Brent Cobb moved to Nashville in 2008, landing a publishing deal that same year. Although he’d already released an album — the out-of-print No Place Left to Leave, released a full decade before his 2016 breakthrough, Shine on Rainy Day — Cobb found himself thrust into a business that required …
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The Americana Honors & Awards ceremony is the flagship event of every AmericanaFest, which officially got under way on Tuesday in Nashville. First held in 2002, the ceremony honors both emerging talent as well as genre icons, and has, over the last 18 years, championed the careers of beloved artists …
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Kelsea Ballerini was quick to offer her appreciation for one of the past week’s biggest albums, offering a cover of Troye Sivan‘s “Seventeen” from the pop singer’s newly released Bloom. Ballerini posted video of her singing the song to Instagram on Monday, her unadorned acoustic rendition underscoring the song’s wistful …
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At a press conference on Tuesday morning, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame rolled out its list of inductees for 2018. This year’s class will include Ronnie Dunn, K.T. Oslin, Byron Hill, Wayne Kirkpatrick, and Joe Melson, plus a first-time honor that will be presented to Reba McEntire. Established in …
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Will Hoge’s eviscerating “Gilded Walls,” Colter Wall’s folksy “Plain to See a Plainsman” and Rachel Wammack’s marvelous “Damage” are among the 10 country and Americana tracks you must hear right now. Jenny Tolman, “Rock & Roll to My Country Soul” A country-blooded crooner who grew up within Nashville’s city limits, …
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John Prine’s latest video is the crudely and charmingly animated clip for “Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone),” from the singer-songwriter’s The Tree of Forgiveness LP, released in April. A blend of youthful whimsy and certain mortality, Prine charts the various pursuits of misbegotten childhood, adulthood and …
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“There is a certain immortality in the change that another person effects on another person.” This is how singer-songwriter and mandolin player Chris Thile describes the meaning behind new song “Like It’s Going Out of Style,” the coda to the Punch Brothers’ latest album, All Ashore. It’s something he’s thought …
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Cole Swindell will release his new album All of It on August 17th, a record that, judging by the tracks he’s unveiled so far, indicates a more mature direction for the Georgia songwriter. “Love You Too Late” is the latest taste of the album, a road song for the one …
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Fans of the Devil Makes Three have plenty to be happy about these days, with news coming out last week that the Americana trio will be releasing their first album of new material in five years later this summer. Things have gotten even better now with the addition of a …
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Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear pull back the curtain on their creative spaces, both public and personal, in the music video for their new song “Everybody’s Got Problems,” part of the duo’s new EP The Radio Winners. Ward and his mother, Ruth, are captured in several intimate and endearing …
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