On the eve of the release of one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the year, Tanya Tucker will play the first of three intimate shows in celebration of While I’m Livin’, the outlaw-country legend’s first LP of all-new material in 17 years. Tucker will take the stage of …
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Back when a then-unknown Colbie Caillat released her breakthrough song “Bubbly” in 2007, in a time when MySpace still walked the earth, she and her songwriting partner Jason Reeves didn’t know what to call the relaxed, acoustic pop song when they posted it to her gleefully decorated profile. So they …
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“I’ve been telling people for 40 years that ‘I will survive,’” Gloria Gaynor tells Rolling Stone Country backstage at an intimate album release event at the Analog lounge in Nashville’s Hutton Hotel. “With this record, what I’m hoping to accomplish is to show people how to survive. How I survived …
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Carrie Underwood, Maren Morris and Kelsea Ballerini are among the artists that will take the stage at the 2019 CMT Music Awards. CMT announced the initial slate of performers on Wednesday morning, a roster that spotlights some of contemporary country’s most popular entertainers. Along with that trio of women, each …
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When Luke Combs first played a solo, acoustic “Beer Never Broke My Heart” at one of his concerts way back in January 2018, fans responded as if the brand new song were an old favorite. Chalk it up to the North Carolina singer-songwriter’s gift for crafting sharp hooks and on-the-nose …
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Dave Matthews Band welcomed blues singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi to the stage on Wednesday night for a searing take on Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer.” The 11-minute version of the sprawling epic, originally found on Young’s 1975 album Zuma, was performed during the band’s show at the Vystar Veterans Arena in …
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When it comes to the lack of gender parity at country radio, there are many forces at play, and many ways to analyze the data, from a casual glance at festival lineups to the recent report from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative that took a …
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Held annually on the eve of CMA Fest in Nashville, Marty Stuart’s Late Night Jam has proven to one of the most eclectic events each year. Stuart’s 18th edition of the freewheeling concert, set for Wednesday, June 5th at the Ryman Auditorium, will include performances from rock legend Steve Miller, …
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Fresh off a quick solo tour through Europe, Chris Shiflett returned to his podcasting duties with a new episode of Walking the Floor with Parker Millsap. Not that their conversation was entirely new: Shiflett says he culled the episode from his “backlog” of recordings, having sat down with the Oklahoma-reared …
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HBO’s Game of Thrones returns for its final few episodes on Sunday, April 14th, and accompanying the violent epic this time around will be For the Throne, an entire soundtrack of new songs by contemporary performers including Travis Scott and the National. The latest release from the album, which comes …
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