Margo Price turns in a stripped-down cover of Joni Mitchell’s wistful Christmas classic “River” in a newly released video. A longtime Mitchell fan, Price originally performed her version of the song during a Planned Parenthood benefit in the fall. Performing solo at an electric piano, Price begins with the familiar …
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Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Countryselects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. Pony Bradshaw, “Dope Mountain” Pony Bradshaw gives …
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Hal Ketchum, the Grand Ole Opry member and hit country singer of “Small Town Saturday Night,” died Monday night at 67 as a result of complications from dementia. Ketchum’s wife Andrea confirmed the news on Facebook Tuesday. “With great sadness and grief we announce that Hal passed away peacefully last …
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Morgan Wallen was set to make his Saturday Night Live debut on October 10th as the long-running sketch show’s musical guest. That won’t be happening. The 27-year-old Tennessee native says he was uninvited from performing on SNL after videos surfaced of him partying last weekend in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in apparent …
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Dave Hause interprets the songs of two wildly different artists on a new double EP. Patty/Paddy features the punk troubadour interpreting five songs by Americana songwriter Patty Griffin and five by Paddy Costello, of the Minneapolis punk band Dillinger Four. Hause, the leader of Philadelphia group the Loved Ones, previews …
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Last October, Tanya Tucker performed a thrilling, sold-out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Next month, the country singer will release a live document of the concert on its one-year anniversary. Live From the Troubadour arrives October 16th via Fantasy Records. Tucker announced the album on Friday with the …
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Some weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Nashville singer-songwriter India Ramey was wrestling with the still-fresh outcome and writing songs, when an image came to mind that provided an appropriately unsettling tone to what she was feeling. “A lot of times when I write a song, I visualize it as …
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“Everything you said/Was half true at best,” Kathleen Edwards sings on “Fool’s Ride,” the latest song from her forthcoming album Total Freedom. A knowing reflection on a relationship that turned sour, the breezy, mid-tempo rocker is a telling moment on Total Freedom, which was written while Edwards was in the …
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Caylee Hammack and Alan Jackson have released a cover of Don Williams’ 1981 hit “Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good,” transforming the positive ballad into an equally optimistic duet. Both Hammack and Jackson are Georgia natives, and they recruited another fellow Georgian to produce the collaboration: Dave Cobb. The …
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Willie Nelson was the musical guest onJimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night, performing his song “I Never Cared for You” with his sons Micah and Lukas Nelson. Later, Nelson chatted with guest host George Lopez about COVID-19 — which Nelson referred to as “all the B.S. going on around the world …
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