John Prine‘s new video for “Summer’s End” packs an emotional wallop, carefully and beautifully rendering a story about a family grappling with loss. “Summer’s end’s around the bend, just flying,” sings Prine in the opening line, summoning that bittersweet feeling of change in the song from his 2018 album The …
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Singer Dustin Lynch‘s summer just got a lot better, with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry. Trace Adkins surprised the Tullahoma, Tennessee, native while he was performing on the Opry’s Tuesday night show. Removing his hat, Lynch was clearly overwhelmed while Adkins spoke. “All the folks at the …
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Kacey Musgraves isn’t one to play things safe, but she plays the role to the hilt on a charming, bubbly new cover of “Kansas City Star” that will appear on the star-studded King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller album coming later in August. Miller scored a Top …
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Saturday afternoon at the Hinterland Music Festival in Saint Charles, Iowa, Sturgill Simpson and Wheeler Walker Jr. popped up during Tyler Childers’ midday set to give a cheeky performance of Walker’s song “Sit on My Face.” Though not a song that requires much imagination for the uninitiated to Walker’s catalog, …
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Country duo Dan + Shay offered up a double shot of tunes on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night, including their intoxicating multi-week Number One, “Tequila.” https://youtu.be/edVkKiu2UH4 Taking a large outdoor stage to play for a responsive Southern California audience, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney jumped right into their latest chart …
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David Crosby made a surprise appearanceduring Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s headlining set at the Newport Folk Festival Friday to perform a pair of Crosby, Stills & Nash classics. Crosby, who was not on the lineup for this year’s Newport Folk Festival, joined Isbell for “Wooden Ships” and the …
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A cover of an Eighties classic by a promising new trio, the latest nautical-themed entry from a country superstar and a gorgeous message of being in the moment are among the 10 tracks you must hear this week. Nobody’s Girl, “Call Me” Blondie’s 1980 chart-topper gets a millennial makeover. Caught …
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Two years after breaking through with their genre-shifting album Sea of Noise, St. Paul and the Broken Bones have announced their new album, Young Sick Camellia, due September 7th. To coincide with the announcement, the roots-soul octet has also released the album’s lead single, “Apollo,” a dance-leaning disco-horn strut that …
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The week after Morgan Wallen released his debut album If I Know Me, the Sneedville, Tennessee, native was enjoying his first Number One song on the Country Airplay chart – only thing was, the feeling of excitement was slightly complicated by the fact that he wasn’t the artist who recorded …
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Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert would make for an all-star pairing in any instance, but in the splashy new music video for their duet “Drowns the Whiskey,” the country music titans are nearly upstaged for top billing by the song’s titular drink. The video’s numerous close-up shots of an ice-filled …
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