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TJ Osborne was just settling into his seat on a recent flight to Milwaukee with his brother John when a fan recognized the duo and asked for a picture. “Are you guys famous or something?” a woman seated nearby asked TJ. “Maybe in some circles we are,” he replied, offering …

Those well-versed in Grateful Dead history know that the band, in the early days of their Northern California life, first went by the Warlocks, but that wasn’t actually the beginning of their story. Before becoming the leader of one of the most iconic groups of all time, Jerry Garcia was …

Forever Words, the new collection of Johnny Cash writings assembled by his son John Carter Cash, is all about juxtapositions — both with the Man in Black’s younger and older selves, and with the other artists who set his poems to music. But there may be no more poignant pairing …

Life in a touring string band is a balance of uncertainty, excitement and commitment. No one knows the insides of the curves on that road better than Ketch Secor, the frontman and main songwriter of Old Crow Medicine Show. On “Whirlwind” – the latest song premiered from Volunteer, the group’s …

Little Big Town members Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet manifested their support for Saturday’s March for Our Lives rally by taking to the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, during a stop on their headlining The Breakers Tour. Westbrook and Fairchild publicly documented their experience with a pair of …

As Midland‘s first Number One single, “Drinkin’ Problem” has become a calling card for the trio, and now that song’s flip-side story, “Burn Out,” is the band’s new single. Midland perform the song, along with their unofficial, unreleased anthem “Gator Boys,” in a new series of videos. The performances (presented …

The last time we spoke with Parker Millsap, he was touring in the wake of 2016’s The Very Last Day, a folk album whose powerful, church-tent charisma shone a light on the singer’s roots in gospel music. Two years later, the 24-year-old Millsap is exploring new sounds. . .and making …

Dierks Bentley delivered an old-school, all-acoustic rendition of his surging new single “Woman, Amen,” on the Grand Ole Opry Monday night, hearkening back to the historic radio show’s traditional roots. Looking dapper in a formal suit and flanked by fiddle, mandolin, stand-up bass and acoustic guitar, Bentley unplugged his band …

With Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry – not to mention Merle Haggard and Buck Owens – on Capitol Records in the late Sixties, the label was a country-music powerhouse. And while Gentry had soared to the top of the pop and country charts with her “Ode to Billie Joe,” Campbell‘s …

When Dolly Parton logged her first Top 20 hit on the country chart in late 1967 with “Something Fishy” (also her first self-penned single), she was on her way to a remarkable career that would see her reach global icon status just a decade later. Now, the singer-songwriter, actress and …