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In country music, the cowboy archetype has long produced great songwriting. That’s partly because the idea of the cowboy is more complex than you might think. Some cowboys are rugged and a little dangerous, which adds mystery and intrigue to their portrayal. Others are stoic and strong, which means they’re dependable, but not necessarily the
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When Taylor Swift released Fearless, her sophomore album, on Nov. 11, 2008, she was an 18-year-old rising with a platinum-certified debut album and five Billboard 100 Top 40 singles to her name. Fearless, though, would put her on an even faster track to superstardom. “Fearless was an album full of magic and curiosity, the bliss and devastation of youth,” Swift
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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 last week’s best songs.) Nate Barnes, “You Ain’t Pretty”
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Rosanne Cash’s tackles America’s disgraceful history of lynchings in her searing new song “The Killing Fields.” “The blood that runs on cypress trees/cannot be washed away,” Cash sings over a sparse arrangement provided by her musical partner and husband John Leventhal. “By mothers’ tears and gasoline/and secrets un-betrayed.” “A few years of my own personal
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Miranda Lambert has released a short and sweet solo acoustic rendition of her latest single “Settling Down,” which originally appeared on the 2019 album Wildcard. Written by Lambert with her regular collaborators Natalie Hemby and Luke Dick, “Settling Down” is a study in contrasts. Lambert’s narrator seemingly sits at a crossroads and considers the decision
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As access to COVID-19 vaccination grows, the Brothers Osborne were able to have a particularly sweet reunion recently: They got to hug their mom, Trish, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. “She’s fully vaccinated and passed her grace period or whatever you need after that. So it’s been nice,” TJ Osborne recounts
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Rosanne Cash‘s new song “The Killing Fields” grapples with a dark part of southern United States history: lynchings. The singer-songwriter wrote the song, she shares, during the summer of 2020. “A few years of my own personal reckoning with painful issues of race, racism, privilege, reconciliation and individual responsibility led up to the moment in
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Luke Bryan has an update for fans after he suffered a gruesome accident with a fish hook while fishing on Tuesday (March 30). The country superstar seems surprisingly upbeat and unaffected after embedding two prongs of a fishing lure deep into his hand. Bryan first shared his jaw-dropping injury via Instagram on Tuesday, showing one hook jabbed
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