Tim McGraw is following up his latest album, Standing Room Only, with a surprise EP, Poet’s Resumé. The six-track project is anchored by opening number “Runnin’ Out of Love,” a galloping power ballad simultaneously rife with angst and full of romance. “I’ve tried running away and I ran out of …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves Just Did the Most Kacey Thing Ever: Surprising a Philly Gay Bar With a Fleetwood Mac Cover
Kacey Musgraves got at least one enthusiastic “yas!” on Monday night when she surprised an intimate Philadelphia gay bar with a musical performance. Musgraves is set to play Philly’s Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday night. Standing in the corner of Tavern on Camac — Philly’s longest running gay bar, according …
Read More »Brantley Gilbert, Dustin Lynch to Join Kyle Rittenhouse at Conservative Conference
This month’s inaugural AmericaFest 2021, a multi-day conference presented by Turning Point USA, has a predictably heavy-duty lineup of controversial speakers and politicians ready to gin up conservative outrage: Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene are among the usual suspects. But the event, set for Dec. 18 to …
Read More »Blake Shelton Hopes He Can 'Come Back as a Country Boy' on 'Fallon'
Blake Shelton celebrated the release of his album Body Language Deluxe this week with an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Voice coach and CMA-winning singer performed his current single, the amped-up “Come Back as a Country Boy,” which appears on the new deluxe album. Set against …
Read More »Keith Urban Announces Summer 2022 Tour Dates
Since the pandemic, the majority of Keith Urban’s live shows have been onstage in Las Vegas, part of his ongoing residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. This summer, however, the guitarist is returning to the road with the launch of the Speed of Now World Tour. Urban announced the …
Read More »2021 CMA Awards: Luke Bryan to Be the Show's First Solo Host in 18 Years
After nearly two decades of co-hosts, the CMA Awards are putting its 2021 show in the hands of a single artist: Luke Bryan will host the November 10th awards live from Nashville. Bryan takes over for last year’s emcee duo of Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker. “Being asked to host …
Read More »Jason Aldean Announces New Album, Wife Promotes Anti-Biden Clothing Line
Regular as clockwork, Jason Aldean will drop a new album in 2021. Titled Macon, it’s the first release of a two-part project. A second LP, Georgia, comes in 2022. But while Carrie Underwood’s duet partner is talking up his latest music on Instagram, his social-media influencer wife Brittany Aldean is …
Read More »Willie Nelson, George Strait Join Asleep at the Wheel for 'Take Me Back to Tulsa'
Asleep at the Wheel mark 50 years together as a band with the upcoming album Half a Hundred Years. It’s an all-star project, with artists like Lyle Lovett and Lee Ann Womack joining Wheel leader Ray Benson and his big Texas band. For “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” released on …
Read More »Dan + Shay Rob a Bank, Lead a Group Dance in 'Steal My Love' Video
Dan + Shay played to more than 10,000 fans in Nashville last Friday during a free outdoor concert on the release of their new album Good Things. This week, they dropped their music video for “Steal My Love,” a highly produced clip that finds the country-pop duo robbing a bank …
Read More »See Nanci Griffith Cover the Rolling Stones' 'No Expectations'
Nanci Griffith wrote songs that the music world loved to cover. With news of her death on August 13th at the age of 68, many are revisiting her folk and country standards — or learning about her incredible singing and songwriting gifts for the first time. But throughout the 1980s …
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