Singer Jessy Wilson has released the funky new tune “Clap Your Hands” from her upcoming solo album Phase. The member of Americana duo Muddy Magnolias collaborated on the project, out May 3rd, with Patrick Carney of the Black Keys. Built on a deep, hip-hop-inspired drum groove, “Clap Your Hands” piles …
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Rising country crooner Logan Ledger recently released the first two singles from his eponymous debut album, produced by T Bone Burnett and due in October. “Starlight” and “Imagining Raindrops” form a resounding introduction for the California native, who works in an aesthetic best described as “Country Noir.” “Starlight,” with its …
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Lori McKenna performs a solo rendition of “The Fixer” off her album The Tree in this new video filmed for YouTube’s Nashville Sessions. It’s a particularly dramatic reading by the New England songwriter, who shines a light on the complicated relationship between a man who is perpetually toiling away on …
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It’s a little after 2 o’clock on Great Stirrup Cay — Norwegian Cruise Line’s “private island” in the Bahamas —and the Bacardi Beach Bar is blaring Steve Earle‘s escapist 1986 rocker “Someday.” About 200 yards away in a discreet cabana, within earshot, sits Earle himself, reclining on a chair in …
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Jennifer Nettles channels the dueling pain and beauty of womanhood in her moving new solo track “I Can Do Hard Things,” which she introduced today with a short essay. Accompanied only by some understated guitars and drums, “I Can Do Hard Things” finds its fulcrum on the powerhouse Sugarland singer’s …
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Brooks & Dunn are gearing to release their first recordings together since 2007 withReboot, which pairs the superstar duo with a group of younger performers including Luke Combs, Kacey Musgraves and Brothers Osborne. On Thursday, they announced the official track listing for the album, due out April 5th, and posted …
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Maren Morris will have some high-profile guests on her upcoming second albumGirl, as both Brothers Osborne and Brandi Carlile make appearances on the March 8th release. Carlile guests on the previously released “Common,” which ponders the difficulty of different people trying to reach understanding. They also performed the song live …
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Texas-based singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker imagines several different characters going about their lives in the new video for his song “Canyon.” The powerful, mostly acoustic tune appears on Walker’s debut album Wish You Were Here, released on January 25th. “I’m afraid of flying, afraid of falling, truth be told/I’m don’t …
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“I ain’t the devil, just the devil you know,” howls Jared Deck on the rollicking “Great American Breakdown,” the lead single from his newly announced sophomore album,Bully Pulpit. The Oklahoma-based troubadour evokes the hard-driving blues blend of late-Sixties Rolling Stones and soulful Southern gospel while maintaining his blue-collar earnestness on …
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Keith Urban is gearing up for a busy summer festival season. The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year has five fests already on his schedule and just added another: Urban will headline Michigan’s Faster Horses Festival with Toby Keith and Zac Brown Band. Set for July 19th through 21st in …
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