Music Country

Erin Enderlin likes to give some credit to Reba McEntire for her decision to pursue a career in songwriting. As a young kid who was obsessed with country music, Enderlin came across an article about the “Fancy” singer in which McEntire’s mother had instructed the performer to start figuring out …

Aubrie Sellers plumbs the complicated depths of her psyche in the chillingly candid “Worried Mind,” a track from the singer’s upcoming album Far From Home. In the just-released video for an acoustic version of the tune, shot in a diner in a single take by director Chloé Aktas, Sellers sings, …

The Grammy Museum Mississippi will present country music great Charley Pride with the inaugural Crossroads of American Music Award in November. The Sledge, Mississippi, native will head to the small Delta town of Cleveland in his home state to receive the honor on November 1st. Presented to an artist “who …

In conversation, Ketch Secor, the Old Crow Medicine Show frontman and fiddler, is always ducking down the backroads and side alleys of American musical history. And it’s impossible to not tag along. Credit his old-soul personality and charisma, but especially his encyclopedic knowledge of country music, which makes him a …

Tanya Tucker‘s new album While I’m Livin’ was a triumphant return for the living country legend, whose last studio album came way back in 2003. Tucker joined fellow outlaw artist Elizabeth Cook at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday for a special AmericanaFest interview and performance, …

Country Radio Seminar (CRS) isn’t usually the kind of place for grand statements — if anything, the annual gathering of country radio programmers in Nashville is a time when artists play it safe in hopes of scoring some eventual airtime. You strum your single, you crack a joke. You offend …

The nominees for the 53rd annual CMA Awards were revealed Wednesday morning, with Maren Morris leading her peers this year with six total nods. The Texas native will vie for Female Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year, for 2019’s Girl. The album’s uplifting title track also landed …

Tanya Tucker’s poignant cover of Miranda Lambert’s 2010 Number One hit “The House That Built Me” paints an emotional tableau vivant of bittersweet childhood recollection. Now, the video for the track, taken from the country legend’s just-released While I’m Livin’ album, unlocks decades worth of photographic memories, serving not only …

Sturgill Simpson has released the first song off his upcoming album Sound & Fury. “Sing Along” is a supercharged distorted rocker that finds Simpson growling, “You done me wrong, so here’s your song, now sing along,” in the chorus. Sound & Fury will be released September 27th, the same day …

Since 1935, the southern Virginia city of Galax has hosted the world’s oldest Fiddler’s Convention, which just completed its 84th year. Adults and young people from around the globe come to the convention to compete not only in old-time fiddle-playing, but in other instruments and disciplines, including Dobro, banjo, guitar, …