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Lynyrd Skynyrd have postponed this weekend’s stops on their Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour so that founding member Gary Rossington can recover from a recent heart procedure. The 67-year-old guitarist had been experiencing fatigue, according to a press release, and underwent surgery to fix a leaky heart valve …

Zac Brown Band will unveil their new album The Owl on September 20th. The eclectic country-rock band announced the record with the release of the piano ballad “Leaving Love Behind” on Friday. A subdued heartbreak song in the vein of ZBB’s 2010 hit “Colder Weather,” “Leaving Love Behind” pushes Brown’s …

When CMT debuted the genre-mixing concert series CMT Crossroads in 2002 with Americana darling Lucinda Williams and English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello performing each other’s songs, the network established a musical mutual admiration society that continues to this day. A year after CMT Crossroads premiered, the network was slowly but transitioning …

Thomas Rhett joins up with Kelsea Ballerini to look back at the intertwined sweetness and recklessness of youth in the new duet “Center Point Road,” the title track from Rhett’s upcoming album. Named for a stretch of pavement that cuts through Hendersonville, Tennessee, where Rhett grew up, “Center Point Road’ …

The Voice wrapped up its 16th season on Tuesday, crowning Maylyn Jarmon of John Legend’s team the new victor. During the all-star finale episode that included appearances by Taylor Swift and BTS, country and country-adjacent artists Hootie & the Blowfish, Travis Tritt and Toby Keith all stopped by to sing …

Laine Hardy, an 18-year-old Louisiana native with a warm, raspy voice, was named the Season 17 winner of American Idol. The singer bested Alejandro Aranda in Sunday night’s finale, an all-star affair that featured more than a few country-music cameos. Chief among them was Jon Pardi, who participated in a …

Taylor Swift, who launched her superstar career in Tennessee, has made a six-figure donation to an LGBTQ advocacy group in the state that is fighting a series of bills targeting LGBTQ individuals. Among them: one that would allow adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples. Swift accompanied her $113,000 donation …

Jimbo Mathus says he never planned to make money playing music. That’s a good thing, because by the time the first lineup of his band Squirrel Nut Zippers folded, it was all gone. The Zippers’ unlikely 1996 hit, “Hell,” a wildly horn-driven, Dixieland jazz romp, earned them a Platinum record …

Two and a half years after their debut LP On the Rocks introduced the world to Midland‘s infinitely fun, boot-stompin’ Eighties-country-in-an-Instagram-filter sound, their new single finds the trio not planning to leave the honky-tonk anytime soon. “Mr. Lonely” is a mischievous, Texas dance hall-inspired tune in the spirit of Eddie …

When teenaged powerhouse Tanya Tucker appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in September 1974, the coverline proclaimed, “Hi, I’m Tanya Tucker. I’m 15. You’re Gonna Hear From Me.” While rock fans may not have been as familiar with her at the time, country listeners had been hearing from the …