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    Nicole Atkins: Darkness Falls So Quiet

    Nicole Atkins finds a new musical path.

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    By Ariana Morgenstern • Jan 4, 2018 • 1 min read

    A month long stint in rehab provided Nicole Atkinswith a new career phase. While there, she met a hip-hop music producer who told her to stop messing around with indie-rock cause she was a soul singer. Atkins ended up recording an album's worth of songs inspired by the likes of Dusty Springfield, Candi Staton, and Loretta Lynn. Check out “Darkness Falls So Quiet.”

    Photo by Anna Webber

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