There’s a budding singer and songwriter in Thomas Rhett‘s household. On Aug. 9, the singer posted an adorable video of his oldest daughter, Willa Gray, telling fans she recorded her first song! It’s everything you’d expect vocally to come out of a 6-year-old, but it’s the lyrics that are too funny, yet relatable at the same
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When musician Joe Troop visited the Arizona borderlands with his band Che Apalache in 2019, he had a shattering experience. While going into the Sonoran desert with guide Randy J. Mayer of Good Shepherd United Church of Christ, Troop and his mates came across a marker for an unknown 16-year-old boy who’d died during the
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Near the end of Martina McBride‘s recently opened Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit sits a red T-shirt with the word “tomato” printed on it. After a radio programmer compared female artists to the tomatoes in a salad — that is, to be sprinkled into playlists sparingly — in 2015, the country star was one of the
Without fanfare or advanced warning, Billy Currington dropped his seventh studio project, Intuition, on Friday (Aug. 6). The album is the first full-length project Currington has released in six years, following his June 2015 record, Summer Forever. That project included a number of straight-ahead country tracks, like the No. 1 hits “Do I Make You Wanna”
Alan Jackson wrote a song especially for his daughters’ weddings, and in a new interview, he shares the reaction his late son-in-law had upon hearing the track. Jackson’s new single is “You’ll Always Be My Baby,” a song from his current album, Where Have You Gone. He wrote the song to serve as his daughters’
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.) Suzanne Santo, “Mercy” Former
August 8, 2021 FEATURED, Music News Black Eyed Peas Release New Single “Hit It” featuring Saweetie and Lele Pons Just when you thought they couldn’t go any bigger, six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning, genre-bending pioneers Black Eyed Peas unleash a blockbuster new single and music video entitled “HIT IT” featuring Saweetie, & Lele Pons. The track brings together an icy multiplatinum hip-hop force of nature
By the time Luke Bryan released Tailgates & Tanlines on Aug. 9, 2011, he’d placed two albums in the No. 2 spot on the country albums chart, earned five Top 10 singles (including two No. 1s) and won a few awards. His third studio album, though, kicked his career to another level. It started with “Country Girl
The title track from Scotty McCreery‘s Same Truck album is a likable message of unity that fits safely within the singer’s comfortable repertoire. Images of rural America color a guitar and mandolin-led arrangement that finds the 27-year-old focused on the world around him. McCreery has done little of this across his four previous studio albums. Songs of love and
It’s only been a few months since Thomas Rhett released his fifth studio album, Country Again: Side A, but the singer threw fans a curveball on Friday (Aug. 6) and shared something brand new. That’s “Redneck Be Like,” a fun, uptempo anthem timed perfectly to go along with his return to the road on Friday (Aug.
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 Friday. Elevated by buoyant horns
August 9, 2021 FEATURED, Music News 98 Degrees Turn Back The Clock With Their New Single ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’ 98 Degrees embrace the ’90s in the video for their anthem, “Where Do You Wanna Go.” Wearing bucket hats, turtleneck sweaters and backwards baseball caps in the music video, they start the day off
Carrie Underwood is one of the biggest stars in contemporary country music, but it wasn’t that many years ago that she was just another young singer looking for a break. Underwood was almost entirely unknown when she auditioned for American Idol on Aug. 8, 2004, in St. Louis, Mo. The clip above shows the young singer
Years ago, Phoebe Hunt spent an afternoon at an audition with a friend. She’s gone on a whim, but when the time came, she simply couldn’t follow through with the opportunity. “While we were there, the audition atmosphere kicked in,” Hunt recalls, “and my friend started saying weird things to me like, ‘I can’t do
Glen Campbell was undoubtedly one of the greatest guitarists in the history of recorded music, but a video compilation of his best solos over the years is still amazing, even if you know that going in. Though Campbell’s own hit records gravitated toward song-based recordings that mostly featured an emphasis on vocals, with relatively simple
Lynyrd Skynyrd have canceled four shows from their current summer tour after guitarist Rickey Medlocke tested positive for Covid-19. “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lynyrd Skynyrd is unable to perform the next four shows in Canton, OH, Jackson, MI, Atlanta, GA and Cullman, AL,” the band wrote on social media Saturday. “Longtime band member Rickey Medlocke
August 8, 2021 FEATURED, Music News Pop Artists Nea & Shy Martin Team Up For The New Single “No Regrets” (Credit: Jasmin Storch) Acclaimed Swedish artists & songwriters Nea and SHY Martin have released a brand new collaboration titled, “No Regrets.” The song is out now here. Watch the official video here. After working together for years as songwriters writing for others, longtime
Rodney Crowell is one of those rare talents who has found success as both a singer and a songwriter in equal parts. As a recording artist, he’s released more than 20 studio albums, earned a couple of Grammy Awards and taken five singles to No. 1. As a songwriter, he’s written hits for everyone from Waylon Jennings to Keith
Luke Bryan recalls the time he did get to spend with his late brother Chris in a new song called “Songs You Never Heard.” He describes it as a centerpiece of his new IMDB docu-series, set to launch on Friday (Aug. 6). Josh Osborne and Luke Laird wrote “Songs You Never Heard” after watching clips
The Mavericks are one of the most innovative country bands around. Formed in Miami, Fla., in the late 1980s — and fronted by vocalist Raúl Malo — the band melds traditional country, blues and soul sounds with Latin instrumentation and styles. The group first broke big with their third album, 1994’s platinum-selling What a Crying Shame,
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real performed three songs from their latest album A Few Stars Apart for CBS This Morning’s Saturday Sessions. For the performance, the band showcased “Perennial Bloom (Back to You),” “More Than We Can Handle,” “Giving You Away” from their album, which Nelson and company wrote and recorded during the pandemic
August 6, 2021 FEATURED, Music News “IT’S TIME FOR HIP HOP IN NYC” FREE CONCERTS!!! (only 2 days left to get your tickets) MAYOR DE BLASIO AND ROCKY BUCANO ANNOUNCE “IT’S TIME FOR HIP HOP IN NYC” FREE CONCERTS TO BE HELD DURING NYC HOMECOMING WEEK, AUGUST 14-22Concerts to air exclusively on Twitch channel Behind
Chris Young‘s fans had to wait a bit longer than usual for his new album, but he thinks the wait will be more than worth it. Collaborations with Kane Brown, Lauren Alaina and Mitchell Tenpenny dot the 14 songs on Famous Friends, each showing the singer’s versatility, as well as his willingness to stand alongside
Jake Owen‘s new single “Best Thing Since Backroads” is most like his second radio release from Greetings From … Jake. It’s a progressive throwback, if one will allow such a contradiction. An Alabama-esque guitar (this time an acoustic/electric combo) opens this new song, as it did the shuffling “Down to the Honky Tonk” in 2018. But
Garth Brooks released his mega-hit “Friends in Low Places” in 1990, and the song became an instant classic, winning Single of the Year at both the CMA and ACM Awards and spending four weeks at No. 1 on the charts. But while you likely know the lyrics by heart — what country music fan doesn’t?!
Before he was even out of his mid-20s, Parker McCollum had established himself as one of the preeminent artists on the Texas music circuit — the sort of singer-songwriter with a country twang who could sell out arenas and amphitheaters across the Lone Star State, was as “Red Dirt” as they come, and had done
Trace Adkins was not invited to Blake Shelton‘s recent wedding to Gwen Stefani, but in a humorous new interview, the country singer says he wouldn’t have wanted to attend. After much public back-and-forth about which of their circle of famous friends might perform at the wedding, Shelton and Stefani ultimately opted to keep their ceremony
Mitchell Tenpenny‘s new single “Truth About You” stops just short of naming names. “Yeah, you told your friends, you told your mama / That I’m the root of all the drama / But we both know why this ended / Girl, I caught you red-handed,” he sings to close the second verse. Wow — that’s
August 4, 2021 FEATURED, Music News Watch Billie Eillish’s Dynamic Live Performance Of ‘Male Fantasy’ Pop star Billie Eillish has released a live performance video of ‘Male Fantasy’ for VEVO, it’s the last track taken from her brand new album ‘Happier Than Ever’. In the latest performance video, Eilish and her brother and frequent collaborator