The Red Clay Strays will embark on a search for light within the darkness on their newly-announced album Made by These Moments. The country-rock band will release their second studio LP on July 26 featuring their most recent single “Wanna Be Loved.” “Made by These Moments shines a light on …
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Joe Ely‘s new album Driven to Drive is arriving Aug. 2, and leadoff single “Odds of the Blues” features vocals from his longtime buddy, Bruce Springsteen. The song was inspired by Ely’s time at the late-night bar TV’s in Lubbock, Texas. “There was always a dice game in the back …
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Jelly Roll continues to be everywhere: In Alabama, singing Skynyrd with Lana Del Rey, in Dallas, duetting with Kid Rock, and on Tuesday, in Los Angeles to perform a new song on the season finale of The Voice. The poignant acoustic track finds the singer dealing with mental health issues …
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Under a fingernail moon, surrounded by the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Highlands, North Carolina, JJ Grey & Mofro took a moment to soak in the beauty of this year’s Bear Shadow music festival. “This song is about my love affair with the ocean,” Grey noted of his …
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Morgan Wallen and Post Malone‘s collaboration “I Had Some Help” debuted at Number One on the Hot 100, Billboard announced on Tuesday, opening as one of the biggest debuts for a single this year. The single reps Malone’s second Number One of the year so far, following his collaboration with …
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Chris Stapleton and Dua Lipa have officially released their duet “Think I’m In Love With You” from the 2024 ACM Awards. The two musicians both confirmed the arrival of the live single on social media Monday, May 20. The original performance took place just last week, when Lipa surprised the …
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The contributions of Black artists to country music have been marginalized, minimized, and, in some cases, wholly erased from the genre’s history. A group of songwriters, singers, activists, and journalists aimed to set the record straight on Wednesday during a live panel discussion in Nashville. Dubbed “Act III: A Conversation …
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Lainey Wilson opened the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with a one-two punch of country flair: a cover of Little Texas’s 1993 hit “God Blessed Texas” and the TV debut of her own “Hang Tight Honey.” Flanked by her road band (with whom she recorded her upcoming album Whirlwind), …
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Noah Kahan and Kelsea Ballerini gave a two-song duet at the 2024 ACM Awards. The pair opened with “Mountain With a View,” a song off Ballerini’s ACM Album of the Year nominee Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good), before segueing into the title track of Kahan’s breakthrough album Stick …
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At the ACM Awards on Thursday, Miranda Lambert performed her recently released single, “Wranglers.” She had previously given the tune its debut at the Stagecoach Festival, where she also performed with frequent ACMs host Reba McEntire, in April. Lambert’s live debut of the track was appropriately fiery, as the cowboy-hat-clad …
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