As the release of their collaborative album The Marfa Tapes draws near, the trio of Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall are popping up with live appearances. On Wednesday, they performed the song “Geraldene” on The Ellen DeGeneres Showand followed it with the Thursday announcement of a new documentary. …
Read More »Sam Williams Sings 'Can't Fool Your Own Blood' on 'Colbert'
Singer-songwriter Sam Williams doesn’t shy away from the family name in his television debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. For his performance of “Can’t Fool Your Own Blood,” the grandson of Hank Williams performs in the eerily empty Franklin, Tennessee, home where the country great once lived. Rather …
Read More »Joy Oladokun Delivers a Stunning 'Breathe Again' on 'Fallon'
Nashville singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun made her late-night television debut on Tuesday with a sparse, haunting version of her piano-driven pop ballad “Breathe Again.” “Follow me down where the water runs deep,” Oladokun sings, switching from full-throated pop belting to a folky whisper from one line to the next. “I’ll let …
Read More »It's All Going to Shot: Willie Nelson Gets the Covid Vaccine
On Wednesday morning, Willie Nelson, 87, fired up his car at his Spicewood, Texas, ranch and headed to a drive-up clinic in nearby Cedar Park to receive his Covid-19 vaccination shot. “We’re lucky,” Nelson’s wife Annie tells Rolling Stone. “We made sure that [he] wasn’t cutting anybody — in fact, …
Read More »Erin Rae Confronts the South's Legacy of Racism in New Song 'He's Not Free'
At first, Erin Rae‘s new song “He’s Not Free” sounds like a sweetly rendered Southern pastoral, full of “early summer peaches” and “cold water glasses sweating.” But by the end of the first verse, when Rae rhymes “honeysuckle vines” with “Georgia voters stood in all-day lines” it’s clear that “He’s …
Read More »Mickey Guyton: Charley Pride 'Made It Possible for Me to Have a Career in Country Music'
Mickey Guyton never had the opportunity to meet Charley Pride in person but she says his groundbreaking role as a black singer of country music helped her to have her own career in Nashville. Pride died Saturday from complications related to Covid-19. Related: Charley Pride’s Essential Songs “Charley Pride means …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Announces Memoir 'Broken Horses'
Brandi Carlile has earned accolades — and Grammy awards — as the songwriter of such personal works as “The Joke,” “The Story,” and “The Mother.” This spring, she’ll share an even more intimate, lengthy tale with the release of her first memoir, Broken Horses. Due April 6th via Crown, an …
Read More »Doug Supernaw, Nineties Country Singer of 'I Don't Call Him Daddy,' Dead at 60
Doug Supernaw, the Texas-born Nineties country singer who had a string of radio hits in the early part of the decade, including the 1993 Number One “I Don’t Call Him Daddy,” has died at 60 following a lengthy bout with lung and bladder cancer. Supernaw’s death was confirmed by his …
Read More »Ryan Bingham Pays Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, Jerry Jeff Walker With Shaver's 'Live Forever'
“You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone,” Billy Joe Shaver sang in his signature anthem “Live Forever.” The Texas songwriter died October 28th at 81 after suffering a stroke, immediately casting that lyric into stark reality. Just a few days prior, Jerry Jeff Walker died at 78 after a long …
Read More »2020 CMT Music Awards: How to Watch, Who's Performing
Just five weeks after the ACM Awards navigated the pandemic with a multi-venue broadcast, the CMT Music Awards stage their own unique show, calling upon some of the genre’s biggest names (Taylor Swift presents, Luke Combs performs) to help pivot from the usual live arena production to a special of …
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