The Avett Brothers return with “Sun, Flood, or Drought,” an optimistic new track composed for the documentary film The Biggest Little Farm, which will be released in select theaters on May 10th. With the delicately melodic folk tune, the Americana mainstays follow the persevering theme of the film, about a …
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Veteran Texas performer Jack Ingram turns in a searing, six-minute cover of Guy Clark‘s famed “Desperados Waiting for a Train” in a new video, filmed during tracking at Arlyn Studios in Austin, Texas. The song appears on Ingram’s 10th studio album Riding High…Again, which was released Friday. Ingram had the …
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The long-overdue return of Love and Theft, a twangy slice of Possum country from Whiskey Wolves of the West and Sheryl Crow‘s stunning duet with Johnny Cash make up the tracks you must hear this week. Whiskey Wolves of the West, “Just One of Those Things” A country weeper filled …
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Wade Bowen puts his fans front and center in the rowdy new music video for the stomping “Fell in Love on Whiskey.” And for good reason, too: After a forced hiatus last summer to recover from vocal surgery, the Texas country vet is grateful simply to be back on the …
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Thomas Rhett looks back fondly on the vehicle that transported him into adulthood in “That Old Truck,” the latest release from his upcoming album Center Point Road. The follow-up to Rhett’s 2017 release Life Changes, Center Point Road will be available May 31st. A gentle, mostly acoustic number that veers …
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Chris Shiflett passes along some fatherly wisdom on his spiraling new rocker “Welcome to Your First Heartache,” off his newly announced solo LP Hard Lessons, which will be released June 14th. Aptly enough given the album’s title, “Welcome to Your First Heartache” is directed toward a son experiencing his first …
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Luke Dick clicks a file on his computer and swivels around his chair in the converted garage-studio behind his East Nashville home. Andy Warhol’s voice, dispassionately commenting that he’s just eaten a burger, leaps out of the speakers and begins to warp as if a tape machine is being melted. …
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Spend a day with Brandi Carlile at her property outside of Seattle, and it takes approximately 60 seconds to be thrust into the middle of her extended family — which, on the day Rolling Stone visited in early January, included her bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth; Laura and Lydia Rogers …
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In the just-released “No U in Oklahoma,” Reba McEntire spells out the twists and turns of a troubled relationship set to an irresistible Western swing beat, replete with twin fiddles, steel guitar and piano accompaniment straight out of a Sooner State dance hall. “You put the ‘T’ for tears in …
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One of the key members of Nashville’s “A-Team” of studio session musicians, guitarist Harold Bradley died peacefully in his sleep early Thursday morning, according to a Facebook post from his daughters. They wrote, “”Many of you know him as a successful musician and no doubt many stories will be told …
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