Miranda Lambert released her seventh studio album Wildcard on Friday, and in one final plug for the LP, the country star appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers Thursday night to perform one of her new songs, “Mess With My Head.” The rocking track dispenses with the usual fiddles-and-banjo of country …
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“Will we meet again, long after the end?” asks Dylan LeBlanc in the new song “Unanswered Questions,” released via ATO Records on Tuesday. And though the Louisiana native’s latest is a weeper that wrestles with the mystery of what becomes of us when we die, the video feels more like …
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Little Big Town eschew the traditional dramatic video treatment in favor of actual musical drama in their engaging new live-performance video for the twangy “Over Drinking.” Nestled into a compact gray room, the foursome — Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook — are joined by a keyboard …
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Tanya Tucker puts on her finest cowgirl attire and saddles up her horse for one final ride in the elegiac video for “Bring My Flowers Now,” the stunning closing track off her comeback album While I’m Livin‘. Directed by Trey Fanjoy, the clip finds Tucker slowly ambling down a mostly …
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When Chris Janson shot the album cover for his new release Real Friends, out Friday, he went full high-class hillbilly: reclining in a silver-dollar-studded 1964 Pontiac Bonneville that was once owned by Hank Williams Jr. and now resides in the garage of Kid Rock, who loaned it out to the …
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The 30th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards took place in Raleigh, North Carolina, Thursday night with Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers taking the top prize, Entertainer of the Year, with their very first nomination in that category. Mullins and band also shared the Collaborative Recording of the Year, for …
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AmericanaFest grew to nearly South by Southwest proportions this year, with concerts seemingly going on all day long at venues, backyards, and parking lots across Nashville. Heavy hitters were everywhere, like Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker, and the Mavericks, who somehow shoehorned their big band onto two of Nashville’s tiniest stages: …
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The Avett Brothers have released “Bang Bang,” a smoldering preview of their forthcoming album Closer Than Together. The piano ballad finds the group fired up and furious about American gun violence, tackling everything from the presence of guns in movies to the proliferation of assault-rifles used by men “pretending to …
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When Guy Clark died in 2016, Vince Gill turned to his friend’s old melody. He began playing the rhythmic talking-blues guitar line that the Texas singer-songwriter had written to on classic songs like “Let Him Roll” and “Randall Knife.” Gill knew the melody well: back in the early Eighties, he …
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One week ahead of the release of While I’m Livin’, her first all-new album in 17 years, Tanya Tucker reveals the LP’s emotional closing track, “Bring My Flowers Now.” A prime showcase for the Texas-born legend’s wise yet wistful vocals, the song’s powerful message — to show appreciation for those …
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