passing of time during his 1968 comeback special

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