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Leave it to Margo Price to always use her platform for a greater purpose. Last night, she appeared on Conan and sang about gender wage inequality with a performance of “Pay Gap,” from her sophomore LP All American Made. Flanked by her ace band and a few guest musicians, Price …

Sturgill Simpson is set to make his acting debut in $1, a new series on CBS All Access, the network’s online streaming and video on-demand subscription service. The show, a murder mystery set in a small Rust Belt town called Braden, stars Jeff Perry, Hamilton‘s Leslie Odom Jr., and John …

He’s put out a handful of solo albums in his day, but for much of his multi-decade career in Nashville, Phil Madeira has been more than content standing in the background. “I mean, I play with Emmylou Harris, man,” says the no-nonsense musician, who since 2008 has been the bandleader …

“Meet Me in Heaven” Those four words were inscribed on the tombstone of 14-year-old Jack Cash, the older brother of J.R. “Johnny” Cash, who was just 11 years old when Jack died following a horrific table-saw accident at a school workshop near the family’s Arkansas home. Later, in a career …

Dierks Bentley has a knack for choosing just the right party songs – propulsive, hands-in-the-air jams that are all but irresistible whether on the radio or on the stage. Perhaps surprisingly, the singer-songwriter considers his latest single, the empowering “Woman, Amen,” to be cut from that same cloth. “It’s a …

Brandon Lay was heading home from a gig one evening when a new melody swirled its way into his head. Without taking his eyes off the road, the country-rocker grabbed his iPhone and got to work. “I didn’t have any lyrics yet, so I was just humming, ‘yada yada yada’ …

Moving to Nashville was a bigger decision for Bex Chilcott than it is for most musicians. For Chilcott, who performs under the name Ruby Boots, heading to Music City meant more than simply leaving home. It meant leaving her native Australia and starting a new life more than 11,000 miles …

Steve Earle and his longtime band the Dukes return to the road this week with a series of City Winery shows across the country, leading up to next month’s launch of the Copperhead Road 30th Anniversary Tour. The newly announced trek will feature the songs from Earle’s third album, issued …

With a new music video released on Monday, breakout singer Luke Combs puts a dark, cinematic spin on his latest single, “One Number Away.” Co-written by Combs with Sammy Mitchell, Steven Andre Battey, Carlos Battey and Robert Williford, the ballad’s conflicted lyrics describe a guy struggling not to break down …

In the past five seasons of Nashville, whenever things have looked their bleakest – or their most deadeningly dull – one of the most reliable go-to moves has been a song from the Stella sisters, Lennon (Maddie) and/or Maisy (Daphne). This week there were far less stifled yawns than during …