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Collin Raye‘s first No. 1 hit, “Love, Me,” is a poignant love story about two grandparents who wait for each other — in this life and the next. But when he became a grandparent himself, the singer and songwriter decided to tell a different kind of love story: this time, about a grandfather and his granddaughter.

Dylan Gerard can’t help but think about what could have been in his new “Please Don’t Let Me” music video. The clip is premiering exclusively on The Boot; press play below to watch. Directed by Craig Harris and shot in Jacksonville, Fla., Gerard’s new music video intersperses footage of the artist and his band performing the song

Regular as clockwork, Jason Aldean will drop a new album in 2021. Titled Macon, it’s the first release of a two-part project. A second LP, Georgia, comes in 2022. But while Carrie Underwood’s duet partner is talking up his latest music on Instagram, his social-media influencer wife Brittany Aldean is using the platform — and

The police officer whom Blake Shelton chose to honor during a tour stop in Tulsa had a surprise for everyone around him. On Friday night (Sept. 24), the singer gave Officer Aurash Zarkeshan the VIP treatment, 15 months after he was shot during a routine traffic stop. Zarkeshan received front row tickets, and a local bank gave $5,000

Trisha Yearwood has shared hundreds of recipes over the years, both on her Food Network television show Trisha’s Southern Kitchen and in her three cookbooks. She still has some favorites up her sleeve, though, including in her forthcoming fourth cookbook, Trisha’s Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends & Family. During a recent interview, Yearwood shared that her chicken

The hook of Cole Swindell‘s new song “Some Habits” is perhaps the most memorable of his career thus far. The singer’s easy new love song isn’t one he wrote, yet somehow, it’s his most personal since “You Should Be Here.” Hearing Swindell work through the comparisons that lead up to his “I love you” moment brings about a

Brandi Carlile and Sturgill Simpson were two of the night’s big winners at the 2021 Americana Honors and Awards, held Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Carlile won the Artist of the Year honor for a second time (she previously won the same award in 2019), while Simpson won Album of the Year

Mickey Guyton has been open about the struggles she’s faced in country music, often advocating for equality and representation within the genre and vulnerably sharing about the personal hardships she’s had to endure. However, she’s not opened up about her husband Grant Savoy’s terrifying health scare and misdiagnosis, until now. Speaking to Today’s Country with Kelleigh Bannen about

The best songs on Mickey Guyton’s debut album Remember Her Name speak to a specific experience, with lyrics backed by her personal journey. Great country music is, above all else, honest, and on this long overdue album, there’s no whiff of something cut only for radio. In that sense, it’s a very non-Nashville record. Guyton

Fall has only just begun, but that doesn’t mean that Carrie Underwood is waiting to celebrate the Christmas season… and all of the things that come along with it. Underwood gave fans a taste of winter a little early with her release of the upbeat new song, “Favorite Time of Year.” Throughout the holiday song,

Jason Isbell bested Trevor Noah in the ultimate test of comedic wit — telling airplane jokes — on The Daily Show Thursday, September 23rd.  The bit began with Noah introducing Isbell as a new musical sidekick, there to peel off a few guitar licks to punctuate the host’s punchlines. The topic of the evening was

Kelly Clarkson has scored another victory in her ongoing divorce from her estranged husband, Brandon Blackstock. According to multiple reports, a judge in the case has declared Clarkson legally single amid the continuing divorce proceedings, which have dragged on for more than a year. Us Weekly and other news outlets have obtained legal documents pertaining

Florida Georgia Line have dropped a surprise music video for “Always Gonna Love You,” a ballad from their fifth studio album, Life Rolls On. The emotional clip, directed by the duo’s longtime collaborator TK McKamy, follows a dad as he drops his daughter off at her home and reflects on their time spent together. The young

Summer may be officially over, but RaeLynn isn’t ready for Sad Girl Fall just yet. Her new song ”Get That All the Time” is a flirty and infectious collaboration with Mitchell Tenpenny. RaeLynn co-wrote “Get That All the Time” with Tyler Hubbard, Kane Brown and her Round Here Records labelmate Corey Crowder. The song finds RaeLynn and Tenpenny trading compliments and plying

“It’s great to be back in Brooklyn,” Jesse Malin deadpanned onstage at the Nashville outpost of Brooklyn Bowl, the bowling-alley-meets-concert-venue he was playing earlier this week as part of the annual Americana Music Festival. Malin, synonymous with New York’s Lower East Side, has been an increasingly regular presence in Nashville. His friend Lucinda Williams lives

Walker Hayes’ infectious hit “Fancy Like” gets yet another boost with a feature from pop star Kesha on a remixed version of the song. The Billboard-charting song caught Kesha’s attention as a fun, relatable track. “This song speaks to me on a very deep level,” the singer shares on Twitter, describing herself as “a southern b—h

Tim McGraw will be the first to tell you that wife Faith Hill saved his life. His exact words were “I’d be dead,” but the full story is deeper and much sweeter. It’s also just one part of this week’s trivia video. How well do you know Tim McGraw? Questions about his raising, his tattoos,

Alan Jackson finds himself onstage at the Mother Church of Country Music with some of the genre’s legendary names in his newest music video, for his song “Where Have You Gone.” The black-and-white clip honors, as Jackson describes it, “real country music”: songs with steel guitar, banjo, fiddle and other traditionally country instruments. Peter Zavadil directed

Moments after John Prine’s family accepted a posthumous Song of the Year award for the singer-songwriter’s final release, “I Remember Everything,” Prine’s friends and stylistic inheritors Amanda Shires, Margo Price, and Brandi Carlile took the stage at the 2021 Americana Honors & Awards to perform the gorgeous ballad. The event was held in-person with a

Twenty-two years ago today (Sept. 24, 1999) was a big day for Lonestar: It was on that date that the band scored their first platinum album, signifying sales in excess of one million units, with their Lonely Grill disc. All four of the singles from Lonely Grill went to the top of the charts, including the

William Lee Golden couldn’t take another piece of bad news. His sons, Rusty, Craig and Chris, were mourning the loss of their mother while the famed Oak Ridge Boys member with the iconic white beard was mourning the loss of his first wife and high school sweetheart. And due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the world

The last time Jesse Malin celebrated an album release, there were no vaccine debates, no masks and no businesses shuttering or families grieving due to a global pandemic. That record, 2019’s Sunset Kids, is steeped in Malin and producer Lucinda Williams‘ alt-country and lyrical sensibilities and is an eternal snapshot of a different world that seems a lifetime away.

Willie Nelson gathers his real-life family and the Family Band for a new album of cover songs and Nelson classics. Titled The Willie Nelson Family, the LP features the country music stalwart’s interpretations of George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” and Kris Kristofferson’s “Why Me,” along with updated takes on “Family Bible” and “Heaven and

In her Artist of the Year acceptance speech at Tuesday night’s (Sept. 22) 2021 Americana Honors & Awards, Brandi Carlile praised her peers and friends — Allison Russell, Yola and Joy Oladokun among them — for, during a difficult year, creating “music that has moved me, elevated me beyond where I thought I could go.” “To be Artist

Mark Wystrach’s most celebrated movie role to date didn’t come without a little sacrifice and anxiety. The Midland lead singer tells Taste of Country that he tried to cancel his audition for the Gary Paxton part in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and things only got worse from there. With some (more than gentle) coaxing from

September 22, 2021 Music Spotlight: Tate McRae [embedded content] Tate Rosner McRae was born July 1, 2003. At the age of thirteen, she gained recognition as the first Canadian finalist on the reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance. In 2019 Tate McRae caught the attention of RCA Records after her original song

Thomas Csorba and his wife Alex are one of the countless couples to have their wedding plans postponed, altered or otherwise affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. But his new song, “Crystal Eyes” — premiering exclusively on The Boot — only recalls the beauty and ethereal feeling of the big day. “When I listen back to this song, I

Lil Nas X celebrated the release of his debut album Montero by re-inventing Dolly Parton’s signature song “Jolene” during a recent performance for BBC Radio One’s Live Lounge. Singing in a deep baritone over a sparse rock arrangement, Lil Nas X delivered an intense, gender-flipping rendition of Parton’s 1973 hit about a woman with “flaming locks