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John Prine made eight separate appearances on Austin City Limits over the course of his career. On Saturday, new episodes of the long-running live-music series return with a show devoted to Prine’s posthumous induction into the ACL Hall of Fame. Ethan Hawke inducts Prine in a hat-tipping speech but it’s …

Lola Kirke dropped by CBS Saturday Morning’s Saturday Sessions to perform three tracks from the actress/singer’s upcoming EP Country Curious. For the mini-set, Kirke — who has previously appeared in films like Gone Girl, Lost Girls, and Mistress America — delivered her 2023 singles “All My Exes Live in L.A.” …

Joe Bonsall, the charismatic tenor of the Oak Ridge Boys, has retired from touring with the vocal quartet. The 75-year-old first joined the country-gospel group in 1973, following his departure from the Keystones. Bonsall recorded dozens of albums with the Oak Ridge Boys and sang on such country staples as …

Joe Don Rooney, best known for playing guitar in one of country music’s most successful groups, Rascal Flatts, has broken his long silence since pleading guilty to a 2021 DUI. In a lengthy social-media post, he affirmed his sobriety and also dispelled a rumor that he was transitioning. “There have …

Jimmie Allen’s lawyers have filed a motion to withdraw as the country singer’s legal counsel in his two separate sexual assault cases, but they are facing pushback from one of the Jane Doe plaintiffs. Last month, Allen’s lawyers Jonathan Cole and Katelyn R. Dwyer filed a motion asking the court …

When Willie Nelson asks if you have any songs he can sing on, you always say “yes.” That’s the lesson delivered by Charley Crockett, who duets with Nelson on the new collaboration “That’s What Makes the World Go Around.” According to Crockett, the Red Headed Stranger was recently recording at …

When Wyatt Flores opened for Charles Wesley Godwin at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville earlier this month, he surprised fans by weaving a rendition of the Fray’s 2006 hit “How to Save a Life” into his set list. Shortly after Christmas, the 22-year-old songwriter from Stillwater, Oklahoma, dropped a studio …

Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks (now the Chicks) who played on the country act’s first three albums, has died at the age of 65. Lynch died following injuries sustained in a car accident on a highway outside of El Paso, Texas, TMZ first reported and the …

Ever since his CMA Awards performance with Morgan Wallen and Hardy, Post Malone has seemingly been bopping around Nashville. He was spotted at Duke’s bar in East Nashville earlier this month and is reportedly holed up somewhere in town working on his long-anticipated country project. He also collaborated with Wallen …

The trailer for Willie Nelson & Family, the four-part documentary by directors Thom Zimny and Oren Moverman, offers a glimpse of the colorful life of the Red Headed Stranger. The clip features some of the rare archival clips that anchor the film, including images of Nelson playing his guitar Trigger, …