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Zac Brown Band make an upbeat plea for peace and coexistence in the new song “Same Boat,” which was released on Friday. It’s the group’s first single under a new agreement between Warner Music Nashville and their Home Grown Music. Written by the group with Ben Simonetti and Jonathan Singleton, …

Dierks Bentley’s Seven Peaks Music Festival will return for its third year over Labor Day Weekend 2021. Bentley announced dates and the lineup for the festival on Monday and Tuesday, with Keith Urban, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Kip Moore among the performers. Bentley revealed the lineup via a series …

“So the house lights will be up. I’ll take a look around, maybe raise up the ‘Cheers!’” Dierks Bentley says, taking a break from strumming his acoustic guitar to lift a can of peach-pear LaCroix to eye level and predict how a live audience might react after a year without …

American Aquarium released a new album early Friday morning, a record that represents a solid pivot for the longtime roots-rock band. On the heels of BJ Barham’s homespun livestream covers series, the North Carolina singer-songwriter convened his players in an Asheville, North Carolina, studio last November to record a full …

Brad Paisley encourages people to get their Covid-19 vaccination in a new commercial that plays up Nashville’s sports culture rather than its reputation as Music City. The singer-guitarist narrates and appears in the ad, presented by Vanderbilt Health and filmed in part at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the home of the …

Kacey Musgraves shared a cover of Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” while Nelson himself performed the country standard “Beautiful Texas,” during Matthew McConaughey’s “We’re Texas” fundraiser on Sunday, March 21st. Musgraves’ performance begins at the 1:26:23 mark, with the musician explaining how she got involved in the fundraiser: “The …

Brandi Carlile will perform her first live band concert since the start of the pandemic on March 28th, a livestreaming performance airing from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. On Thursday, Carlile announced that a select few vaccinated fans will be able to attend the concert in person. Fans who have either received …

Bonnaroo is currently slated to return in September, but the festival grounds won’t sit dormant until then. A new socially distanced live-music series —“Concerts on the Farm” — is set to kick off in May. The run begins with Billy Strings on May 28th. The singer-guitarist, who won his first …

Kenny Chesney mixes the romantic sailboat opulence of Duran Duran’s “Rio” video with the salt-of-the-earth drama of George Clooney’s The Perfect Storm in the new music video for his song “Knowing You.” Filmed in Gloucester, Massachusetts — the same location in Clooney’s 2000 film — the clip finds the country …

In the mid-2000s, Miko Marks was trying to make a serious run at mainstream country stardom. She put out a pair of albums, 2005’s Freeway Bound and 2007’s It Feels Good, posing in a cowboy hat for both cover images, and showed herself to be a skillful singer who was …