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Singer-songwriter Radney Foster has shared a new Spanish-language version of his song “Godspeed (Sweet Dreams),” recasting the tune as “Godpeed (Dulces Sueños).” The song is his response to immigrant children being separated from their families along the U.S.-Mexico border by the Department of Justice’s policy under President Trump. Foster, a …

Roger Miller was part Hank Williams, part Will Rogers, yet a wholly original talent with a densely populated mind from which sprang some of the most noteworthy and enduring songs of the 1960s. Amid the yeah-yeah-yeahs of the British Invasion and the protests that “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” Miller …

Kenny Chesney salutes fans who embody the all-for-one vibe of his latest single in a new music video, placing them at the heart of a tailgate-centric clip for “Get Along.” Directed by Shaun Silva and filmed largely amid the citizens of Chesney’s No Shoes Nation, the video captures a sunny …

If life experience equates to wisdom, then Mike Farris probably has more fatherly advice to impart than most. The Grammy winner does just that on “Golden Wings,” the first single from his upcoming LP Silver and Stone. As the lead singer of Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies during the Nineties, Farris fell …

Reaching far beyond their Americana roots, Sons of Bill brew up a lush, literate sound with this year’s Oh God Ma’am, a wide-ranging album that mixes honesty, hooks and headiness in equal measure. With electric guitars that chime and reverb-drenched harmonies that swoon, Oh God Ma’am nods to the atmospheric …

Jason Aldean has announced the new single from his latest album Rearview Town. “Drowns the Whiskey” follows the multi-week Number One “You Make It Easy” and features guest vocals from Miranda Lambert. The pair is captured in the recording studio in a new lyric video for the song that premiered …

The first song Tony Joe White ever finished was “Polk Salad Annie,” the popular late-Sixties tribute to Southern women and edible weeds. Half a century later, he’s grown into a bluesy, backwoods folk hero, celebrated for his swampy guitar playing, slow-motion delivery and signature songwriting. He’s still an active musician, …

Maddie & Tae stage a seductive comeback with the depiction of radioactive chemistry in their new single “Friends Don’t,” the duo’s first release since 2016. Set to hit radio stations on May 14th, the confessional power ballad was written by the duo with hit makers Justin Ebach and Jon Nite …

Finding a musician and songwriter more influential in the collective genres of pop, folk, country and Americana music – and yet also more underappreciated – than the late Gene Clark would be a formidable task. Clark’s legacy as a singer, songwriter, founding member of the Byrds, and collaborator in a …

After the one-two traditional-country punch of 2013’s Like a Rose and 2015’s Grammy-nominated The Blade, both co-produced by Vince Gill and Justin Niebank, Ashley Monroe began working with über-producer Dave Cobb, whose Grammy-winning works for Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton, among others, have redefined country and Americana music in recent …