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Elizabeth Cook and Boo Ray dive into the half-lit holiday spirit with “All Strung Out Like Christmas Lights,” a tribute to the timeless tradition of getting drunk and getting it on. Making its world premiere today, the track was co-written by the two left-leaning singers, who swap harmonies over a …

It’s no wonder Voice coach Blake Shelton continuously expresses his dismay that 21-year-old Ashland Craft isn’t on his team: the Piedmont, South Carolina native has a very good shot at winning the whole thing. Craft’s powerful, smoky rasp has drawn natural parallels to Chris Stapleton, but she also imbues her …

The 51st annual CMA Awards didn’t open with an all-star performance on Wednesday night, although it got to one of those quickly enough. It began instead with Eric Church alone on a half-lit stage, singing “Amazing Grace.” Country music has been battered in recent weeks, and this awards gala – …

Since the release of his debut single “Hurricane,” Luke Combs has been on a steady trajectory to country music success. Both that song and its follow-up, “When It Rains It Pours,” hit Number One on the country charts and the North Carolina native has grown his already hefty fan base. …

Hellbound Glory’s Leroy Virgil isn’t afraid to explore the lows to which desperate people will sink. In fact, it’s kind of the Reno, Nevada native’s forte. As far as lows go, robbing a strip club would seem to rank pretty high on the list, and that’s just what Virgil does …

Out of all the country stars of the Eighties and early Nineties, George Strait was perhaps the most unlikely candidate for movie stardom. The hit-maker was notoriously reticent to do on-camera interviews, and his performances emphasized songs above attention-getting stage moves. But Strait’s unpretentious charisma made him the perfect star …

Garth Brooks brought music to Atlanta’s brand new Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the first time on Thursday, October 12th, playing guinea pig in a space that had never hosted a show and hanging tough to – mostly ­– overcome a temperamental sound system. The massive steel and concrete cavern, which opened …

It might be a surprise to some that, 15 years after releasing her last record, Shania Twain was able to beat out Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato for the coveted spot atop the all-genre Billboard 200 with her new LP Now. To others, it was evidence that Twain’s role as …

In the final night of Blind Auditions on The Voice, 18-year-old Jeremiah Miller transformed the Niall Horan’s “Slow Hands” into coy fun. The second single from the One Direction member’s forthcoming solo debut Flicker, Horan’s bass-driven recording is a slinky homage to Eighties funk. But Miller, a Fort Worth, Texas …

Merle Haggard‘s death in 2016 was a huge loss to country music, but the author of the Bakersfield Sound appears to have passed the torch to his son, Ben Haggard. On July 30th, Ben Haggard released video of his solo acoustic version of Merle’s “Way Back in the Mountains.” Appearing …