After spending six seasons playing budding songwriter Scarlett O’Connor on the ABC/CMT series drama Nashville, Clare Bowen will release her own debut album this summer. Due July 12th, the self-titled LP features tracks like “All the Beds I’ve Made,” “Tide Rolls In,” with a guest appearance by Americana singer-guitarist Buddy …
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Hot off a busy few weeks that have seen her set new streaming records for a female country artist and rack up nominations at the CMT Music Awards, Maren Morris looks back on her rise to stardom with the help of Busbee and Miranda Lambert in a new episode of …
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With three free daytime stages and more than 110 artists performing across them, June’s CMA Fest offers plenty of no-cost entertainment options for fans over the event’s four days. On Tuesday, the CMA announced a slate of artists who will appear on the free stages: Kassi Ashton, Kelleigh Bannen, Dillon …
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In her new video for “Pretty Shiny Things,” singer-songwriter Kassi Ashton literally faces her vanity — confronting expectations to maintain a perfect appearance on the outside while finding one’s own inner beauty as a source of resistance and power. Penned by Ashton with Emily Landis, the tune’s unsettlingly wistful lyrics …
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“I don’t think I know these songs that well, and I wrote them!” said Maren Morris, complementing the audience early in her sold-out performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday night. She wasn’t exaggerating by much — the singer-songwriter’s new album Girl came out Friday, March 8th, and the Ryman …
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Steve Earle offers a reverent reading of one of Guy Clark‘s most personal songs, “The Randall Knife.” The latest track off Earle’s upcoming Guy, a tribute album to the late songwriter, “The Randall Knife” tells the complicated relationship between a father and son. A track off Clark’s 1995 LP Dublin …
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“I love country music, man,” said a stunned Luke Combs during his acceptance speech for New Artist of the Year at the 2018 CMA Awards in November. The feeling is clearly mutual: with the ascent of his latest release “Beautiful Crazy” to the Number One spot on the Billboard Country …
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Son Volt celebrate the glory in the grind of being working musicians in the new video for “Devil May Care,” which premieres today viaRolling Stone Country.The song is one of the lighter offerings on the band’s upcoming politically charged albumUnion, which will be released on March 29th. Cruising along with …
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For her debut appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Margo Price took a star turn with her song “Cocaine Cowboys,” stretching out the All American Made track into a seven-minute jam and taking a seat behind a second drum kit for an extended musical outro. The country-funk track, a staple of …
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Nashville based singer-songwriter Cale Tyson gets back to basics for the new Narcissist EP, out February 1st. And with the song “Red Blooded Fools,” the spartan set (for which all titles are stylized in lowercase) focuses on contemplation. Written and recorded over a productive three-day period in Tyson’s bedroom, each …
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