Eric Church, Darius Rucker, and Ashley McBryde appear in an Ad Council public service announcement encouraging music fans to learn more about the Covid-19 vaccine and to get vaccinated so that live music can resume in earnest. “All these places that we stand in — the Ryman, the Opry House …
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Brothers Osborne have confirmed a lengthy U.S. tour set to launch in mid-summer. The We’re Not for Everyone Tour, named for a track on their arena-ready third studio album Skeletons, will take the sibling duo to nearly 50 locations beginning in July. The trek gets underway July 29th in Philadelphia, …
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Tim McGraw will release two deluxe versions of his 2020 album Here on Earth, expanded with new songs and music videos. Here on Earth Ultimate Edition and Ultimate Video Edition will be available April 16th and both include the previously unreleased song “God Moves the Pen.” The Ultimate Edition of …
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Maren Morris, Eric Church, and Mickey Guyton are among the artists scheduled to perform at the 2021 Academy of Country Music Awards. The show will take place in Nashville on Sunday, April 18th, and, as with the 2020 edition of the show, incorporate the stages of Ryman Auditorium, Bluebird Cafe, …
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Eleven years after releasing the indie-rock touchstone Epic,Sharon Van Etten has enlisted an impressive group of artists from Fiona Apple to Courtney Barnett — to cover the entirety of her debut album. The latest preview of Epic Ten, the deluxe version of Van Etten’s debut due next month, comes from …
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Garth Brooks was forced to abruptly cancel his 2021 Stadium Tour in August as the Delta variant of Covid-19 began making new case numbers surge. On Tuesday, he announced plans to resume the trek in 2022 with his first stadium show in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Brooks will play the Donald W. …
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Jason Cope, the guitar player for the Southern rock band the Steel Woods and a collaborator with artists like Jamey Johnson and Brent Cobb, has died. He was 42. The group’s publicist confirmed Cope’s death to Rolling Stone. Cope was an in-demand session guitarist, playing on albums by Lindi Ortega …
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So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. After eight years between albums and a sojourn running her own coffee shop — the …
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After his last album Concrete & Mud was released in 2018, Sam Morrow found that he was often getting tagged with the “outlaw country” label. That album’s brawny mix of country-funk and retro boogie nodded to the influence of Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed, undoubtedly, but the Houston native wasn’t …
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In mid-August, Devin Dawson released “I Got a Truck” as the first offering from his upcoming second album, the follow-up to his major label debut Dark Horse. An appropriately driving song about a young person with a dream, the video centers on a truck as the vehicle to get them …
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