Music Country

While using the term “country and western” to describe much of contemporary country music is woefully outdated, there remains a legendary exception to that rule: Riders in the Sky. The quartet, who celebrated 40 years of performing together at a special performance in Nashville, has been on what they term …

In 1965, Shawn Colvin was a young piano student in Vermillion, South, Dakota, when she was given Lullabies and Night Songs, a book of songs for children, including many traditional tunes, arranged for piano by Alex Wilder and distinctively illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator of classic, award-winning …

Though he’s got an impressive seven Number One singles to his credit, Cole Swindell has thus far played a supporting role on tours with superstars Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean, among others. That changes in 2018, when Swindell launches the Reason to Drink Tour, his first-ever headlining trek. …

Just a season-and-a-half after killing off the character of country queen Rayna Jaymes, the rest of the Nashville will take their final bows. Lionsgate Television Group, which produces the show, has announced that the series’ upcoming sixth season (and second on CMT after being canceled by ABC) will be its …

The old Taylor may not be able to come to the phone right now, but that doesn’t mean you won’t hear new music from Swift on country radio. In fact, a new track from her recently released sixth album Reputation, “New Year’s Day,” was just serviced to country radio by …

For all the discussion surrounding Keith Urban’s “Female” – whether it does too much, says too little, uses the wrong pronouns – one thing it has done is help keep afloat the conversation about the never-ending gender imbalance in country music. Song Suffragettes, a women-only showcase in Nashville dedicated to …

Brett Young was in the running for New Artist of the Year honors at Wednesday night’s CMA Awards, but on last night’s episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live! the “In Case You Didn’t Know” singer was tasked with an arguably more important matter: writing a song to accompany a viral video …

“I’m only here because Seth Meyers was booked,” Blake Shelton told a laughing Jimmy Fallon last night, seconds before the country singer bit into a caramel-covered onion. Let’s back up a bit. With a new album, Texoma Shore, arriving this Friday, Shelton has been in full court press mode, filling …

It’s been eight months since Thomas Rhett launched the Home Team Tour, his biggest headlining run to date. Now, with more than two dozen sold-out arenas under his belt, he’s planning a return to the road in 2018. Kicking off April 5th, 2018, the Life Changes Tour will occupy Rhett’s …

If ever a cartoon were to summarize the maniacal imagination of JD Wilkes and his Southern Gothic band the Legendary Shack Shakers, it would be a modern-day take on Minnie the Moocher. Cue the new Halloween-appropriate music video for “Sing a Worried Song,” animated by former Rick and Morty artist …