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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Read More »Sierra Ferrell, Tyler Childers Lead 2024 Americana Honors & Awards Nominees
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. …
Read More »Kaitlin Butts Is Leading a Red Dirt Revolution
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 …
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