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Texas features Kris Kristofferson in 1981 playing a solid program of his hits:

from-the-gut performance

Texas-based singer

All three are relatively new artists — the earliest of their solo debuts dates back to 2015 — but each has subtly reshaped the contours of the genre

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When Smoke Rises R&B Texas features Kris Kristofferson inOn his debut solo album, the Toronto artist formerly known as Mustafa the Poet confronts grief and dispossession over understated production with folk music overtones. When Smoke Rises is Mustafa Ahmeds first full length album as a solo artist, but its just the latest volume in his growing library of dispatches from Torontos Regent Park neighborhood. Ahmed, a founding member of rap collective Halal Gang, used to be known as Mustafa the Poet, having