Miranda Lambert gave a standout performance of her hit song “Bluebird” during the 2021 Grammy Awards. Lambert stood on a small platform adorned with colorful flowers positioned underneath the floral sculpture seen during host Trevor Noah’s intro. Her performance was all relaxed cool, befitting the quiet hopefulness of “Bluebird,” and …
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Music subscription service Vinyl Me, Please has announced it will kick off its country music-themed Record of the Month series in March with an exclusive reissue of Johnny Cash’s 1968 classic At Folsom Prison. The VMP Country “membership track” will also rerelease Willie Nelson‘s 1973 album Shotgun Willie in April, …
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The ACM Awards will once again be held in Nashville. Traditionally staged in the spring in Las Vegas, the Academy of Country Music’s flagship ceremony relocated to Nashville for the 2020 installment, which was delayed by the pandemic until September. The 2021 ACMs will ease back into their regular schedule …
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On Tuesday evening, a video of Morgan Wallen casually tossing off a racial slur emerged. By Wednesday morning, his career was systematically being dismantled. In a blowback unprecedented for a white male country music star — the Chicks were ostracized for far less in 2003 — Wallen had his music …
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Luke Combs and Maren Morris are set to participate in a joint online Q&A session February 17th during Country Radio Seminar that will focus on accountability and their roles as artists. Country Radio Seminar 2021, being held as a virtual event due to the Covid-19 pandemic, takes place February 16th …
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Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton and Cassadee Pope were among the country artists to condemn Morgan Wallen after the singer was caught on video uttering a racial slur. Wallen, whose new LP Dangerous: The Double Album has spent three straight weeks atop the Rolling Stone Top 200 album chart, …
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Sean Scolnick still remembers the doctor’s reaction when he asked for a refill of tranquilizers. The Americana singer-songwriter who performs under the name Langhorne Slim was on a solo tour of Europe when his prescription pills to combat anxiety ran out. The doctor was dismayed by how quickly Slim burned …
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Ahead of his new album Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1, due January 8th, Barry Gibb has released another track off the project: a collaboration with Dolly Parton on “Words.” Originally released as a single by the Bee Gees in 1968, the song was written by Barry, Robin and …
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“Lovin’ a music man’s ain’t always what it’s supposed to be,” Journey’s Steve Perry sang in “Faithfully.” In his new song “Doing Life With Me,” Eric Church echoes that sentiment as he lists off all the burdens his loved ones had to carry as he pursued country music stardom. “It …
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Kelsea Ballerini has recruited Shania Twain to join her on an updated version of her hit “Hole in the Bottle,” a track off the country singer’s 2020 album Kelsea. Ballerini said of the collaboration in a statement, “They say don’tmeet your heroes…unless your hero isShania Twain…then meet her, know her, …
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