Singer-songwriter Harper Grae and her wife Dawn Gates are expecting their first child together this summer — a joyous moment for the couple, though also a bittersweet milestone for Grae, who suffered a late-term miscarriage nearly a decade ago. Her new “Still Your Mother” music video, premiering exclusively on Taste of Country, is for anyone
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Adam Sanders hopes his new song “Do What We Do” will become an anthem. The singer and songwriter took an unconventional approach to writing this track from his upcoming album. A new music video — premiering exclusively on Taste of Country — shows what he’s after. Veteran songwriter Brice Long (Randy Houser, Gary Allan, Jon Pardi)
Jon Randall had been going to Marfa, Texas, and nearby Terlingua since the early 2000s, and he was quickly becoming an evangelist. “It was one of those places that just filled my heart,” the Texas-born songwriter and producer says. “Especially if you’re very creative and ever have an introspective part of you, it’s that place
Miranda Lambert is literally closing the door on a very turbulent chapter of her life. The singer reveals that she has moved off the farm she bought for $3.4 million in 2016 and is currently building a new home with her husband of two years, Brendan McLoughlin. Her old house was a three-bedroom farmhouse with multiple guest cabins
Craig Gerdes tells his own love story in his new song “I Could Get Used to This.” The single, due out on Friday (May 7), is premiering exclusively on The Boot. “From the opening lyric, this song is entirely true,” Gerdes tells The Boot. As the song details, the singer and songwriter married his high
Riley Downing loves to go record hunting. You’re likely to find the singer-songwriter and Deslondes co-founder digging through crates at antique malls — a “good pastime, cheap hobby,” he tells The Boot — in his free time. Fellow vinyl collectors will find themselves in Downing’s latest release, “Start It Over.” The title track of his first-ever
Brandy Clark has announced rescheduled dates for a headlining tour later in 2021. The Who You Thought I Was Tour, named for a song on Clark’s Grammy-nominated album Your Life Is a Record, will officially launch October 25th in Portland, Oregon. Originally set to kick off in March 2021, the 16-date trek will be packed
Carrie Underwood and the Swon Brothers are now well-known in the country music scene, but their relationship goes way back to their college days. Underwood and Zach Swon both attended Northeastern State University. They were in a show together, and they also both took a country music theater class. “The class was so small,” Swon
On July 8, 1968, Tammy Wynette released her third studio album, D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Known for its title track — which was then in the middle of a three-week run at No. 1 atop the country charts — the record became Wynette’s first No. 1 album, and highlighted the hot streak the Mississippi native was on at the
Luke Combs turned footage from his actual wedding into a music video for a song inspired by his wife, Nicole. The new “Forever After All” clip finds Combs at his most vulnerable and jubilant. Particularly notable is how the “Better Together” singer breaks down when he sees his bride walking toward him, dressed in an
Parker Millsap has earned a reputation as a spiritually minded, if not outright spiritual, songwriter. The Oklahoma native described his last record as “gospel sex music” and riffed on yogi Ram Dass’s influential book Be Here Now for the title of his new album: Be Here Instead. “Stop looking ahead/be here instead/this is the prayer,”
Jordan Davis is gearing up to release his next project, an eight-song EP called Buy Dirt that finds the singer getting back in touch with his songwriter roots. Each of the tracks was co-written by Davis, with the exception of the first track, “Blow Up Your TV.” That song is spin on legendary singer-songwriter John Prine‘s “Spanish Pipedream,” which
Some of Brad Paisley‘s best-loved songs aren’t the ones that cut deep to the heart or mine through a lot of emotion. Rather, he’s known for a category of songs that only he can pull off: funny songs. Arguably one of the only country stars that can sing hilarious songs while still being well-respected in
“After all the booze and tears and patience / I’m an overnight sensation / Thirteen years in the making,” sings Lily Rose in her newly released song “Overnight Sensation.” It’s an introspective, mid-tempo look into how just one song can change a singer-songwriter’s career on a dime — and that’s something Rose knows firsthand. This time
Hayes Carll was in the middle of a performance last week when he managed to sum up what many musicians and fans have been feeling for months. “I tell people for the first four years of my career and for the last 16 months of my career, I’d finish a song and nobody clapped,” the
Faith Hill was country music’s most recognizable female star for nearly a decade and is still one-half of country music’s most famous couple today. The singer, mother, model and actress has kept a low profile in recent years, meaning the next generation of country fans may not appreciate her legacy. Indeed, it’s been more than 15 years
Country music’s most successful songs will be celebrated in late May of 2021, and a few singers that have parked themselves at the top of this Top 40 list will be on hand to party. Gabby Barrett is nominated in more Billboard Music Awards categories (May 23) than any female artist, and she’s No. 1 here
Sturgill Simpson brings the same bluegrass sensibilities of his two recent Cuttin’ Grass albums to a new cover of John Prine‘s classic song “Paradise.” The early-career cut reflects on the devastating effects of coal mining in Paradise, Ky., in Prine’s family’s home area of Muhlenberg County. Prine wrote “Paradise” — originally from his debut album, 1971’s John Prine
When Ashley Monroe wakes in the morning, she often heads straight to her closet. “I hear melodies in here,” says the singer-songwriter, calling from inside the cramped space during a recent interview. In the quiet early morning hours of 2018 and 2019, Monroe heard much more than melodies in her closet. Fully fleshed-out arrangements —
Just as Luke Combs’ major-label opening statement, 2017’s This One’s for You, launched a new star with a string of hit singles, Clint Black’s 1989 debut, KIllin’ Time, wasted no time shaking up the country charts. Black’s May 2, 1989, release included four consecutive No. 1 singles: “A Better Man,” “Killin’ Time,” “Nobody’s Home” and “Walkin’ Away.” This
On May 2, 1998, Shania Twain‘s “You’re Still the One” hit No. 1 on the country singles chart. A tender ballad sprinkled with organ, piano and guitar — and, on the bridge, quivering pedal steel and harmonies — ”You’re Still the One” is a loving ode to a significant other. Despite obstacles (and naysayers who thought
Before they got married in 2012, Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren lost a dear friend. It’s taken until now, though for the country star to honor him with a song. “Heaven Right Now,” from Rhett’s newly released Country Again, Side A album, is a conversation with his late friend Hunter. Lauren and Hunter grew up
Fifty years after John Prine first recorded “Paradise” for his self-titled debut album, Sturgill Simpson lends his distinctive voice to Prine’s personal tale of a Kentucky town decimated by strip mining. Simpson’s rendition is set to appear on the upcoming Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows Vol. 2, a tribute album to Prine due this fall.
Happy 54th birthday, Tim McGraw! The singer was born on this day, May 1, in 1967, in Delhi, La. McGraw was raised by his birth mother, Elizabeth “Betty” D’Agostino, and her husband, Horace Smith, whom McGraw believed to be his biological father. However, when the future country star was 11 years old, he found his
Twenty-eight years ago today, on May 1, 1993, Charley Pride became a member of the Grand Ole Opry, 27 years after his debut on the hallowed stage. It was the second time that Opry officials had asked the artist to join the organization’s ranks. In January of 1967, Pride became the second Black performer, and first Black singer,
Orville Peck and Trixie Mattel clearly had plenty of fun making their new duet, a cover of the classic song “Jackson.” The chemistry radiates out of them throughout the song, released on Friday (April 30), and its accompanying music video. From the stage of Los Angeles’ stunningly restored Theater at Ace Hotel, singer-songwriter Peck — donning
When Thomas Rhett began releasing singles in 2012, he was positioned as a scruffy young singer-songwriter in the vein of Eric Church. This was reinforced with the punchy, flirty country-rock of his debut “Something to Do with My Hands” and the more contemplative follow-up “Beer With Jesus,” though neither of those releases had a huge
Raleigh, N.C., native Priscilla Block was set on making a career in music from a young age — so much so that she packed up and moved the 500 or so miles west to Nashville right out of high school. It was a dream inspired in part, she shares, by Taylor Swift. “A huge reason why
On April 30, 1997 — 24 years ago today – Dwight Yoakam made a memorable guest appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ eponymous ABC sitcom Ellen, and became a part of television history in the process. The specific episode was a watershed moment for primetime TV, one that caused national controversy when it initially aired: It was the now-legendary “coming
When Alan Jackson‘s mother, Ruth Musick Jackson, died in January 2017, the country legend wrote a song for her funeral service. Now, fans can hear that cut — “Where Her Heart Has Always Been” — complete with Mama Ruth’s voice. “Where Her Heart Has Always Been,” released on Friday (April 30), begins with Ruth Jackson