Kelsea Ballerini is apologizing for past mistakes and getting her priorities straight on “Sorry Mom,” the new single from her upcoming album, Patterns, out Oct. 25. “Sorry Mom” begins with just Ballerini singing over the tender strum of a guitar, but the song soon picks up an atmospheric pop country …
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Right up there with Marty Stuart, Chuck Mead is one of the torchbearers of neo-traditional country music, that punky, jangly, and twangy sound that helped revitalize Nashville in the Nineties. Earlier this year, Mead and Stuart came together to write “Lonely Boy,” Mead’s latest single with his band the Stalwarts. …
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As the vibration of cicadas began echoing along the French Broad River in Asheville, North Carolina, last week, the Americana/indie sounds of Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters began to join in. AVLfest, the annual celebration of Asheville music, was underway. “It’s such a windy world out there/everybody keeps on …
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Et tu, Blake? The Ancient Roman-themed Colosseum venue at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas will welcome Blake Shelton for a residency next year. The performances will take place Feb. 5, 7, 8, 12, 14, and 15. The Colosseum, which opened in 2003, holds a little more than 4,000 spectators. Tickets …
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Kelsea Ballerini will continue her busy 2024 this fall with a new album titled Patterns. The album’s second single “Sorry Mom” — which follows the Noah Kahan collaboration “Cowboys Cry Too” — arrives Friday, with the LP to follow on Oct. 25. “I think that people probably expect this really …
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Elle King said she feels like a “different person” after embracing a new kind of therapy following her disastrous performance at the Grand Ole Opry’s Dolly Parton tribute show earlier this year. Speaking with Kaitlyn Bristowe on the Off the Vine podcast, King spoke a bit about the treatment she …
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Carly Pearce will fly city to city like a hummingbird: On Monday, the country star announced her Hummingbird world tour, in celebration of her new album of the same name, later this year. “So thrilled to be announcing the 2024/2025 hummingbird WORLD TOUR,” Pearce wrote on Instagram. Tickets for the …
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Aspiring wrestler Jelly Roll returned to the WWE Saturday at the SummerSlam event in Cleveland, where the country star doled out some punishment with a folding chair. The singer, a spectator for much of SummerSlam, stepped into the ring during a standoff that pitted Miz and R-Truth against Austin Theory …
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At the Toby Keith tribute concert in Nashville earlier this week, Lainey Wilson made a dramatic entrance on horseback, riding from the back of the arena to take her place in the spotlight onstage. The latest release from Wilson’s upcoming album Whirlwind continues her equine theme with help from another …
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Billy Strings prefers to play and drive fast, and he combines both of those pursuits in his high-octane new song and video, “Leadfoot.” The track is the first release from Strings’ forthcoming album, Highway Prayers. “Leadfoot” puts Strings firmly in the driver’s seat: he plays acoustic guitar, EBow electric guitar, …
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