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Covenant School Tragedy Inspires Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Pam Ross’ Emotional Tribute
Pam Ross, an award-winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spent most of her life in Houston, and currently resides in North Carolina. However, it was her time spent in Nashville that truly solidified her position as one of the Up-and-coming Songwriters to Watch on the Nashville circuit. Ross performed for BMI industry showcases and had multiple stints at the renowned Bluebird Café and other local venues, establishing herself as an accomplished and talented artist.
It was her deep connection to Music City that inspired Pam to write her latest single, “Falling Off the Merry Go Round.” This poignant song was born out of the frustration and heartbreak she felt in the face of the ongoing plague of school shootings that continues to devastate communities across the country. As a society, we are failing our children and each other, and Pam believes that we all play a role in creating the world we live in. With over 175 deaths in school shootings since Columbine, it’s time to take action and develop real solutions to this ongoing crisis.
“Falling Off the Merry Go Round” will be available on April 21, 2023, accompanied by a music video that is currently in production.
Pam Ross has an unmistakable style that blends rock, Americana, and country into a unique sound that her fans have dubbed “Pam Music.” In June 2022, she began recording her album, “When Therapy Fails,” with a group of incredibly talented musicians at Goodluck Studio in Chapel Hill, NC. The album features ten songs, with the first single, “Fire In The Hole,” released on November 28, 2022. The song quickly garnered rave reviews from radio and top playlisters, and the music video, produced by Rob Underhill and Evelyn Putnam, received Official Selection in the Europe Music Awards. It has also been nominated for Best Music Video in the Carolina Film Festival 2023 and the Franklin Flix Indie Film Festival 2023.
For more information about Pam Ross and her music, please visit her website at https://pamrossmusic.com/home.
Artist Spotlight
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” finds a new direction through Ghost of Panama
Rearranging a song that carries six decades of cultural weight is a creative challenge, but Ghost of Panama approaches “Subterranean Homesick Blues” with clear purpose. The rock band radically reworks Bob Dylan’s counter-culture hit, reshaping its identity while keeping its rebellious spirit. It’s a tribute to musical heritage and a statement of artistic independence all in one.
This new interpretation is very much shaped by the production, made at Ghost of Panama’s home studio in West London. The setting allows an intimate approach to reinterpreting a familiar song and lets the group engage directly with the material, taking it in a new artistic direction.
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” centers on the tension between conservation and transformation. Ghost of Panama is true to the song’s rebellious spirit without adding to its legacy, and this approach gives the release an adventurous feel, grounded in countercultural energy but driven by a desire to see what the composition can become in a different musical context.
Their version of this 60-year-old classic shows that respecting a song’s history can also mean breaking the rules and finding new ways to express its spirit. Fundamentally, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” presents Ghost of Panama as artists who want to engage with the past without being tied to it. The release’s strongest identity is a familiar heritage reimagined through a singularly forward-looking creative vision.
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“NO MORE” by Amanda Holley connects healing, awakening, and survival
“NO MORE“ carries that kind of emotional weight, and some songs feel like they come from lived experience but reach for something bigger. Amanda Holley blends R&B and soul, turning a lifetime of survival into a vision of healing, awakening, and the determination to move beyond what caused the pain.
“NO MORE“ is a healing anthem for people who have gone through bad experiences and reached a place of higher awareness, but it’s also an emotionally charged protest. The duality is introspective and outward-looking at the same time, turning personal survival into a broader declaration that some experiences, conditions, or cycles should end.
Holley had a premonition of the song six months before the world went into global shutdown. In the vocal booth, working out melodies with her collaborators, she pictured people in the streets. Those images were hard to imagine at the time, but subsequent events would make them painfully familiar.
“NO MORE“ is given a particularly contemplative underpinning by the context. The identity of R&B and soul leaves room for emotion. The song’s themes link survival, awakening, resistance, and the need for change. Amanda Holley is an artist using music to process personal endurance and a broader sense of social awakening. It’s got a complicated significance, and its release feels like a glimpse of a moment when personal intuition and public reality collided in an unexpected way.
Photo Credit: Yulia Shusharina
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