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  "id": 12916416,
  "title": "Steve Martin and Alison Brown on Reinventing Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ as an All-Star Bluegrass Tune… With Added Lyrics About Buc-ee’s and Sasquatch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/steve-martin-and-alison-brown-on-reinventing-lil-nas-xs-old-town-road",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-08T17:22:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/music/news/steve-martin-alison-brown-old-town-road-bluegrass-interview-1236905706/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” was so ubiquitous for so long that you might’ve been happy to imagine you’d heard the last of it. But a cover version has just been released that’s pretty much guaranteed to make you pleased that road has turned out to be a roundabout. Steve Martin and Alison Brown […]",
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    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Billboard",
        "title": "Steve Martin, Alison Brown, Dan Tyminski & Del McCoury Give This Lil Nas X Hit a Bluegrass Spin",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/steve-martin-alison-brown-dan-tyminski-del-mccoury-give-this-lil-nas",
        "published": "2026-10-08T17:18:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Stereogum",
        "title": "Steve Martin, Alison Brown, Del McCoury, & Dan Tyminski Cover Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/steve-martin-alison-brown-del-mccoury-dan-tyminski-cover-lil-nas-xs",
        "published": "2026-10-08T19:53:43.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}