Blog: Indie Muse

I immediately fell in love with Abigail Washburn's song "It Ain't Easy" after one of my friends shared it with me last year. I'm not all that familiar with her music, but I continually find myself going back to this song's gorgeous vocals and instrumentals. Washburn has a pretty interesting background. She had no intentions of focusing her career on music, and as a hobby, experimented with a lot of different genres including R&B, gospel, and reggae. It wasn't until a trip to China, where she immersed herself in the Chinese bluegrass culture, that this became her style. [...]

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