Mavis Staples, Melissa Etheridge to Perform at MerleFest 2021
After being forced to take a year off due to the Covid-19 pandemic, MerleFest will return in Fall 2021. The annual eclectic musical fest will take place September 16th to 19th in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, with a first round of performers that includes Melissa...
Margo Price Sings About John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr. in New Song ‘Long Live the King’
Margo Price both builds up and tears down her heroes in the previously unreleased song “Long Live the King.” A regular part of her live shows, the track has never appeared on an album and arrives Wednesday as the first installment of Price’s new mail-order record...
Connie Smith Previews New Album With ‘Look Out Heart’
Country Music Hall of Fame member Connie Smith will release her new album The Cry of the Heart via Fat Possum Records in 2021. The album’s first single, the rollicking “Look Out Heart,” is out now. Written by Smith’s husband Marty Stuart with Fabulous Superlatives...
Kelly Clarkson Performs Cover of Her “Big Fan” Reba McEntire’s Hit, “How Blue”
by Marcus K. Dowling 11h ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. “I’ve been a fan of Reba since I was a little girl. Her voice has always felt nostalgic for me. Even as an adult, there’s something about her tone and her storytelling that just feels like home,” said Kelly...
BREAKING: Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini To Co-Host ‘2021 CMT Music Awards’
by Jessica Nicholson 13h ago On Wednesday (May 12), CMT announced that Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini will team up to co-host the 2021 CMT Music Awards on June 9, 2021 at 7 p.m. CT. While Brown returns for his second consecutive year as host, this marks Ballerini’s...
WATCH: Dierks Bentley Returns to the Road With His High Times & Hangovers Tour
by Jessica Nicholson 15h ago Dierks Bentley gave fans a look at his first headlining concert in more than a year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when he headlined The Windjammer at Isle of Palms in Charleston, South Carolina on Tuesday (May 11), marking...
Jason Isbell Teams with Fender for Signature Model Telecaster
by Marcus K. Dowling 16h ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. Are you a country musician or fan wanting to add a greater impact to when you play noted singer-songwriter Jason Isbell’s hits like 2013’s “Cover Me Up?” Via a recent announcement by the performer regarding...
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Alan Jackson Is “Half-Retired,” But Still Picking Up “Crazy [Songwriting] Ideas” From His Kids
by Marcus K. Dowling 16h ago Alan Jackson’s forthcoming album Where Have You Gone is expected to highlight a few bittersweet notes for the veteran legend. “I just feel like [country music’s roots are] fading away,” he notes in a recent Tennessean interview. “It’s...
CMT Next Women Of Country Class Member Brittney Spencer To Make Grand Ole Opry Debut on May 14
by Marcus K. Dowling 16h ago Mainstream country surges continue to surround CMT’s Next Women of Country Class of 2021 as singer/songwriter Brittney Spencer’s breakout 2021 grows in acclaim with a scheduled May 14 appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. Regarding the...
Rodney Crowell Previews New Album With Urgent ‘Something Has to Change’
Rodney Crowell will drop a new album called Triage via his own RC1 label and Thirty Tigers on July 23rd. The first single, “Something Has to Change,” is out now. An urgent mid-tempo tune with particularly pointed lyrics, “Something Has to Change” addresses inequality...
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