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Women country session players form Side Piece. Plenty of gigging musicians who happen to be women have confronted the sexist perceptions that they’re weak links or, even worse, hangers on. Several of Nashville’s working female musicians, including fiddler Megan Mullins, drummer Megan Jane and bassist Annie Clements (who tours with Maren Morris), decided to team up under a band name that satirizes the stereotype. After quietly forming in January, they established a social media presence the following month and started building a following as the rare all-woman combo playing bi-weekly sets at a Lower Broadway honky-tonk — and they’re walking the inclusion talk by inviting all their sister shredders to sit in. —Jewly Hight…” Read More