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Three years ago this week, Hardy was on his way back from a concert in Bristol, Tennessee, when his tour bus careened off the road and rolled down an embankment. The country singer, his photographer, his then-tour manager, and bus driver were all flung about the cabin and seriously injured. …

On her new album Nobody’s Girl, out now, Amanda Shires writes in candid detail about her marriage and divorce, never more so than in the song “The Details.” It’s an elegiac ballad with brooding strings and piano, and devastating lyrics. “You erased the details in our history,” she sings in …

Amanda Shires arrived a little late for her interview with Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast: The Americana singer-songwriter got pulled over by the police. When she couldn’t find her registration, Shires began rooting through her glove compartment with the officer as the contents of her life spilled out. “I got …

Four months after news broke that she and Jason Isbell were divorcing, Amanda Shires opened a pair of concerts for Isbell in Colorado. The singer-songwriter, who addresses the end of her marriage and the reclamation of her independence on her new album, Nobody’s Girl, says she played the gigs simply …

When it comes to men and women in country music, the playing field is far from level. During this week’s episode of Rolling Stone‘s Nashville Now podcast, singer-songwriter Dasha shares her firsthand experience with the uneven balance of power in Nashville, especially when it comes to what artists can and …

There’s a dark side that comes with the kind of viral success Dasha experienced with her song and line dance “Austin (Boots Stop Workin’).” Not only did the song become a TikTok sensation and a Spotify streaming juggernaut (it’s approaching 1 billion streams), but it also opened up the California …

Ketch Secor, the charismatic leader of Old Crow Medicine Show, dropped his new solo album, Story the Crow Told Me, earlier this summer and celebrated it with a special concert at the Station Inn, Nashville’s historic bluegrass outpost. During the show, Secor also announced his new role as host of …

Country music has a long history with guns and gun culture, from songs about handing down family heirloom rifles to harvesting that first buck of the season. Ketch Secor, the leader of Old Crow Medicine Show, is a gun owner, but never thought he’d become a staunch advocate for gun …

Alabama hip-hop artist Clever got his big break when the late rapper Juice WRLD shared one of his songs on his Instagram page, instantly gaining him thousands of followers overnight. That helped also put him on the radar of Post Malone, who discovered Clever’s song “Stick by My Side” with …

Music fans, and specifically pop fans, may know the rapper who goes by “Clever” from his feature with Post Malone on Justin Bieber’s 2020 hit “Forever.” But to country music listeners, Clever — born Joshua Huie — is mostly a complete unknown. The Alabama-born artist is on a path to …