Breland is not yet a household name, but he and his recently assembled Atlantic Records team are confident that will change quickly. Earlier this month, “My Truck,” the singer-rapper’s country-trap ode to the titular vehicle, reached Number One on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart. His Spotify profile has more than 1.2 …
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The 2020 edition of the Luck Reunion has announced its lineup. Lucinda Williams, Orville Peck, Margo Price, and perennial Luck headliner Willie Nelson are all set to perform at the daylong festival held on Nelson’s Luck Ranch outside of Austin. Slated for March 19th, the Luck Reunion brings together left-of-center …
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Sam Hunt has revealed the track list for his long-awaited second album Southside. The new project will be released April 3rd via MCA. Pre-orders for the album on Hunt’s website show the full list of 12 tracks on Southside, six of which have previously been released. Those include the 2017 …
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have announced their sixth album, Reunions. The Americana singer-songwriter previews the upcoming LP with the new song “Be Afraid.” A jangly slice of low-fi indie rock, the song is a call to action for artists to use their voices to inspire or enact change …
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Last week’s fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise featured no less than four eclectic guitar pulls, culminating with an all-star final night lineup of Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Raul Malo of the Mavericks, and Son Volt‘s Jay Farrar. Each artist sang three songs, including new material from Williams (“Big Black Train,” …
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As the 1960s dawned, Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas became a screen legend with a single role, in the historical epic Spartacus. At around the same time, Johnny Cash, a larger-than-life country-music star, would make an inauspicious big-screen debut in Five Minutes to Live, with results that would suggest he was …
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“Stick it up your ass with your useless thoughts and prayers,” sings Patterson Hood, not mincing words in the Drive-By Truckers‘ rebuke of the gun industry and Second Amendment-blind politicians, “Thoughts and Prayers.” The track is the latest release from the band’s upcoming 12th album, The Unraveling, due January 31st. …
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The 1970s were, arguably, the golden age of classic TV Christmas specials. Before variety shows and specials all but disappeared from the lineups of the three major networks (and before cable TV took over and shrank network viewership), each holiday season brought forth highly rated variety specials to please nearly …
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During last summer’s Newport Folk Festival, David Crosby joined Jason Isbell onstage during his set with the 400 Unit to perform a pair of Crosby, Stills & Nash songs. The collaboration on “Wooden Ships” and “Ohio” was a successful one, and the pair became Twitter buds, tweeting praise and “Hi” …
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Zac Brown Band appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two songs, “Spend It All on You” and “Leaving Love Behind,” on the late night show’s outdoor stage. The latter is the closing track of the group’s new album The Owl, which dropped in September. “Spend It All on You” …
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