Farewell tours are so 2020. After the pandemic derailed Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour, the venerable Southern rock band are resuming and rebranding their trek: The Big Wheels Keep on Turnin’ Tour kicks off June 13th and includes 30 dates into November. The group’s core members …
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Cody Jinks and ZZ Top will headline the first Born & Raised Music Festival, a new concert and camping event set for September 17th through 19th in Pryor, Oklahoma, at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds — known to metalheads as the home of Rocklahoma. Billed as a “weekend of …
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Updated (5/26): Additional performers have been added to the 2021 CMT Music Awards, many of them collaborations: Breland and Mickey Guyton; Carrie Underwood and NeedtoBreathe; Chris Young and Kane Brown; Kelsea Ballerini and LANY’s Paul Klein; and Lady A with Carly Pearce and Gabby Barrett. Lauren Alaina is also set …
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Amythyst Kiah delivered a potent version of “Black Myself” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday night. The lead single off her upcoming label debut, Wary + Strange,is a newly arranged rock rendition of the song Kiah first wrote for the supergroup Our Native Daughters‘ 2019 debut, Songs of Our Native …
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Kenny Chesney has scrapped his Chillaxification Tour. Originally set for 2020 and then postponed until 2021, the stadium trek is now slated for 2022 under a new name and with different opening acts, according to a press release. “All of the stadiums on the 2021 itinerary will still host Chesney’s …
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Willie Nelson will have a new book on shelves this summer. Willie Nelson’s Letters to America is an inspiring collection of letters from the Red Headed Stranger to his readers about what it means to be a U.S. citizen. Letters to America will be published by Harper Horizon on June …
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Eric Church will give one of the biggest performances of his career on Sunday when he sings the National Anthem at the Super Bowl alongside Jazmine Sullivan. Today, Church made it clear that he doesn’t want it to be his only performance of 2021. “Hey guys, we are working on …
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Since emerging from the Texas outlaw scene in the early Seventies, Ray Wylie Hubbard has written some of the genre’s smartest, funniest — and most overlooked — classics. A favorite of Jerry Jeff Walker and Eric Church, Hubbard explores everything from his wild past to his deep knowledge of Christianity, …
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Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard gave the live debut of “Undivided,” their song of unity and understanding, during Wednesday night’s Celebrating America inauguration concert. Performing on the east bank of the Cumberland River in Nashville, beneath the city’s pedestrian bridge, the duo talked about the collaboration’s message and origin. Hubbard, …
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Tony Rice, the bluegrass guitarist and vocalist known for his elegant, innovative flatpicking, died Friday at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was 69. Rice’s death was confirmed by the International Bluegrass Music Association, which inducted him into its Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Born David Anthony …
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