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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 …

This fall, Kinky Friedman will be releasing Resurrection, a new studio album of original songs produced by Larry Campbell. After all but retiring from songwriting for three-plus decades, Friedman’s latest album follows in the wake of last year’s Circus of Life, a meditative collection that rejuvenated the Texas singer-songwriter’s drive …

Little Big Town will welcome in the new year with Nightfall, the multi-award-winning quartet’s ninth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s The Breaker. In advance of the forthcoming LP, the group has unveiled “Over Drinking,” a delightfully woozy and defiant honky-tonk number that aims to redirect the narrator’s alcohol …

While he may not have had the name recognition of some of the artists with whom he played, guitarist Neal Casal was revered across all music genres. He recorded with country stars Willie Nelson and Shooter Jennings, played slippery leads as a member of Ryan Adams’ Cardinals, advanced the blues-jam …

Allison Moorer will release her first new solo album since 2015’s Down to Believin’ this fall. Titled Blood, the LP, out October 25th, will be followed four days later by the release of Moorer’s memoir of the same name, published by Da Capo Press. Moorer’s most recent recording project was …

Hunter Hayes builds his new song “Wild Blue” around a percussive groove, singing over subtle piano about how the 27-year-old songwriter is undergoing a personal sea change. “Funny how you don’t know you can fly until you finally catch the wind,” he sings. “You think you know the part you …

Kacey Musgraves is pissed off. The Grammy-winning country singer and native Texan offered an exasperated plea to end gun violence during her performance at Lollapalooza on Sunday, a day after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, left 29 people dead. “I don’t know what the answer is but …

Singer-songwriter and activist Chely Wright made her first appearance at the Concert for Love and Acceptance on Thursday night, performing a pair of her hits as the event celebrated its fifth year. One of those was “Shut Up and Drive,” a 1997 hit for Wright that got a huge cheer …