Angel Olsen showed an affinity for working with classic country sounds on her latest album Big Time, which came out in June. On Tuesday, Olsen released an updated version of the title track, which features country maverick Sturgill Simpson. A lilting countrypolitan waltz about the rush of falling hard for …
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Prior to performing a swerving version of Lucinda Williams’ “Drunken Angel” for an intimate dinner party in Nashville on Monday night, Jason Isbell remarked how some songwriters just can’t write a good song anymore. But Williams, he said, was so unfailingly talented that she could restart her career right now …
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Next month marks the five-year anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in Las Vegas, which killed 58 people and injured more than 800 on Oct. 1, 2017. A new four-part docuseries, 11 Minutes, streaming Sept. 27 on Paramount+, looks at the massacre via cell phone video and Las …
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Stagecoach, the three-day country music festival in Indio, California, has announced its 2023 lineup. As in years past, it’s typically eclectic, with not-quite-country artists like Bryan Adams, Melissa Etheridge, and ZZ Top joining headliners Luke Bryan, Kane Brown, and Chris Stapleton. Sunday’s lineup, headlined by Stapleton, should be particularly appealing …
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This past July, 39 people died, and thousands were left homeless after record floods descended upon communities in eastern Kentucky. On Oct. 11, Chris Stapleton, Dwight Yoakam, and Tyler Childers — all of them natives of the Bluegrass State —will come together for a benefit concert to aid victims, their …
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Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has released a new single, “Born & Raised.” The rollicking track was recorded with producer Vance Powell and features Raconteurs bassistJack Lawrenceand Eagles of Death Metal drummerJulian Doro, along with keyboardistMike Webb and steel guitaristLuke Schneider. The reflective song sees Shiflett referencing his West Coast …
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Brandi Carlile’s new album In the Canyon Haze reimagines the songs on her 2021 LP In These Silent Days through the lens of L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. On release day, Sept. 28, Carlile and her band will bring the album to vivid life with a live performance broadcast to IMAX theaters. …
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Miranda Lambert interprets Billy Joe Shaver’s “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)” as a barroom jam with tinkling piano, a swinging rhythm, and drawling vocals. The track is the latest release from the upcoming Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, …
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Mya Byrne’s new song “Autumn Sun” was written as soon as the smoke cleared, literally. The California singer-songwriter was on the porch at home in Berkeley with her friends in the aftermath of the destructive and deadly California wildfires in 2018, sipping coffee and enjoying nature. “It was the first …
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Tyler Childers and his band the Food Stamps are adding a little extra shot of ambition to the fall, announcing plans for the new triple album Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? on Thursday. The project, which follows Childers’ 2020 release Long Violent History, will be released via Hickman …
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