Just days after the Highwomen played their first full show at the Newport Folk Festival late last month, the country supergroup of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires were guests on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, where they performed a commanding rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s Seventies classic, …
Read More »Baby You a Song: Big Machine's Biggest Hits
Related: Taylor Swift vs. Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta: What the Hell Happened? Details are still emerging about what precisely went down between Taylor Swift and Big Machine president/CEO Scott Borchetta prior to news of the label group’s sale to manager Scooter Braun going public on June 30th, but the …
Read More »Randy Rogers Band Salute Hell-Raising Fans in 'Crazy People' Video
Randy Rogers Band show their appreciation for a bunch of hell-raising fans in the new “Crazy People” video, which was released on Wednesday. The song appears on the Texas outfit’s latest album Hellbent, which dropped in April. As a song, “Crazy People” chronicles the transformation of a kid from his …
Read More »Tanya Tucker Returns With Wistful New Song 'The Wheels of Laredo'
Country legend Tanya Tucker returns this summer with the album While I’m Livin’, which marks her debut for Fantasy Records. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, the album consists mainly of songs penned by Carlile and her longtime collaborators, twin brothers Tim and Phil Hanseroth. “It’s a musical biography …
Read More »Sturgill Simpson Plays Bluegrass Set at Rare Grand Ole Opry Appearance
Sturgill Simpson made his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in four years on Tuesday night, nodding to his Kentucky roots by playing a bluegrass set with an all-star band of pickers that included Sierra Hull on mandolin and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdX3g34YhWs With his longtime drummer Miles …
Read More »Vince Gill Apologizes to His Mother in New Song 'A Letter to My Mama'
Vince Gill apologizes to his mother for being selfish and getting “too old to need you” in his heart-tugging new song “A Letter to My Mama.” The ballad is the first offering from the Oklahoma native’s just announced new album Okie. While the song begins with Gill saying ,”I’m sorry” …
Read More »'Game of Thrones': Yes, That Really Was Chris Stapleton
The living took on the hordes of dead Sunday night in an epic, bloody episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones titled “The Long Night” that will no doubt be debated intensely for weeks as the series prepares to wrap up its eighth and final season. Many fans from the country …
Read More »2019 ACM Awards: Keith Urban, Dan + Shay Win Big
“Did you know it snowed in Las Vegas just a few weeks ago?” host Reba McEntire asked the crowd during her opening monologue at this year’s ACM Awards. “It was so cold it froze us women out of Entertainer of the Year.” Reba was making light of the fact that, …
Read More »Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers Set for Inaugural Railbird Festival
Kentucky is quickly becoming the next great festival state, with the eclectically curated Forecastle Festival and Bourbon and Beyond, the hard-rock dream Louder Than Life and the new country-focused Hometown Rising all on tap for summer. On Tuesday, yet another music summit was announced: the inaugural Railbird Festival is set …
Read More »Jason Isbell Announces Inaugural ShoalsFest in Alabama
Jason Isbell has announced ShoalsFest, his first-ever music festival in his hometown of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Slated for October 5th, the one-day festival will feature main stage sets from Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow and Amanda Shires, in addition to a slew of yet-to-be announced …
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