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Justin Townes Earle is already too big for Denver. Well, at least his name is for the marquee at the Bluebird Theater.

There it was, in huge, black, block letters, stretched across the bright-light billing that once advertised porn to the passersby on Colfax Avenue:

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JUSTIN TOWNES EARL

He should have at least been given that extra "E" for effort. But that's what sometimes happens when yo… Continue

Love was in the air Saturday night at the Bluebird Theater in Denver, along with more than a few volts of static electricity. Naturally, because it was the eve of St. Valentine’s Day, the official name of the holiday with a patron saint not named Cupid. So what better way for couples to express their feelings for each other than by checking out a Colfax Avenue nightclub.

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Close to delivering her eighth record and first child (in that order), Allison Moorer seems far removed from her previous life as a Country It Girl. In a New York state of mind now, her memories of Alabama, where she was born, and her once-adopted home of Tennessee aren't nearly as warm as the weather down there.

She still makes records in Nashville and occasionally goes back with her husband, folk hero/rock renegade/outlaw countryman… Continue

Colorado was in the midst of a deep freeze, not completely unexpected for January but still unusual for Denver as it prepared for plunging temperatures usually associated with the National Western Stock Show.

On the Mile High City's coldest day of the year - even the decade, for that matter (OK, 2010 was only seven days old) - venturesome music lovers needed somebody to bring some heat to combat the sub-zero conditions.… Continue

A self-proclaimed redneck who enjoys talkin' and singin' about boys, booze and bullets, Miranda Lambert was made to play the Grizzly Rose Saloon & Dance Emporium.

There's nothing fancy about Denver's massive honky-tonk, where the mechanical bull looms in the back and the beer-swilling buckaroos line up 10 deep at the front of the wraparound bar undoubtedly built to impress the biggest of Texas-sized… Continue