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On a somber night at the Grand Ole Opry following news of Toby Keith’s death, Darius Rucker took the stage to pay tribute to the country star with a cover of Keith’s “God Love Her.” “We woke up to some sad news this morning. Country music lost Toby Keith, and …

Zach Bryan once again paid tribute to one of his favorite artists (and recent collaborators), Bon Iver, by posting a cover of “For Emma” on social media. Just hours after dropping the Matthew McConaughey-starring video for the new song “Nine Ball,” Bryan uploaded his stripped-down take on the 2007 track …

Stephen Colbert took a few minutes on The Late Show to pay tribute to Toby Keith, who died this week at age 62. Colbert, who called the country singer “one of the greats,” recalled being friends with Keith. “I was shocked and saddened when I saw the news this morning,” …

Toby Keith, who injected Nineties and 2000s country music with an unapologetic dose of patriotism and an unrelenting swagger in songs like “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” “How Do You Like Me Now?!”, and “Who’s Your Daddy?”, died Monday following a diagnosis of stomach cancer. …

The country music community has begun mourning Toby Keith, who died Monday at 62 following a battle with cancer. His fans and peers remembered the singer and songwriter as the soundtrack to their lives and a trailblazer in his own right in various tributes shared across social media. “Saddle up …

Nine years since her last live television performance, Tracy Chapman made a rare appearance at the 2024 Grammy Awards to sing her 1988 hit “Fast Car” with Luke Combs, the country star who turned a new audience onto Chapman’s song with his cover version and earned a Grammy nomination in …

Zach Bryan is celebrating his Grammy win with a new music video, starring one of his heroes. On Monday, the country songwriter released the visual for “Nine Ball,” which casts Matthew McConaughey as the drunk gambling father that Bryan sings about on the track, off his Boys of Faith EP. …

You only had to look at Jason Isbell’s silhouette to realize what song he was about to perform at the MusiCares tribute to Jon Bon Jovi on Friday night in Los Angeles. Wearing a large-brimmed hat and a long duster coat and holding — the giveaway —a double-neck guitar, it …

Fresh off Billy Strings and Chris Thile’s first collaborative concert, the Grammy-winning bluegrass artists reconvened once again for a television audience as part of CBS Saturday Morning’s Saturday Sessions. For the performance, the virtuosic guitar picker and the mandolin master delivered three traditional bluegrass classics: the oft-covered “I Am a …

Darius Rucker was arrested Thursday on drug charges in Williamson County, Tennessee,according to multiple reports. The country singer was released on a $10,500 bond on the same day. Rucker, a country music star and the singer of Nineties stalwarts Hootie & the Blowfish, faces charges of simple possession, casual exchange, …