Music Country

The lineup yesterday morning on CMT could not have looked more different than what was queued up at most country radio stations across America: In the network’s morning bloc were videos from Pistol Annies, Tanya Tucker, Maren Morris, and the eternally banned-from-airwaves Dixie Chicks. It was Day Two of CMT’s …

In 1978, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings recorded Ed Bruce’s “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” for their duets album Waylon & Willie. Forty-plus years later, the outlaw-country pioneers’ sons unite for their own version. Lukas Nelson and Shooter Jennings cut “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies …

Brian Fallon smokes his last cigarette in the new song “21 Days.” The latest track released off his upcoming third solo album, Local Honey, it chronicles the New Jersey songwriter’s attempt to kick nicotine and casts the drug as a long-lost friend or lover. “I miss you most in the …

North Carolina-born songwriter and Renaissance man Jim Lauderdale will pay tribute to the Tar Heel State with the March 6th release of his latest bluegrass album, When Carolina Comes Home Again. The follow-up to 2019’s From Another World, the LP features Lauderdale collaborating with other North Carolinians, including Steep Canyon …

Covers albums are often a letdown, mostly unnecessary projects that leave you wondering why the artist devoted valuable time to singing someone else’s songs instead of working on their own. Ronnie Dunn‘s Re-Dunn — what a title! — is among the rare exceptions. Out January 10th, the 24-track collection finds …

Kenny Chesney has nearly doubled his 2020 touring schedule with the announcement of several amphitheater performances on the Chillaxification Tour. These shows will take place between the singer’s larger stadium gigs next spring and summer. Chesney’s 22 stadium dates on the Chillaxification Tour get underway April 18th, while the first …

Foy Vance has kept a busy schedule this year. From Muscle Shoals, a collection of Americana songs recorded in the titular capital of Alabama’s soul-music scene, arrived in June, followed in September by To Memphis. Although both albums were tracked in the American South, the songwriter remains a busy road …

A&E’s two-night Biography event Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On dives headlong into the complicated psyche of the best-selling solo artist in U.S. history. With commentary from musical friends James Taylor, Billy Joel, and Keith Urban, and in-depth interviews with Brooks, his three daughters, ex-wife Sandy Mahl, and wife Trisha …

UPDATE (11/22): Hunt has issued a statement and apology via Twitter addressing the events that led to his DUI arrest. Explaining that he had been out at a friend’s show, he says driving in his inebriated condition was a “poor and selfish decision and I apologize to everyone who was …

The Lantern Tour II will get underway in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening with performers including Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, and Steve Earle. A winter 2020 concert in Nashville has been added to the itinerary, with Sheryl Crow and Amy Ray also joining the bill. The Lantern Tour II will visit …