When Brooke Eden first began dating her now-fiancée Hilary Hoover, the country singer received some sobering advice: Keep the romance a secret. Any nights out or displays of affection had to happen far from prying eyes, at the request of her team. “We were told we couldn’t be seen in …
Read More »Asleep at the Wheel to Mark 50th Anniversary With Collabs With Willie Nelson, George Strait
Asleep at the Wheel, the long-running and influential Western-swing band, will mark 50 years together with a new album. The aptly titled Half a Hundred Years will be released in October and features a number of all-star guests. The Wheel preview the upcoming LP with the title track, released on …
Read More »Country Songwriter Ray Fulcher Struggled With His Mental Health. He Bets His Peers Are Too
Ray Fulcher was onstage at Nashville club the Listening Room earlier this summer playing songs to an audience of tourists and a smattering of locals. They cheered for “Does to Me,” the Number One that Fulcher co-wrote for Luke Combs and Eric Church, and raised their bottles for fresh anthems …
Read More »Hayes Carll Says Take My Good and My Bad in New Song 'You Get It All'
“I knew the night we met that you get it all,” Hayes Carll sings in his new song, a simple declaration of love and all the good and bad that comes with it. “All my lows and all my highs/all my truth, all my lies/all my rights and all my …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Previews New Album With Cathartic Song 'Right on Time'
Brandi Carlile will release the follow-up to her Grammy-winning By the Way, I Forgive You this fall. The new album, titled In These Silent Days, arrives via Low Country Sound/Elektra Records on October 1st and includes the first single “Right on Time,” premiering Wednesday. “Right on Time” leads off In …
Read More »Dustin Lynch Gets Back to Basics With Two Satisfying New Songs
Dustin Lynch offered up a pair of new songs on Friday. The surprise releases “Pasadena” and “Not Every Cowboy” are the country singer’s first new music to appear since his fourth album, Tullahoma, was released in early 2020. In comparison to the Tullahoma singles “Good Girl” and “Ridin’ Roads,” both …
Read More »Lucinda Williams, Wilco Set for Austin City Limits Hall of Fame
Austin City Limits has announced the 2021 inductees into its Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. Lucinda Williams, Wilco, and Alejandro Escovedo make up the new class. There were no 2020 inductees because of the pandemic. Williams and Wilco have each appeared four times on ACL, the long-running live-music series, …
Read More »Elijah Ocean Previews New Album 'Born Blue' With the Nineties Country Rave-Up 'Thirty-Five'
With its Alan Jackson guitar twang and some dreamy pedal steel, Elijah Ocean’s new song “Thirty-Five” is straight out of a Nineties jukebox. The rambling singer-songwriter and Maine native, who landed in Nashville after detours in Brooklyn and L.A., released the song on Monday as the first taste of his …
Read More »Kenny Chesney Plots 2022 Stadium Tour
Kenny Chesney has firmed up plans for a stadium tour that will kick off next spring. The Here and Now: 2022 Stadium Tour are Chesney’s first live dates to be announced since having to table his 2020 Chillaxification Tour last spring as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. The Here and …
Read More »Carrie Underwood Will Send You a Cameo Greeting for Charity
For $1,000, Carrie Underwood will wish you a happy birthday. The country music superstar is one of a number of country singers appearing on the video service Cameo for the month of June, part of a charitable partnership with the Academy of Country Music’s philanthropic organization, ACM Lifting Lives. Among …
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