In a normal year, a few thousand lucky ticket-holders would be descending on Fort Adams in Rhode Island right now for the Newport Folk Festival, gearing up for a series of one-off performances in one of the most stunning settings imaginable. One unforgettable Newport performance happened in 2017, when John …
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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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Matt Rollings may not be a household name to many, but in music circles, he’s piano-playing royalty. The Grammy-winning producer and musician releases his new album, Matt Rollings Mosaic, in August, recruiting an all-star list of guests from Vince Gill to Alison Krauss to record original songs and standards like …
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Indigo Girls have released “Change My Heart,” the first music video from the duo’s latest album Look Long. Band member Emily Saliers wrote the track after watching the documentary Inner Worlds Outer Worlds, by Canadian meditation teacher Daniel Schmidt. “‘Change My Heart’ is about the intersection between spirituality and the …
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Luke Combs and Maren Morris are among the all-star group of artists set to perform during SiriusXM’s Highway Finds Fest, a virtual event that gets underway this Friday, July 17th. Additional performers include Sam Hunt, Kelsea Ballerini, and Carly Pearce. Named for SiriusXM’s popular country channel the Highway, the Highway …
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AC/DC‘s landmark 1980 LP, Back in Black, turns 40 on July 25th, and they’re marking the occasion by releasing vintage videos from the era on YouTube. The newest one is a performance of “What Do You Do for Money Honey” from a February 1981 show at Nippon Seinenkan in Tokyo. …
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Not too long ago, Margo Price was offered the chance to collaborate with a more famous artist. Some people around her thought it was a good idea, but Price wasn’t sure. “I love collaborating with people, but I’m not going to do it just because somebody’s famous,” she says. “I …
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Three years ago, Bea Kristi uploaded a low-fi love song called “Coffee” to YouTube. Little did most listeners know it was the first song she’d written, ever. “I came home from school one day, and I think my dad had noticed that I was getting depressed and kind of bored, …
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