Brent Cobb and Nikki Lane will share bills through the later part of summer 2021 when they team up for the co-headlining Soapbox Derby Tour. The trek gets underway August 20th in Chicago. Spanning 18 dates in less than three weeks, the Soapbox Derby Tour will stick mostly to the …
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B.J. Thomas, the vocalist who mixed the stylish sophistication of a pop crooner and the down-home soul of a country singer on songs like the 1969 smash “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” died Saturday in his Arlington, Texas home at the age of 78. A rep for Thomas confirmed …
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When Ashley Monroe wakes in the morning, she often heads straight to her closet. “I hear melodies in here,” says the singer-songwriter, calling from inside the cramped space during a recent interview. In the quiet early morning hours of 2018 and 2019, Monroe heard much more than melodies in her …
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Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson have joined the growing cast of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, Osage News reports. No release date has been announced for the Apple Original Film, an adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction book about a string of murders in Oklahoma’s Osage Nation. Set …
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Next month, country singer Justin Moore will be releasingStraight Outta the Country, the singer’s first collection of new music since his 2019 album Late Nights and Longnecks. The record was produced by Moore’s longtime collaborator Jeremy Stover. The singer announced the album on his podcast earlier today. “We had three …
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Last October, Texas lost two of its biggest musical legends: Jerry Jeff Walker and Billy Joe Shaver. Walker wrote some of country music’s funniest, most heartbreaking songs, including 1968’s “Mr. Bojangles.” Shaver pioneered outlaw country, writing classics like “Georgia on a Fast Train” and “Ride Me Down Easy,” recorded by …
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Eric Church announced his plans for the three-album release Heart & Soul last week. On Friday, he debuted the lead-off track from Heart, a windows-down love song titled “Heart on Fire.” Written solo by Church, “Heart on Fire” is more FM classic rock than Nashville country, with hints of Lonesome …
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“More Than My Hometown” and “7 Summers” may have been the radio hits so far off Morgan Wallen‘s Dangerous: The Double Album, but it’s the LP’s opening track “Sand in My Boots” that is breaking out as a viral hit. On Friday, Wallen made the nostalgic tale of a fleeting …
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When guitarist Tony Rice died on Christmas Day in his North Carolina home, bluegrass music bade farewell to a second-generation star who expressed his music in modern terms and embraced bluegrass’s potential to both blend with and influence other genres. “The music business has lost a true innovator,” says Jimmy …
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Dolly Parton released her first album of holiday music in 30 years back in October with A Holly Dolly Christmas. Stacked with special guests, the record finds Dolly singing originals and chestnuts with names like Miley Cyrus, Jimmy Fallon, and Michael Bublé. She also reunited with old friend Willie Nelson …
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