Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. The addition of two new country categories — Best Traditional Country Album and Best Contemporary Country …
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Rhett Miller revisits a song he co-wrote nearly 10 years ago, with Turnpike Troubadours singer Evan Felker, to announce his new solo album, A Lifetime of Riding by Night. “Come as You Are,” featuring Felker on harmony vocals, is a lilting ballad about separation from those you love. In Miller …
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“If I had an idea that gave me a feeling, I would pursue it,” Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker tells Rolling Stone. “On this record, it was all about trying to find songs in a very different manner than overthinking things, or trying to let people know that I could …
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Cross Canadian Ragweed sized up the expectations —months of comeback hype, a stadium filled with fans doing the wave, a five-band lineup of Red Dirt icons, and an introduction by Oklahoma State University football coach Mike Gundy —and then made a collective decision to blow right past them. The Oklahoma …
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Nashville musicians are coming together to raise money for those impacted by the Los Angeles fires. LA Revial will bring together Dwight Yoakam, Turnpike Troubadours, Cam, Corey Kent, Carter Faith, Shane Profitt, and Brit Taylor on stage at Bridgestone Arena, with all proceeds going to the MusiCares LA Fire Relief …
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Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are returning to the road this summer to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Outlaw Music Festival, and they’re bringing along Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, the Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Waxahatchee, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Hornsby & the …
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By any measure, Cain’s Ballroom should be too small for Charley Crockett. But on a sweltering August night — when the Oklahoma heat and humidity gave the air conditioning system of Tulsa’s timeless honky-tonk a battle for the ages — Crockett didn’t get caught up with the size of the …
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On Thursday evening, a thunder filled the Remington Bar on Central Avenue in downtown Whitefish, Montana, when raucous Nashville act Hogslop String Band took the stage at the watering hole to signal the official kickoff to Under the Big Sky festival. Since its inception five years ago, UTBS has emerged …
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The Turnpike Troubadours are coming home again for two nights, and so is “King of Oklahoma.” Turnpike will play January 19-20 at Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center, joined by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Together, they represent two of the hottest acts in independent music and two of the most …
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Read Southall still sings about his gritty Oklahoma upbringing, but he knows a breakthrough when he sees one. “I don’t think our doors have ever been opened like they are right now,” Southall tells Rolling Stone. This was less than a week before Southall — a rebrand from the Read …
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