Jason Aldean was three songs into his October 12th tour stop at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the house lights came up. It was his first full concert since the deadly mass shooting October 1st at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas and his first opportunity …
Read More »Anderson East Details New 'Encore' LP
Anderson East will start the new year off with Encore, his sophomore LP for Low Country Sound/Elektra Records, arriving January 12th. This Friday, October 13th, East will perform “All on My Mind,” the LP’s first single, on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Produced by Dave Cobb and recorded at Nashville’s historic …
Read More »Watch Rodney Crowell's 'Tobacco Road' From John D. Loudermilk Tribute
As classic American songs go, songwriter John D. Loudermilk’s gritty “Tobacco Road” is among the most revered and widely recorded, with the hard-charging 1964 hit version by a band of Brits called the Nashville Teens setting the pace. Among the dozens of others who have since recorded it are Jefferson …
Read More »See Maren Morris' Ska-Infused 'Rich' on 'Fallon'
Maren Morris‘ 2016 LP Hero has its fair share of kiss-offs, none of which are more swaggering than “Rich.” Wednesday night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the Grammy winner turned up the attitude even further with the addition of a horn section for a ska-infused version of the …
Read More »Hear Kris Kristofferson, Lou Reed Talk Songcraft on Rare Live Album
Kris Kristofferson and Lou Reed shared a stage once in their storied careers and the performance is now available via the live album Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson: In Their Own Words with Vin Scelsa, recorded at the Bottom Line club in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood in 1994. …
Read More »Hear Linda Ronstadt's Rare Live 'Blue Bayou'
When it was released in 1977, Linda Ronstadt‘s eighth studio album Simple Dreams became a multi-week Number One for the singer, spawning multiple hit singles and going on to sell more than three million copies. On September 15th, the album will be given a deluxe reissue in recognition of its …
Read More »Hear Thomas Rhett's Autobiographical New Song 'Life Changes'
Following a steady stream of tracks from his upcoming third studio record, Thomas Rhett has released one of his most personal to date, the title track “Life Changes.” Rhett teased the song back in March, noting that its lyrics encapsulate the changes for him and his family over the past …
Read More »Alan Jackson Extends 2017 Honky Tonk Highway Tour
Alan Jackson is adding more miles to this year’s Honky Tonk Highway Tour, with new dates keeping the 2017 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee on the road until early November. The trek, which kicked off in January, will continue to feature special guest Lee Ann Womack, a longtime Jackson …
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