If Ray Benson isn’t onstage, he can likely be found on his bus, talking music with one of his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel, big fat joint in hand. Tonight, he’s sharing that joint with singer and fiddler Katie Shore, a prominent part of the Western-swing group’s latest LP, …
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One of AmericanaFest’s most uplifting off-campus offerings was Queer Roots, a first-time showcase celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities represented across roots music. Held at East Nashville bar the Crying Wolf, the event was presented by Change Project, BriteHeart, Strange Fire, Hearth PR and Rolling Stone Country. Nashville’s …
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Carrie Underwood hosts a vibrant, colorful party for unity in the new “Love Wins” video. The hopeful song is the latest single from Underwood’s upcoming album Cry Pretty, which will be released Friday, September 14th. “Love Wins” aims to be a balm in divisive times, with Underwood reaching across the …
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With “Over the Hill,” the latest track to be released from John Hiatt‘s upcoming LP, The Eclipse Sessions, the 66-year-old songwriting legend offers craggy bits of wisdom and wit on aging, singing, “I’m long in the tooth, what can I say / I take huge bites of life and I …
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Kings of Leon will pay tribute to the disco hits of the Seventies and Eighties when they headline the 2018 Harvest Night at Music City Food + Wine Festival in Nashville, which will also feature performances by Sheryl Crow and Little Big Town. Set for September 15th, Harvest Night promises …
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“She is the greatest singer that ever lived,” Chris Stapleton said of Aretha Franklin onstage at the Forum in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Country’s preeminent vocalist then paid tribute to the singer he called his “all-time favorite” with a typically powerful take on Franklin’s 1967 hit “Do Right Woman, …
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Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, but she was also an interpreter of songs from all genres, including country and folk music. Franklin died Thursday at 76 after a bout with pancreatic cancer, leaving behind a catalog that showcased her diverse range. Here are six of her best country …
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For the second time, the Country Music Association will stage its CMA Songwriters Series in the U.K. and Europe, with shows throughout the month of October spotlighting artists like Ashley Campbell and Charlie Worsham in an intimate format that emphasizes the stories behind the songs. Launching October 8th in Stockholm, …
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The date is November 25th, 1990, and Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood are upstairs at Muscle Shoals Sound Recording Studio cutting an album — not for Drive-By Truckers, but for their first band, Adam’s House Cat. Twenty-eight years later, that album, Town Burned Down, is about to see the light …
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The final group of artists slated to perform during the annual AmericanaFest in Nashville have been revealed, with Amanda Shires, Tyler Childers and Rosanne Cash joining the annual music festival’s lineup. This year’s edition of the six-day festival will also include showcases by Birdtalker, Buddy Miller, Chris Shiflett, Elizabeth Cook, …
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