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Jason Aldean told his concert crowd in New York that the coolest thing was looking out and not seeing one person wearing a mask. “I’ve had just about enough of this s–t,” he told them on Aug. 7. The concert took place one day after Live Nation announced it would allow artists the choice to implement
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Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out our most recent list.) Caleb Lee Hutchinson, “Slot
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Michelle Branch and her husband, Black Keys drummers Patrick Carney, are expecting their second child together. The singer-songwriter announced her pregnancy on social media on Sunday (Aug. 15), choosing an adorable baking-themed motif to break the news about her “bun in the oven.” “You know you’re pregnant when…” she wrote in the caption of her
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August 16, 2021 FEATURED, Music News The “Rumors” Are True, Lizzo Is Back! All the rumors are true: Lizzo has returned with a brand new single. “Rumors” continues Lizzo’s familiar format deep-bass synth and triumphant horns as Lizzo fires off at her haters. The single features rapper Cardi B. The video depicts both the artists as
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From 1978 until her retirement in 2013, Nanci Griffith, who died August 13th at age 68, included numerous cover songs in her repertoire from writers as diverse as Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack (“Battlefield”) to Guy Clark (“Desperados Waiting for a Train”) and Julie Gold, whose “From a Distance” had been roundly rejected until Griffith
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Luke Bryan released his debut album, I’ll Stay Me, on Aug. 14, 2007, on Capitol Records. Produced by Jeff Stevens, the record has since been certified gold. Before releasing I’ll Stay Me, however, Bryan had found success as a songwriter: He wrote Billy Currington‘s hit “Good Directions,” which shot straight to the top of the charts in 2006, for example. Clearly, the future
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Fourteen years ago today, on Aug. 14, 2007, Luke Bryan released his debut album. I’ll Stay Me was released on Capitol Records. After working in a grocery store and on his family’s farm, Bryan moved to Nashville and focused on his career. By the time I’ll Stay Me was released, Bryan had already found success as a songwriter, having co-written Billy
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That high lonesome note that Joshua Ray Walker held in his spine-tingling ballad “Voices” hits in an entirely different way in his swaggering new song “Sexy After Dark.” While “Voices,” a breakthrough for the Texas songwriter, was a dark, somber commentary on suicidal ideations, “Sexy After Dark” is a gloriously confident anthem that frames Walker’s
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Kenny Chesney is selling his spectacular hilltop estate just outside of Nashville, and pictures show a stunningly lavish residence that’s fit for a king. Chesney’s four-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 12,599-square-foot residence is an opulent stone villa that’s situated on a hilltop on 56 lushly wooded acres of land in the affluent Nashville suburb of Franklin, Tenn., which
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Chris Stapleton‘s rendition of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” leans into the song’s dark and doom-y melody. It’s faithful to the original hit, but with some quintessentially-Stapleton twists. For one, a lengthy guitar solo stretches the six-and-a-half-minute song to over eight minutes, and offers the country star a chance to show off his skills as his band
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