Music Country

“People forget that there is such a thing as having a difficult conversation,” says Aaron Lee Tasjan, calling Rolling Stone Country from the road, where he’s touring with Social Distortion. “In real life, you can’t just delete the thread.” It’s a lot harder, even, to delete a song, something that …

Kip Moore, Cassadee Pope and several other country performers will participate in the 2018 ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp, scheduled to kick off Thursday in Nashville. Running June 14th to 20th, the ninth annual ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp will also feature participants Danielle Bradbery, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum, …

Kinky Friedman has been a busy man, juggling his longtime gig as a road-ready songwriter with extracurricular activities like political campaigns, a stream of detective novels and cigar manufacturing. For all his whirlwind activity, though, Friedman hasn’t released an album of all-new original material in four decades. He brings that …

Lilly Hiatt has released a new video for “Records,” the anthemic rock & roll centerpiece to 2017’s Trinity Lane. The video, part touring diary, part love letter to vinyl, and part live performance, was filmed during Hiatt and her band’s recent tour with the Drive-By Truckers. “We’ve spend the last …

Camila Cabello has brought rising country singer Kane Brown on for a sultry new remix of her hit single “Never Be the Same,” giving Brown a chance to show a new level of stylistic diversity. Zeroing in on an obsessed, hurts-so-good kind of attraction, much of Cabello’s dark-pop ballad remains …

Michael Ray‘s Amos won’t hit stores until June 1st, but the country chart-topper is already performing the album’s kickoff track, “Fan Girl,” in concert. “For months, we have been playing these songs on the road,” he says, “and we start most every show with ‘Fan Girl,’ so it was time …

“We are thankful to get to be a part of country music. We are thankful we get to live in a country where our voices can be heard. We are hopeful that together we can create a better world for our children.” So wrote Thomas Rhett in an Instagram post …

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood revealed Ricky Skaggs, Dottie West and fiddle player Johnny Gimble as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame on Tuesday morning. Brooks, a Hall of Fame member, and Yearwood (a onetime Hall of Fame tour guide) both held back tears as they …

Charlie Daniels crafted Wednesday night’s 20th installment of his long-running Volunteer Jam as a celebration of himself and who can blame him? The Country Music Hall of Fame member will turn 82 in October, and he’s been taking stock of what he’s accomplished, both through a memoir – Never Look …

The 1980 film that arguably did as much for women in the workplace as it did for Dolly Parton‘s crossover move from country to pop is getting a timely reboot. Deadline reports that 9 to 5, which starred Parton in her breakout role alongside film veterans Lily Tomlin and Jane …