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A double dose of female led country bands that are rising through the honky tonk ranks across the country.

Rachel Brooke – truly is one of those “if you know, you know” artists. She’s a master storyteller, underground country queen, Ameripolitan outlaw winner, multi-instrumentalist, honky tonk poet, raised on bluegrass and red tomatoes.

She’s the  “The Rattlesnake” – a name given to her while drumming in a punk band during her teenage years – ever evolving, existing on the fringe of country music, bucking the system, and never losing the game.

ROSY NOLAN – With her cowgirl hat, platinum bob and 1940s Western getups, L.A.-based artist Rosy Nolan looks like a throwback to the midcentury heyday of California honky-tonk legends such as Rose Maddox and Jean Shepard. But the San Francisco native honed her performance chops in riot-grrl and post-punk indie bands across the US and the UK before finding a home in L.A.’s tight-knit old-time community. Now a confident bandleader and guitarist whose vulnerable songs and onstage charm have endeared her to audiences across Southern California and around the US, Nolan is in the vanguard of L.A.’s latest Country music resurgence. She’s planning an April West Coast tour with Detroit country artist Rachel Brooke, and her single “One of Your Songs” advances her fourth album, due this summer from Blackbird Record Label.