Music Country

Singer-songwriter Hailey Whitters started off 2019 as a Nashville songwriter with a handful of modest successes, but at the top of 2020, the “Ten Year Town” singer is now a buzz-worthy performer with a highly anticipated album on the way. Titled The Dream, Whitters’ self-financed new album will be released …

Miranda Lambert‘s mud-soaked romp in “It All Comes Out in the Wash,” Tyler Childers’ psychedelic reverie in “All Your’n,” and Lil Nas X‘s delightful Wild West-goes-to-Cali saga for “Old Town Road” are among the clips that stood out in a year full of great visuals. Here are the 10 best …

Early in 2020, country-music legend Hank Williams will be the subject of a six-CD collection which gathers a series of 144 performances from radio shows he hosted nearly 70 years ago. Hank Williams: Pictures From Life’s Other Side — The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings represents …

Acoustic quartet Che Apalache take a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border and sing in front of a wall separating the two countries in a newly released 16-minute video titled “Borderlands.” The group just scored a Grammy nomination for its 2019 album, Rearrange My Heart, which was produced by Béla Fleck …

Just three years ago an unknown Luke Combs bought a limited edition Eric Church Gibson Hummingbird guitar from a pop-up shop in Nashville. He promised the salesman, who sold merch on the road for Church, that he’d be seeing him again. “I said, ‘Dude, I’ll be playing shows with you …

By the time Dolly Parton had entered her teens, the young girl from the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee had accomplished something that most adults who love to sing country music could only dare dream: she had performed on the Grand Ole Opry. Parton, who this week celebrates her 50th …

Martina McBride doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone at this point, but the “Independence Day” singer recently updated her résumé with a new role: podcast host. Vocal Point, launched in conjunction with Luminary Media and Believe Entertainment Group, aired its first episode September 27th featuring guest Garth Brooks, with …

G. Love holds the Special Sauce with the release of The Juice via Philadelphonic/Thirty Tigers, a solo album with some all-star guests due January 17th. Teaming up with blues singer-guitarist Keb’ Mo’, the first single from the album, “Go Crazy,” is a call for action aimed at provoking positive change …

Hopping off the tailgate of his Sprinter touring van, Billy Strings readies himself for a rollicking set at the inaugural Railbird festival in Lexington, Kentucky. The six-string virtuoso grabs his guitar and tunes up, running through a few signature licks. Strings sits back down and observes the other bands and …

Sturgill Simpson will play a handful of smaller venues on the heels of releasing his new album Sound & Fury this Friday, September 27th. The Kentucky-born singer-songwriter will kick off the trek September 29th at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. Spanning six shows in total, the brief tour will …