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Dillon Carmichael switches into full-on power ballad mode in his new song “Dancing Away With My Heart,” the latest track to be released from his upcoming Dave Cobb-produced debut album Hell on an Angel. Mixing Carmichael’s burly baritone with the defiant spirit of a late-night Lynyrd Skynyrd sing-along, “Dancing Away …

Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods closed out his 2018 album Both Ways with “Next Year,” a straightforward, urgent message about the myriad ways we tend to put things off until it’s too late. In the song’s new video, there’s no distraction from that message — just Woods performing straight to the camera …

When Eric Church‘s debut album Sinners Like Me hit in 2006, it signaled a brash new direction for country music. Here was an artist who, although leaning heavily on rock & roll, maintained a foothold in country, especially with his enlightened workingman lyricism. Naturally, Church evolved over his next four …

Eric Church steals more music than a college kid on Napster in the new music video for “Desperate Man.” But Church is doing it the old-fashioned way: swiping the master tapes and hitting the road in a cinematic heist. With camera shots and scenes that evoke such crime capers as …

Since its release in 2016, “Tin Man” has become a signature song for Miranda Lambert, and a regular highlight of her live performances. On Thursday night, Lambert was joined for a particularly haunting rendition of the song by Little Big Town, her co-headliners on the new Bandwagon Tour. https://youtu.be/_vQ3Mx5Rrps Held …

Lauren Alaina paints an autobiographical picture of her climb to success in the heartfelt track “Three,” and a new performance video puts the personal meaning behind her words in stark relief. Co-written by Alaina with Seth Ennis and Jordan Reynolds, “Three” comes from the 2017 album Road Less Traveled and …

Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Garth Brooks follows up his slick Number One ballad “Ask Me How I Know” with a blast of honky-tonk that’s more in line with what was on the radio when he first won Entertainer in 1991. “All Day Long” is “Rodeo” for 2018 Garth, …

Britton Buchanan cut an unorthodox path through The Voice on his way to a second-place finish behind Brynn Cartelli. First, Buchanan was often carrying a guitar on a show that focuses primarily on vocalists (it’s called The Voice, after all). He returned frequently to the heartland rock canon – Bruce …

The summertime heat is already descending upon Texas, and with it Lone Star singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, who has announced his annual free hometown show on the Fourth of July. Keen, a tireless touring artist who already undertook a wintertime jaunt earlier this year with old friend and fellow Texas …

North Carolina’s American Aquarium take a hard look at increasing political division in the video for their new single, “The World Is on Fire,” and end up placing their bets on the goodness of the human spirit. Gritty and apocalyptic but with strong undertones of hope running throughout, the clip …