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Kaitlin Butts is shooting off fingers and poisoning suitors — including real-life husband Cleto Cordero of Flatland Cavalry — in the gloriously campy video for “You Ain’t Gotta Die (To Be Dead to Me),” the track off her album Roadrunner! that blew up on TikTok. The music video, directed by …

Now in its eighth year, Mile 0 Festival in Key West, Florida, has earned pilgrimage status. For fans of Red Dirt country music, the fest has become a yearly rite; for those who have yet to attend, it’s a must. This year, Mile 0 powered through a historic cold snap …

This spring, aspiring “indie outlaw” singer Sarah Gross performed a Patsy Cline-ified cover of “Red Wine Supernova” at a gig in Long Island. “Rip Hank Williams he would have loved Chappell Roan,” she wrote when she uploaded the video to TikTok in April, with a captionthat’d soon become prophetic: “The …

Tyler Childers and Sierra Ferrell are the leading nominees at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards. The Appalachia-reared musicians each scored three nominations — including Album, Song, and Artist of the Year — when the categories were announced on Tuesday at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. …

K AITLIN BUTTS IS SITTING IN an East Nashville coffee shop, wondering if she should tell Vince Gill that “Come Rest Your Head on My Pillow,” their romantic duet from her new album, Roadrunner!, was actually inspired by a woman in a funny but slightly crude tank top. “It had …

Kaitlin Butts wraps her Tulsa, Oklahoma, voice around Kesha’s “Hunt You Down” to create a version of the song that’s even more country-sounding than the original. Written by Kesha and Rick Nowels, “Hunt You Down” first appeared on Kesha’s 2017 album Rainbow. Butts’ interpretation arrives as a standalone single during …

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. …

Kaitlin Butts wasn’t specifically thinking about the political environment in her adopted home of Tennessee when she shot the video for “What Else Can She Do,” but her timing for releasing it could not have been more perfect. Filmed last summer at the Hamburger Inn in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the clip …