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Lonnie Holley and Mountain Man Make The New Yorker’s Top 10 Albums of 2018

Congratulations to two Big Ears 2019 performers, Lonnie Holley and Mountain Man, whose albums have made the year-end top 10 of New Yorker critic Amanda Petrusich. She calls Mountain Man’s harmony-framed Magic Ship “heavy with acquired wisdom” and Holley’s Mith “an excess of love and imagination.” You’ll also find Big Ears vets Mary Lattimore and Nathan Bowles on the list.

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