With Chris Stapleton‘s From A Room: Volume 2 poised to debut in the top spot on the charts, the country vocalist has been making the rounds on the talk circuit. On Monday, he gamely performed “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” with guest host Chris Pratt on Jimmy Kimmel …
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Chris Stapleton‘s fans have known for most of 2017 that they could expect two new LPs from the Grammy winner this year, but now they have a release date and track list for the second of those, From A Room: Volume 2. Last Friday, during the first of two sold-out …
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As a child growing up in the Smoky Mountains, Dolly Parton had a homemade doll that her mother fashioned from a corn cob, with shucks for a dress and a corn tassel on top. The handmade playmate would inspire Parton’s very first song, “Tiny Tassel Top,” written when she was …
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At least 58 people were killed and 500 wounded when a shooter opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a country music festival outside Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Sunday night. Jason Aldean was performing onstage at the time of the shooting. The shooter killed himself, according to reports, bringing …
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Patterson Hood considers himself to be a pretty cynical person. As one of the leaders of Drive-By Truckers, he’s spent the past 20-plus years channeling that cynicism into writing songs that expose the dark urges and broken promises of the American project in songs like “Putting People on the Moon,” …
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When the Country Music Association announced the nominees for the 51st CMA Awards on Monday, the biggest surprises involved two very different guys named Jason. Country chart-topping superstar Jason Aldean was shut out in all categories, while Americana outlier Jason Isbell scored an Album of the Year nomination for his …
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“It’s the worst being sick on the road,” Sturgill Simpson tells Rolling Stone Country, texting from a tour bus on a 1,600-mile haul from Arkansas to South Florida, where, Tuesday night, the unconventional country singer plays the last of three stadium dates supporting his childhood heroes Guns N’ Roses. He’s …
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