Luke Combs gathered a couple of his band members to sing the social distancing tune “Six Feet Apart” for Monday’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The song was first presented as a solo acoustic number in the early days of the pandemic, followed by a studio recording. …
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Willie Nelson has recorded a new version of his classic hit “On the Road Again” with an all-star cast of rising country performers. The remake, dubbed the “ACM Lifting Lives Version,” was released Thursday, with the video to follow on Friday, August 14th. Nelson is joined on the song by …
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In mid-June, the Americana Music Association Foundation announced its plan for Thriving Roots: A Virtual Community Music Conference, with guest speakers including Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, and T Bone Burnett. Set for September 16th through 18th, in place of the annual AmericanaFest in Nashville, the event’s initial programming lineup features …
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Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani sing of domestic contentment in the upbeat new single “Happy Anywhere,” released on Friday. The collaborative tune is the follow-up single to the celebrity couple’s Number One country duet “Nobody But You.” Clocking in at a tight two minutes and 50 seconds, “Happy Anywhere” was …
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The Avett Brothers have released a new animated video for their song “We Americans.” Illustrated by the artist Jason Mitcham, the clip looks at the divided United States through a series of moving paintings and gives new life to the 2019 track, originally released on the album Closer Than Together. …
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The roots-music duo Shovels & Rope will release a deluxe edition of their latest album By Blood in August, fleshed out with new acoustic recordings of five songs from the LP. On Wednesday, the band consisting of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent previewed the stripped-down recordings with the premiere …
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Beneath the veneer of his country-rock stylings, the early work of Steve Earle is shot through with moving descriptions of working-class life. His stirring debut album from 1986, Guitar Town, is haunted by characters hopelessly mired in small-town and rural America, barely scraping by in landscapes that are as bleak …
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For generations of aspiring musicians from the Deep South, country music and R&B are inextricably linked. That was part of the inspiration for a unique blending of performers from both genres for a duets album and corresponding PBS TV special in March of 1994. Rhythm, Country and Blues, released on …
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The same week Ron Pope was set to release his latest album Bone Structure, a tornado ripped through his East Nashville neighborhood and caused devastation just a couple blocks north of his house. He spent most of the next two weeks climbing onto damaged roofs and hauling limbs to the …
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Brett Eldredge gave the live debut of his new single “Gabrielle” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night. An at-home performance, the clip captured the country singer in his backyard in Nashville, playing the song about a busted relationship on acoustic guitar. It’s a bare-bones rendition, but …
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