Stamped hands, bar bands and fake IDs all figure into Keith Urban‘s new song “We Were.” A slice of earnest nostalgia, the vibey mid-tempo ballad yearns for those romances that we all know won’t last but are essential to our formative years. Urban runs through a roster of vivid imagery …
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Individually and as collaborators, married Nashville songwriters Buddy and Julie Miller have provided a steady stream of material for artists from Emmylou Harris and Levon Helm to Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert to record. But with Buddy also multi-tasking as a solo artist, producer and touring musician, and Julie slowed …
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Jade Jackson has released the muscular tune “Bottle It Up,” her first new music in two years. The song will appear on the southern California singer-songwriter’s new album Wilderness, which was produced by Social Distortion leader Mike Ness. Propelled by bright strums of acoustic guitar and a toe-tapping tempo, “Bottle …
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Chris Shiflett toured American alongside Blackberry Smoke earlier this year, kicking off the promo cycle for his upcoming solo album, Hard Lessons, with a handful of shows supporting the Georgia-based country-rockers. Months later, he sits down with frontman Charlie Starr and drummer Brit Turner for a new episode of Walking …
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It’s well established that women in country music are underrepresented when it comes to radio, award nominations and headline spots at festivals, and now Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative have some new research data to back it up. Using the year-end Billboard HotCountrycharts from 2014 …
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Brothers Osborne made their daytime television debut with a visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where they performed their current single “I Don’t Remember Me (Before You).” The duo is also set to perform at the 54th ACM Awards on April 7th. Though Brothers Osborne’s second album Port Saint Joe …
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Ratcheting up the promotion for her just-released sophomore LP, Girl, Maren Morris stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night to play a smoldering rendition of the album’s title track and lead single. Cowritten by Morris, Greg Kurstin and Sarah Aarons — who also shared in the …
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The Johnny Cash Heritage Festival, on the grounds of the legendary Man in Black’s boyhood home in Dyess, Arkansas, will be hosted by the late entertainer’s Grammy-winning daughter Rosanne Cash. Also headlining the concert on Saturday, October 19th, will be award-winning artist and country-music historian Marty Stuart. The theme for …
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The coincidence isn’t lost on Mary Bragg that her two new songs “Fight” and “Fool” are being released on Valentine’s Day. Both tracks, from the Nashville singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Violets as Camouflauge (out March 1st), deal with relationship struggles and the ways people respond as things are falling apart, or …
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The Felice Brothers have announced details ofUndress, the follow-up to 2016’sLife in the Dark,dueMay 3rd. The upstate New York band offer a preview of the record with the album-opening title track, which is composed of dark, dizzying impressionistic images — “trigger happy deputees” and “conservatives in lobster bibs” — taken …
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