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Twelve months on from the release of her acclaimed 2018 LP May Your Kindness Remain, Courtney Marie Andrews is commemorating its one-year anniversary with a stirring batch of acoustic covers, including the album’s title track and three other songs.

Cut in Nashville with Andrews alone on guitar, the stripped-down arrangement of “May Your Kindness Remain” showcases her in the soul-belting role she’s grown to fully inhabit. Warm and rich despite its sparseness, the new recording allows her voice to hit some spine-tingling registers, with nothing but her gently snapped...

Travis Wilkerson’s Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? was one of the must-sees on last year’s festival circuit, presented either as a straight-ahead documentary or through a “live cinema” environment wherein the writer-director presented his footage with an in-person voiceover. In whatever form it’s seen, many — from the Village Voice to the New York Times to Sight & Sound to Artforum to the New Yorker — spoke of it as a titanic experience, inciting chills for its exploration of personal history as a microcosm of national shame.

The theatrical version of Wilkerson’s project will be released next month by Grasshopper Film, and thus there is a trailer to mark the occasion. Overlaying the horrifying history with images of southern life and the ultimate image of decency, Atticus Finch, it gives some taste of the journey endured by its creator.

Watch below:

Formally audacious and emotionally powerful: a meditation on conscience and responsibility,...