Ryan Bingham is getting back in the saddle this winter as he prepares to release American Love Song, his first LP of new material in four years. The performer gets back to his gritty roadhouse roots on his latest song, “Jingle and Go.” The new track, which will lead off …
Read More »Flashback: Roy Orbison Sings 'Pretty Paper' on Johnny Cash Holiday Special
When Johnny Cash hosted his own variety show for two seasons on ABC in the early Seventies, each episode incorporated the feel of inviting viewers into the Cash home, with his new bride, June Carter Cash, and her mother and sisters, who performed as the Carter Family, singing along with …
Read More »'The Voice': See Chevel Shepherd's Cover of Tanya Tucker's 'It's a Little Too Late'
Teenaged country singer Chevel Shepherd helped close down the performance portion of The Voice’s 15th season Monday night, channeling Tanya Tucker for the two-stepping fun of “It’s a Little Too Late.” Playing the part of a honky-tonk princess and backed by a twangy group of instruments, Shepherd poured theatrical sass …
Read More »What Country Music Can Learn From This Year's Grammy Nominees
It’s an understatement to say that the last year was a bad one for the Grammy Awards when it came to gender inclusivity. Women have never exactly been afforded equal representation at the annual event, but when a study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that only nine percent …
Read More »Folk Duo Carolina Story Talk Grand Ole Opry, Creative Writing on Chris Shiflett Podcast
“The power of two people sitting down and singing together just knocks you out, doesn’t it?” That’s Chris Shiflett‘s response to Carolina Story’s live performance of “We Were Young Once Too,” which fills the final moments of the duo’s appearance on Walking the Floor. As longtime partners onstage and off, …
Read More »Rhett Miller on Suicide Prevention, Sobriety and Living Forever Through Song
Rock stars aren’t supposed to be as chipper as Rhett Miller. The Old 97’s frontman is driving through the Hudson Valley one November afternoon on his way to a solo gig in New Jersey, and there’s no sign of a let-up on the road ahead, with plans for two new …
Read More »How Kane Brown Balances Old School Country With Pop Beats on 'Experiment'
In December 2016, when Kane Brown released his self-titled first album, it debuted at Number One on the Billboard country chart. But to hear him tell it, its true watershed moment came almost a full year later. In October 2017, after the album was re-released as a deluxe edition, Brown …
Read More »Eric Church's Producer Shares His Eccentric, Chain-Smoking Creative Process
For more than five years now, Jay Joyce has lived here on the basement level of a church on a residential street in East Nashville that — in the interim between it being a functioning Southern Baptist church and the acclaimed record producer transforming it into his dream studio — …
Read More »See Ashley McBryde's Riveting 'Girl Goin' Nowhere' on 'Jools Holland'
While in London this week for a string of United Kingdom dates, Ashley McBryde paid her first visit to British television for a spellbinding performance of her song “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” on Later…with Jools Holland. The title track to her debut album that came out in March, “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” …
Read More »Hear Jason Isbell's Stunning 'Cover Me Up' From New Live Album
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit deliver a spine-tingling acoustic rendition of “Cover Me Up” on their new Live From the Ryman album, set for release on October 19th. Romantic and unflinching in its self-examination, the autobiographical song first appeared as the leadoff track on 2013’s Southeastern – the solo …
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