Credit: Missing Piece Group

Credit: Missing Piece Group


“Exile,” a new single from Tampa Bay expats Swearingen & Kelli finds the now Nashville-based songwriter duo recording with Grammy-winning producer Mitch Dane (Jars of Clay, Blind Boys of Alabama) who’s managed to make the couple’s heartbroken, nostalgic brand of Americana feel even warmer than it did before. This homecoming show comes less than a week before a new album, Cold-Hearted Truth, drops on September 20.

Swearingen & Kelli. Sat. Sept. 14, 6 p.m. $15. Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg. Hideawaycafe.biz.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ipuh38jss0o

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...