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The title of Waylon Payne’s upcoming second album is a mouthful. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher, & Me derives its name from a bleak period in Payne’s life when he was in the grips of a debilitating drug addiction and grieving the death of …

Hailey Whitters sings about a chance encounter and living a full life in “Janice at the Hotel Bar,” a standout from the Nashville singer-songwriter’s 2020 album The Dream. The story of their enlightening interaction comes to life in a new video released on Wednesday. Directed by Erica Silverman in partnership …

“Be safe, be respectful, wear your mask, lead with love,” Dolly Parton instructs in her new video for the song “When Life Is Good Again.” The Country Music Hall of Famer has done her part and then some to bring her fans some solace during the COVID-19 pandemic: releasing six …

Old Crow Medicine Show‘s Ketch Secor goes it alone in the new song “Quarantined” — but he sure would like to have some company. A lighthearted ode to be being separated from the one you love, the track finds the man-out-of-time musician suffering through two full weeks without as much …

Three Kentucky music festivals slated for September have been canceled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty about the return of large gatherings. The Hometown Rising country music festival, the hard-rock Louder Than Life fest, and the rock, roots music, and whiskey weekend Bourbon & Beyond have all been …

Hayes Carll has recorded a new, stripped-down version of his song “Times Like These,” which first appeared on his 2019 album What It Is. The original version was brisk and aggressive, a swaggering rocker in the Chuck Berry mold, but also carried a seething political message. “I wrote the song …

One of the high points of Jesse Malin‘s latest album Sunset Kids is his duet with Lucinda Williams, “Dead On.” Williams produced the album with her husband-manager Tom Overby and lends her harmonies and songwriting to a number of tracks, but it’s “Dead On” that stands as the LP’s proper …

Jesse Malin played his last live show before entering this quarantined life on March 13th in London. “The crowd was so good, I said to the band, ‘We’re going to leave some blood on this stage because we may not be back for a while,’” he says, calling from his …

Tucker Beathard‘s new single “You Would Think” is an emotionally-heavy ballad about the desire to be there for someone in times of need — if only they’d let you. Beathard personifies that conflict in a music video that follows a daughter as she tries to care for her alcoholic mother. …

Just ahead of the forthcoming Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust, Loretta Lynn’s memoir of her friendship with fellow country-music icon Patsy Cline, Lynn releases a new version of one of Cline’s most indelible hit songs, “I Fall to Pieces.” Backed by the familiar 4:4 shuffle beat and stinging steel …