One year ago this week, Eric Church celebrated the final moments of his 2017 tour on the Las Vegas Strip, where he played an outdoor show to 22,000 attendees at the Route 91 Harvest festival. “You guys have fun tonight in Las Vegas!” he shouted from the front row, after …
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A long-awaited song from the Pistol Annies, Brothers Osborne‘s new single and Lucie Silvas‘ glorious “Kite” are among the 10 country and Americana tracks you need to hear now. Pistol Annies, “Got My Name Changed Back” Miranda Lambert celebrates her independence with this countrified kiss-off. “It takes a judge to …
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The annual AmericanaFest, now underway in Nashville, celebrates the best in roots music through dozens of showcases, special events and the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony at the Ryman Auditorium. While the origins of the Americana movement can be traced back several decades, it would be impossible to overstate the …
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John Prine‘s wistful yet wise “How Lucky,” first recorded for his 1979 LP Pink Cadillac and produced by Sam Phillips in Memphis, gets a Bluff City update from Grammy-winning Memphis-based producer Matt Ross-Spang for Amazon Music’s “Produced By” series. Listen to the song here. Rather than celebrating the nostalgia of …
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Lenny Kravitz‘s poignant moment with Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash after the 1995 death of the rock star’s mother inspired a new song on Kravitz’s latest album Raise Vibration. In an interview with the BBC, Kravitz recalls how he was staying with producer Rick Rubin in Los Angeles, where …
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Dolly Parton will become the first country-music artist to be named the MusiCares Person of the Year in the honor’s 29-year history. The Recording Academy will salute the Tennessee native, who rose from poverty in the Smoky Mountains to become a global superstar, at a February 8th, 2019, ceremony in …
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The oil is hot and bubbling gold, but Tyler Childers is not flinching. It’s dinnertime here at his rental cabin north of Nashville, where he’s holed up for a few nights, and the songwriter is standing in front of an electric stove with one hand in some cornmeal and one …
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Kenny Chesney’s latest album Songs for the Saints was released on July 27th, and the country superstar is still making the television rounds in support. On Tuesday, he stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to sit down for an interview and perform album single “Get Along.” Chesney and …
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An impressive array of Grammy-winning artists, including Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Steve Earle and Graham Nash, will embark on a five-city tour this fall in an effort to end the Trump administration’s family separation policies. Organized by the Women’s Refugee Commission, which has been advocating ending the practice of detaining …
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Ringing electric guitars may be at the core of Blackberry Smoke‘s smoldering Southern rock sound, but the Georgia natives’ songs sound just as good when the band unplugs. Case in point: a new acoustic version of “Best Seat in the House.” One of the highlights of the group’s latest LP, …
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