Singer-songwriter Kelsey Waldon has announced plans for the new covers EP They’ll Never Keep Us Down, her first release since 2019’s White Noise/White Lines. Out November 20th, the project includes versions of Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam,” featuring Adia...

Mickey Guyton, Travis Denning, and Dustin Lynch are among the artists performing as part of the upcoming Farm Rescue benefit concert in Nashville. The virtual event, held in partnership between Farm Rescue and John Deere, takes place December 9th at Brooklyn Bowl...

Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, and Gabby Barrett are among the initial group of performers announced for the 2020 CMA Awards. The annual event will bring numerous country artists together in one room for the first time this year when it airs live Wednesday, November...

A month after surprise-releasing their latest album, the dark sign-of-the-times LP The New OK, Drive-By Truckers have posted a potent video for the album’s title track. Featuring footage from the summer of protests in Patterson Hood’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, the...

Billy Joe Shaver, who died Wednesday at 81, wrote country songs about what he knew firsthand: sin and heartbreak, hard living and hard working, and ultimately salvation. Waylon Jennings famously cut a bunch of them for 1973’s Honky Tonk Heroes, and Willie Nelson, Kris...

by Alison Bonaguro 2h ago With everything Miranda Lambert has going on in her life right now — her brand new single, her newlywed life with her husband, seven nominations at the upcoming CMA Awards, and the death of her dog Waylon — it’s hard to fathom how she fit one...

by Alison Bonaguro 3h ago If you’ve been on Instagram at all this week, you’ve surely seen what has now become a trend that is trending for all the right reasons. It’s called the Battle of the Boos, and it’s just in time for Halloween (Oct. 31). The gist of it is, the...

by Alison Bonaguro 4h ago Wynonna Judd met her brother for the first time this week. She is 56 years old. He is 53 years old. So what took them so long to connect? Judd shared the whole meandering story when she called into SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live show, and it...

by Alison Bonaguro 7h ago No matter how unprecedented the current state of the pandemic feels for all of us, one of the hardest hit communities right now is the farming families who feed America day in and day out, quarantine or not. And early on Thursday morning...

Billy Joe Shaver, the outlaw-country music pioneer who wrote some of the genre’s greatest songs, died Wednesday in Waco, Texas, after suffering a stroke. He was 81. Connie Nelson, a friend of Shaver’s, confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. Shaver’s hard-lived career...