Dua Lipa had the funniest line at this year’s Grammys, right after she won the award for Best New Artist. After noting all her fellow female nominees, Dua quipped, “I guess this year we’ve really stepped up!” It was the first time all night anyone dared to mention last year’s …
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Loretta Lynn will celebrate her 87th birthday with a massive A-list tribute concert in Nashville. Set for April 1st — two weeks before her April 14th birthday —the show benefits the Opry Trust Fund and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and features a lineup of contemporary stars …
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Kacey Musgraves visited the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, performing “Happy and Sad,” from the CMA-nominated LP, Golden Hour. A ballad of romantic promise tinged with melancholy, the gauzy tune, which Musgraves wrote with her Golden Hour co-producers, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, seems a perfect fit for the changing …
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“I wouldn’t have been able to make this record unless I got clean, unless I found what sobriety meant to me. Not what it meant for someone else.” Ruston Kelly is sitting at a corner table at a popular neighborhood pub in East Nashville. He has a natural ease about …
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Kacey Musgraves put her sweet, soft “Velvet Elvis” on display during an appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden Thursday night. The performance from the show’s intimate Stage 56 highlighted one of the many standout tracks from Musgraves’ recently releasedGolden Houralbum, hailed for its sparkling blend of genres, …
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Amazingly, mainstream country is still about ball-capped bros recycling hits from market-study bullet points, while Nashville’s ambitious women remain the primary engine behind the greatest creative renaissance since Willie and Waylon fucked shit up in the 1970s. Kacey Musgraves ushered in the new era in 2013 with her live-and-let-live hit …
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