Music Country

Singer-songwriter Amanda Shires released the song “The Problem” in September as a duet with her husband Jason Isbell, but she had also conceived its frank discussion of abortion as being a conversation among several women. That idea is now a reality with a new version of the song titled “Our …

Morgan Wallen took retail giant Walmart to task after copies of his upcoming opus Dangerous: The Double Album appeared on shelves at a small number of stores around the country this weekend. A spokesperson for Walmart says the album was prematurely displayed and sold ahead of its official January 8th …

Dolly Parton has reaffirmed her living-saint status with the news on Tuesday that she may be partly responsible for helping supply some hope during the Covid-19 pandemic. In April, the Country Music Hall of Fame member donated $1 million to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center toward Covid-19 research, funding that, …

Amigo the Devil has announced plans for the follow-up to his 2018 debut Everything Is Fine. Titled Born Against, the new project will be released February 19th, 2021. Born Against brought the Austin-based Amigo the Devil to Dallas, where he cut tracks at Modern Electric with producer Beau Bedford (Texas …

Four days before Election Day 2020, Nashville singer-songwriter Allison Russell (Our Native Daughters, Birds of Chicago) offers up a powerful spoken-word essay that outlines her difficult personal upbringing and finds her negotiating her bundle of identities, while also urging Americans to vote this election. “The only things I know for …

Ward Davis, a contemporary and collaborator of modern-day outlaws Cody Jinks and Kendell Marvel, has announced his new album Black Cats and Crows. Due November 20th, the announcement arrives with the brooding title track, an ominous piano ballad in which Davis questions why the deck is stacked against him. “God …

Jaren Johnston talks about the challenges of getting played on country radio, how he writes songs for specific artists, and the time he met Meat Loaf in an elevator as Chris Shiflett‘s guest on Walking the Floor. The Cadillac Three singer-guitarist wrote a few songs with Shiflett prior to taping …

Luke Combs‘ new song “Without You,” one of five bonus tracks on his upcoming What You See Ain’t Always What You Get deluxe album, is a stirring ode to the people who have shaped him into the man he is today. But what further sets the song apart is the …

In an effort to help Nashville’s independent music venues survive the pandemic, the city’s Convention & Visitors Corporation and the Music Venue Alliance have partnered to launch the virtual concert series Music City Bandwidth. The series will host 30 performances in September and October, with artists including Andrew Combs, Devon …

Tim McGraw returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night to perform “Hard to Stay Mad At,” a track from his new solo album, Here on Earth, his first in five years. Seated underneath a chandelier and in front of a towering window view in his home, McGraw and …