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Last October, Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore hit the road together for a 12-city acoustic tour. What began as a one-off opportunity to share songs and swap harmonies has since turned into a full-fledged duo, with two songwriters now gearing up for the June release of their first collaborative …

Anderson East emerges from side stage just in time to grab the microphone and give it a windmill twirl before singing the opening lines of “Sorry You’re Sick,” the energetic, Ted Hawkins-penned clap-along from his new album, Encore. With his hard-charging band laying down the driving beat and joyous horns …

Singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams announced Sunday that she will explore her life and music in an upcoming memoir. The still-untitled autobiography, due out in 2020 via publishers Henry Holt and Company, will chart the singer’s life and career from her Louisiana childhood to her Grammy-winning success of 1998’s Car …

Mike Harmeier loves being on the road. In 2017, he and his band, Mike & the Moonpies, played over 180 shows. This year, they plan on pushing that number beyond 200. But it’s only when this road warrior stops – usually at his mother- and father-in-law’s 27-acre ranch outside Austin, …

Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson – two of country music’s most vital artists – performed onstage for the first-ever time on Saturday night. Stapleton was the scheduled musical act on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Will Ferrell, but a few hours prior to the broadcast he tweeted that he’d be …

Carly Pearce knows how to keep her head about her. That’s how she went from cleaning AirBNB properties in Nashville to scoring a Number One record in 2017. But the steamy new music video for her song “Hide the Wine” is all about resisting temptation. Directed by Shaun Silva, the …

“You know that feeling of clicking to the top of a roller coaster?” Caitlyn Smith says as she sits in her dressing room a few hours before her live-television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Yeah, we’ll it’s kind of been that feeling all day. Like ‘Here we …

Throughout its five previous seasons, Nashville could be counted on to weave compelling, dramatic stories with the continuing thread of top-flight musical numbers. Those threads now appear to be wearing mighty thin as the series marches (well, limps) toward its last-ever episodes. How boring did things get this week? During …

Last month, Maggie Rose released a smoldering new song called “Pull You Through,” and already she’s given it a live reworking with an in-studio performance for YouTube’s Nashville Sessions that you can watch above. Released as a “digital 45” backed with “Just Getting By,” “Pull You Through” is a soulful …

Mary Davis Travis, the wife of singer Randy Travis, has started a petition to block the imminent public release of potentially embarrassing dashboard camera footage from the country legend’s 2012 DUI arrest in Tioga, Texas. The petition, which is now posted at Change.org, was issued by Travis’ wife along with …