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Zach Bryan finds himself having an existential crisis and longing for some peace in “Hey, Driver,” a song he released as an acoustic performance video on Friday. The tune doesn’t appear on any of the ACM Award-winning Oklahoma songwriter’s albums to date. “Hey driver, pull on over, I’m in a …

When Jake Owen announced the track list for his upcoming album Loose Cannon, his first in four years, one song’s writing credits stood out above all the others: “On the Boat Again” is credited to Devin Dawson, Kyle Fishman, Rocky Block, Blake Pendergrass and…Willie Nelson. It’s easy to hear why. …

Brothers Osborne describe the feeling of a big loss starting to sink in with their new track “Goodbye’s Kickin’ In.” The song is set to appear on the duo’s as-yet-unannounced follow-up to 2020’s Skeletons. “Goodbye’s Kickin’ In” is the groovier, funkier side of Brothers Osborne, featuring an insistent bass pulse, …

Grief is a weird thing, frequently and unexpectedly rocketing toward you with enough power to alter your worldview, make you feel as if you’re drowning, and even see people who are no longer there. That’s been the experience of the Cadillac Three’s singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, who lost his father, the …

Paul Cauthen canceled a pair of his concerts this weekend after the country singer was arrested on drug charges in South Carolina on Thursday morning. On Friday, Cauthen abruptly canceled that night’s gig in Knoxville and Saturday’s show in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee “due to extenuating circumstances.” “Sorry folks. Some things …

Morgan Wade is headlong in a kind of love she’s never felt before in “Psychopath,” the first single and title track from the “Wilder Days” artist’s second album. Psychopath the album will be released Aug. 25 via Sony Music Nashville. “Psychopath” is a gently rising and falling waltz that, contrary …

Ahead of the opening night of Garth Brooks’ new Las Vegas residency, the country superstar has already announced that his Plus One stand at the Colosseum at Caesars Place will extend into 2024. “When the 2023 shows went on sale, I felt extremely fortunate and blessed. To even think I …

Willie Nelson’s 1998 album Teatro stands as one of his latter-day best. It’s an immersive, transcendent listening experience produced by Daniel Lanois that features Emmylou Harris on haunting background vocals and finds Nelson reimagining songs like “Darkness on the Face of the Earth” and “My Own Peculiar Way.” Remarkably, it …

Jamey Johnson, Chapel Hart, Jake Owen, Exile, and Randy Travis will all appear at June Jam 2023, Alabama’s long-running charity concert benefiting disaster relief in Alabama. Set for June 3 in Fort Payne, Alabama, it marks the revival of the festival, first held in 1982. Along with Alabama’s Randy Owen …

The ACM Awards aired live from Texas on Thursday night in the Dallas suburb of Frisco —located just 12 miles from Allen, Texas, where a gunman killed eight people last weekend at a shopping mall. It was the U.S.’s 199th mass shooting of 2023 and the second-deadliest of the year. …