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Molly Tuttle‘s covers EP …but i’d rather be with you, too was a quiet surprise upon its release earlier this month, with the bluegrass singer, songwriter and guitarist interpreting songs like “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with guests like Nathaniel Rateliff. On Thursday, Tuttle released a live performance video of …

Joshua Ray Walker kicked off a tour with the duo Carolina Story on Wednesday night at City Winery in Nashville, delivering a tight 30-minute set of songs off his two stellar albums, Wish You Were Here and Glad You Made It. Alas, the Texas singer-songwriter’s cover of Lionel Richie’s “Hello” …

Back in 2009, the Flatlanders released Hills and Valleys, their last album of original recordings. A dozen years later, the Texas trio of Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore reunite for a new record: Treasure of Love will be released July 9th. The LP is technically the follow-up …

Ahead of Sunday’s Academy of Country Music Awards, Ashley McBryde visited The Late Show Friday to perform “Sparrow” from her album Never Will, released a year ago this month in April 2020. As Stephen Colbert noted in his introduction of McBryde — who virtually performed from the stage at Nashville’s …

The popular acoustic group Greensky Bluegrass offer up a spirited cover of John Prine’s classic “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness” in a new video released on Thursday. The track appears on the group’s Leap Year Sessions Vol. 2, taken from a collection of live performances they gave in 2020. …

Fifty years after Jimmy Buffett took the stage for Nashville club Exit/In’s debut performance, the celebrated live music venue is in danger of closing for good. Last week, the building that houses Exit/In — the centerpiece of Nashville’s “Rock Block” and a proving ground for artists from Buffett and Waylon …

Back in October, Lana Del Rey joined Nikki Lane onstage in Austin to perform the song “Breaking Up Slowly.” On Friday, the studio version of their collaboration arrived with the release of Del Rey’s new album Chemtrails Over the Country Club. Written by Del Rey and Lane, it’s a devastating …

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Brandy Clark performed the conciliatory song “Like Mine” on Wednesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The track appears on the upcoming deluxe version of Clark’s album Your Life Is a Record and was penned in collaboration with fellow star Brandi Carlile. In characteristic Clark fashion, “Like Mine” …

When Jaten Dimsdale started putting cover performanceson YouTube under the name Teddy Swims in 2019, he tried everything from H.E.R. to George Strait, just to see who was listening. “It turned out that people were liking everything, or they just liked the personality. . . or my voice,” Dimsdale says, …

Morgan Wallen‘s record label announced Wednesday morning that it has “suspended Wallen’s record contract indefinitely” following a video that surfaced showing the fast-rising country singer using a racial slur. “In the wake of recent events, Big Loud Records has made the decision to suspend Morgan Wallen’s recording contract indefinitely,” the …