The boozy new sing-along from the King of Country, the sad-eyed reinvention of an East Nashville staple and a lesson in love from a maturing country duo make up the 10 must-hear songs of the week. Szlachetka, “Until That Echo” Built around a chromatic guitar riff that spirals downward into …
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Dan + Shay enjoyed a victory lap on Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning America, performing their romantic hit “Speechless” while the song sits at Number One on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart for a second week. On the GMA stage, “Speechless” is a showcase for Shay Mooney’s athletic vocals, diving …
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Two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year winner Luke Bryan, who’s up for the same honor this evening, opened the 52nd annual awards show with a celebration of all things country, delivering a muscular performance of the title track from his album What Makes You Country while also demonstrating that one …
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It’s been seven years since Damien Echols walked out of an Arkansas prison after spending 18 years — half of his life at the time — on death row for a crime he did not commit. Now, at 43, the West Memphis Three figure (one of a trio of teenagers …
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2018 has been a busy year for Southern rock band Blackberry Smoke, with the release of their sixth LP Find a Light and the Southern Ground Sessions EP as well as a world tour that currently has them in the United Kingdom. Now the group’s Find a Light Tour has …
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A drifter, a sheriff, a preacher and a single mom walk into a bar — it sounds like the start of a poorly conceived joke, but it’s actually the plot of the somber and spiritual new video for Tim McGraw‘s “Neon Church.” Out today, the Shane Drake-directed clip offers a …
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Pistol Annies‘ upcoming third album, Interstate Gospel, finds the trio casting their musical net across more expansive waters, mixing their sweet, traditional country and bluegrass harmony with flashes of Sixties girl groups, classic rock and even a bit of soulful funk. All of those latter elements feature in “Sugar Daddy,” …
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Lake Street Dive is gearing up to close its year with a string of sold-out shows, including one in November at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and now the group’s tour schedule is set to carry over into 2019 with a selection of newly announced dates with supporting performer …
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Near the end of her living-room-intimate headlining show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday night, Cam delivered a defiant soliloquy on country music in 2018, relaying how some question if the increasingly homogenized genre has lost its edge. “I don’t think country music got soft. I don’t think country music …
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As their clever name, a tribute to two all-time greats, suggests, Earls of Leicester pay homage with a powerful bluegrass sound dedicated solely to the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and delivered by six of the genre’s modern masters. The supergroup of pickers — Jerry Douglas, Shawn Camp, …
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