Jake Owen has announced plans for his new album, which he’s bestowed with the cheerful name Greetings From. . .Jake. The new LP, which features some postcard-inspired cover art, will be released via Big Loud Records on March 29th. Greetings marks Owen’s first full-length album in nearly three years and …
Read More »Reba McEntire on Lack of Female ACM Nominees: 'I Was Very Disappointed'
Reba McEntire sat down with CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert Wednesday night in advance of the April 5th release of her new album, Stronger Than the Truth, and her return as host of the upcoming ACM Awards two days later. While McEntire touched on everything from her memories of …
Read More »See Lauren Jenkins' Earnest 'Running Out of Road' on 'Today'
Lauren Jenkins took the Today show stage on Thursday for a performance of her single “Running out of Road,” a downcast breakup tune about being haunted by the memory of an ex. Jenkins’ Big Machine Records debut No Saint will be released March 15th. During Jenkins’ Today appearance she was …
Read More »Mason Ramsey Announces Headlining 2019 Tour
Little more than a month after opening for Florida Georgia Line and Chris Lane this past December, Mason Ramsey has announced his first-ever headlining U.S. tour this Spring, kicking off March 22nd in Tuscaloosa. Ramsey’s 11-date trek, dubbed the How’s Your Girl & How’s Your Family Tour,will take the preteen …
Read More »Inside Robert Earl Keen, Randy Rogers' Fictional Stryker Brothers Duo
The idea started with a brush fire, but before long it took on a life of its own. Two lives, in fact: Coal and Flynt Stryker, a pair of mysterious siblings who died in a prison fire, leaving behind a batch of long-lost country recordings. Except that they didn’t. Cole …
Read More »Reggie Young, Studio Guitarist for Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Dead at 82
Reggie Young, whose guitar playing graced hundreds of rock, pop and country records by everyone from Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley to George Strait and Merle Haggard, died Thursday at his home in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. He was 82. As lead guitarist for the Memphis Boys, the …
Read More »Todd Snider Returns to Folksinger Roots on New Song 'Just Like Overnight'
Todd Snider has released “Just Like Overnight,” the first track available off Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3, the singer-songwriter’s upcoming album. Recorded at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Johnny Cash’s former cabin-studio now owned by his son John Carter Cash, Snider’s next project is the folk songwriter’s first …
Read More »Chris Stapleton, Cardi B Set for 2019 RodeoHouston Lineup
Nothing sums up the diversity of the city of Houston quite like the musical lineup for this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. While traditionally a mainly country music event, 2019 RodeoHouston features artists from pop, Latin pop, hip-hop and Tejano, as well as country. The Grammy-nominated Kacey Musgraves kicks …
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