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Flatland Cavalry frontman Cleto Cordero has pretty sound advice for Red Dirt bar bands making the sudden leap into theaters and onto festival main stages. “Keep your ears open whenever you walk on stage,” Cordero tells Rolling Stone. “We have in-ear monitors, and those things change how you’re perceiving reality. Pop them off, experience the room for 30 seconds, and then get to work.” Cordero, seated on a couch this past weekend in one of the half-dozen or so dressing rooms at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium,…

Film-maker Lucas Vernier’s grandfather was a member of the méhariste – the camel cavalry – during the French mandate in Syria, and Vernier traces his footsteps by embarking on his own journey to the Badia desert in 2009. Determined to revisit the places captured in his grandfather’s sprawling archive, Vernier’s documentary lends a tangible vitality to his family history. Once frozen in the frames of black-and-white photos, the Syrian soldiers who served in the camel corps live on in the memories of their descendants;…