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As CMA Fest descends upon downtown Nashville, Blake Shelton’s new entertainment venue Ole Red – launching in partnership with Ryman Hospitality – will open its doors for business. In addition to the late-night “Blake Shelton and Friends” concert taking place June 6th, Ole Red will also host digital-music giant Spotify …

Brent Cobb is answering a mundane question about being nominated for a Grammy when, all of a sudden, he finds a way to steer the question back to his favorite topic: South Georgia. “When I think about the Grammys, I think about what me and my old group of friends …

On Monday night’s Top 10 competition on The Voice, Blake Shelton’s team members Pryor Baird and Spensha Baker looked to the Nashville songbook for their strongest performances to date. With a red Telecaster slung over his shoulder, Orcutt, California, native Baird took on Montgomery Gentry’s “My Town.” The lead single …

Willie Nelson‘s third annual Outlaw Music FestivalTour was already looking like a summertime roots music juggernaut, but the 2018 edition adds more firepower with a new round of dates that includes rock & roll legends Neil Young and Van Morrison. Young will be keeping things in the family for a …

Aside from their annual Homegrown Concert in Charleston, South Carolina, Nineties radio mainstays Hootie and the Blowfish haven’t played many shows together in the last few years. On Wednesday, frontman Darius Rucker announced he was reuniting the group for one date this summer, supporting Jason Aldean‘s High Noon Neon Tour …

It’s been more than five years since Jamey Johnson released his last full-length album, but that hasn’t stopped the outspoken outlaw from hitting the road on an annual basis. He kicks off another year’s worth of cross-country touring next week, with a schedule of theater dates, amphitheater gigs and festival …

After cutting a concert short in San Diego early last month and canceling the remainder of his January dates, Willie Nelson has scrapped all scheduled concerts for the month of February. A release from Nelson’s publicist says the Country Music Hall of Fame singer-songwriter is suffering from a bout of …

Tyler Childers has been tapped to headline the third annual Stagecoach Spotlight Tour, a 10-date run of shows being held in conjunction with April’s Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio, California. Lillie Mae will join him on all dates, with Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real appearing on three. …

For Lanco, the five-piece country outfit who took a jangling small-town epic called “Greatest Love Story” to Number One late in 2017, a single word in the song’s first verse solidified their go-your-own-way spirit and laid out a path for their buzzworthy debut album Hallelujah Nights. That word? It was …

Fifty years ago Johnny Cash strode into Folsom State Prison in Represa, California, behind a truckload of recording equipment and emerged with an eternal album. The union of Cash and his hungry, jailhouse audience communicated a startling authenticity, a singular moment that remains elusive to musicians who would try to …