Brent Cobb has been busy in 2017 serving as an opener on some of the year’s biggest country tours, including Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s Soul2Soul Tour and Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show Tour. Come 2018, the Georgia singer will appear in the headlining role with his Ain’t a Road …
Read More »Hear Chris Stapleton's Haunting New Song 'Scarecrow in the Garden'
With the release of From A Room: Volume 2 now less than a month away, Chris Stapleton has another new song previewing his second LP of 2017, “Scarecrow in the Garden.” Written by Stapleton, Brice Long, and Matt Fleener, “Scarecrow in the Garden” is a spare, ominous ballad about a …
Read More »See Miranda Lambert's Show-Stopping 'Tin Man' on 'Austin City Limits'
“Tin Man” may not be Miranda Lambert‘s biggest hit, but in the year since its release on her double-LP opus The Weight of These Wings it’s quickly become her show-stopper. The two-time Grammy winner once again turns in a stirring performance of the solo acoustic ballad in the latest episode …
Read More »See Kenny Rogers Say Goodbye at All-Star Farewell Concert
Like his 1981 song promised, Kenny Rogers went out in a blaze of glory Wednesday night in Nashville. The Country Music Hall of Fame member was honored at All in for the Gambler: Kenny Rogers’ Farewell Concert Celebration, an all-star concert featuring performances of the smooth country-pop vocalist’s most famous …
Read More »Watch Eric Church's Bittersweet New Video for 'Round Here Buzz'
Eric Church continues to tell the story of Mr. Misunderstood through the eyes of Mickey Smay, the bespectacled teenager from the cover of the Chief’s 2015 LP, in the new video for “Round Here Buzz.” Tracing a love story that begins at a football game and is sealed with a …
Read More »Margo Price Talks Politics, Willie Nelson Collaboration on Confident New LP
When Margo Price returned to Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis late last year to begin tracking the follow-up to Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, uncertainty and change were hanging in the air. Donald Trump had just been elected president, and his popular MAGA refrain sounded to many like regressive action, a rolling …
Read More »Lady Antebellum to Headline Musicians on Call Anniversary Concert
Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum will headline a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of Musicians on Call. Set for October 26th at Nashville’s City Winery, the show will be hosted by country-radio personality Bobby Bones and feature yet to be announced special guests. The nonprofit bills itself as “the most …
Read More »Jerrod Niemann Talks Indie Rock Influence on New Album 'This Ride'
Jerrod Niemann has a long history of reinvention. After two traditional-leaning independent albums early in his career, he pulled a 180 and scored big with 2010’s Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury, a quirky outlier for its time that included the R&B-influenced hits “Lover, Lover” and “What Do You Want.” …
Read More »Watch Harry Styles' Evocative Take on Little Big Town's 'Girl Crush'
Harry Styles breezed into Nashville for a date on his recently launched solo tour Monday night, telling the Ryman Auditorium crowd – populated mostly by girls and young women in full singing (and screaming) voice, “I have to say, when we booked this tour, this was kind of the reason. …
Read More »Hear Lee Brice's Seductive New Song 'Rumor'
News tends to spread quickly in small towns, a fact of life that Lee Brice – a native of Sumter, South Carolina – has witnessed firsthand. In Brice’s new song “Rumor,” that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A sultry, R&B-tinged number that suits Brice’s burly growl, “Rumor” recalls Bonnie Raitt’s …
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