{"id":3114,"date":"2014-04-01T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2021-09-08T05:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:58:28","slug":"from-love-to-murder-to-ufos-a-dark-serenade-to-kansas-chuck-mead-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/uncategorized\/from-love-to-murder-to-ufos-a-dark-serenade-to-kansas-chuck-mead-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"From Love To Murder To UFOs, A Dark &#8216;Serenade&#8217; To Kansas &#8211; Chuck Mead on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Mead Free State Serenade Cover\" width=\"2833\" height=\"2832\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped-480x480.jpg 480w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped-120x120.jpg 120w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped-100x99.jpg 100w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ChuckCornMaster_cropped-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2833px) 100vw, 2833px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nashville is where you go to make country music,&#8221; Chuck Mead says. &#8220;There&#8217;s a certain song vibration down here. There&#8217;s a whole songwriting culture and playing culture that really doesn&#8217;t exist outside of New York, or Los Angeles or Chicago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mead arrived in Nashville 20 years ago and fit right in: He co-founded the Grammy-nominated alt-country group BR549, and has made his name as a singer, songwriter and musician in his own right. His latest album, however, is all about his home state of Kansas. It&#8217;s called Free State Serenade, and it includes true stories of love, murder, and \u2014 Mead swears \u2014 UFOs on the high plains, from a perspective the artist could never have captured had he stayed home. He calls the music &#8220;Kansas noir.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/03\/29\/295811941\/from-love-to-murder-to-ufos-a-dark-serenade-to-kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hear the full story at the audio link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Frank Morris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nashville is where you go to make country music,&#8221; Chuck Mead says. &#8220;There&#8217;s a certain song vibration down here. 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