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Ariana Grande has landed a country/Americana act for her team on Season 21 of The Voice. The pop superstar and actor signed on to coach Jim and Sasha Allen on Tuesday night (Sept. 21) after they auditioned with John Denver’s classic song “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” The father-son duo have an interesting back story.

Breland‘s debut song, “My Truck,” came about after a long day in the studio. He was writing with friends when the lyrics and melody came to him, so he immediately recorded a demo — and he always knew the song wasn’t meant for anybody else. His instincts were right: The country-meets-trap song spoke to the hearts

Danny Paisley’s “Date With an Angel” music video tells a love story through the ages. The bluegrass musician is premiering the new clip exclusively with The Boot; press play below to watch. Both Paisley and his son Ryan star in the “Date With an Angel” video. The clip sweetly shows the passage of time in

Breland wasn’t even a year old when Deana Carter released “Strawberry Wine,” her 1996 ballad about the passing of teenage innocence beneath a “hot July moon.” But the country whiz kid who broke out with the viral “My Truck” regards Carter’s song as a touchstone of his introduction to country music. “It really beautifully describes

Mickey Guyton and Darius Rucker are among the all-star list of artists who contributed to Metallica’s recently released The Metallica Blacklist, an expansive project celebrating the metal band’s influence. Both country artists offered covers of “Nothing Else Matters,” each putting their own spin on the song. Guyton’s “Nothing Else Matters” beautifully showcases the lower register of her voice

In spite of the genre’s growth over the past decade, many people have a tough time describing what Americana music actually is. Most can agree on one thing, however: The genre prizes eclecticism. Still, throughout the 2010s, some critiqued Americana music’s elevation of straight white men with acoustic guitars. For example, in 2018, after winning

Barely three days after Dave Brown toasted the 15th anniversary of his Nashville rock venue the Basement with a celebratory concert on February 29th, 2020, the club owner was awoken by a phone call that tragedy had struck at the Basement East, his other venue, across the Cumberland River. A tornado had touched down in

Alan Jackson‘s oldest daughter, Mattie Jackson Selecman, is opening up about the tragic death of her husband of just 11 months in a new book. In Lemons on Friday, Selecman shares how her faith helped her through the grieving process that followed his untimely death. Ben Selecman died on Sept. 12, 2018, after suffering a

Country singer Morgan Evans often gushes about his love for his wife, fellow artist Kelsea Ballerini. But there are other things Evans really loves, too — like his firepit. “I had COVID in March, and it was awful for about a week, but then during that second week when I had to be quarantined, I decided that I was

Chris Stapleton performed three songs off his 2020 album Starting Over for CBS This Morning’ latest Saturday Sessions. Joined by his band including his wife Morgane, Stapleton showcased “Arkansas,” “When I’m With You” and the title track from his latest LP, which arrived in November 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The country star embarked on

Erin Enderlin and Terri Clark are queens of the barroom in their new song “If There Weren’t So Many Damn Songs.” In the spirit of classics such as Waylon Jennings’ “The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don’t Want to Get Over You),” the song is a fiddle-and-steel-heavy weeper that makes feeling bad sound oh so good. “If there weren’t so many songs about

Trisha Yearwood scored one of the biggest hits of her career with “Walkaway Joe,” but in a new interview, she reveals that another country artist came close to cutting the song before she could. “’Walkaway Joe’ was one of those songs that the Judds actually had on hold,” Yearwood tells I Miss…90s Country Radio With

Trisha Yearwood songs are unlike any others in country music. She has carved out a successful and unique niche for herself by finding some of the highest-quality songs in the genre, then recording them in arrangements that bring them to life in a way that is sonically different from any other artist in the commercial country

“I shouldn’t have come here in the first place, cause folks in here don’t like my kind,” Charley Crockett sings in “Music City USA,” the title track of his new album. The video for the song underscores the cynicism of those lyrics and follows the throwback country singer as he makes his way — anonymously

Mickey Guyton‘s “Love My Hair” offers a message of self-acceptance while putting forth a narrative that’s underrepresented in country music: the specific perspective of Black women. The singer recently released the song ahead of the arrival of her debut album, Remember Her Name. Guyton begins “Love My Hair” by describing an experience many Black women struggle with

Sept. 18 might be a day that Willie Nelson would just as soon forget. It was on that date in 2006 that the singer was arrested for possession of marijuana and narcotic mushrooms while on the road in Louisiana. The incident began with a commercial vehicle inspection of Nelson’s tour bus: “When the door was opened and

Beloved by fans of everything from country music to down-home cooking, Trisha Yearwood has been a cultural icon for well over two decades. Born on Sept. 19, 1964, to Gwendolyn and Jack Howard Yearwood, Patricia Lynn Yearwood spent her earliest years in Monticello, Ga., performing in elementary school musicals and church choir groups. Although Yearwood possessed an innate musical

September 17, 2021 FEATURED, Music News G-Eazy and Demi Lovato Search For Solace On The Single ‘Breakdown’ G-Eazy and Demi Lovato brings us a brand new single called ‘Breakdown’ exploring a story both artists have been familiar with. The song appears on the rapper’s upcoming fourth studio album, These Things Happen Too, which arrives on September 24th.

CMT’s Artists of the Year awards show will be back this fall in its usual form after hitting pause in 2020 to recognize pandemic frontline workers in healthcare, military, and education with the “CMT Honors Our Heroes” special. The 2021 CMT Artists of the Year ceremonies, set to air live from Nashville, recognize the successes

When budding country artist Laci Kaye Booth traded her small town of Livingstone, Texas, for the bright lights of the American Idol stage in 2019, it pushed the normally introverted aspiring star out of her comfort zone. Her shy personality was in complete opposition to what the singing show is about — a hurdle she had

Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs and more came together on Sept. 13 for a monumental benefit concert that raised money for middle Tennesseans in need. Loretta Lynn shares that her Hometown Rising concert was a huge success, pulling in more than $900,000 and counting. The tally sits at $933,000, Lynn revealed on Thursday (Sept. 16). The United Way

Larry Fleet‘s “Where I Find God” doesn’t ask listeners to be perfect in their religion, or to be at church every week; in fact, its message is pretty much the opposite of that. Its lyrics remind us that everyone notices the existence of a higher power in different ways and at different times. Fleet co-wrote “Where

Carly Pearce has partnered with Ashley McBryde for a top-flight cheating song in “Never Wanted to Be That Girl,” a duet from Pearce’s 29: Written in Stone. An expanded version of Pearce’s 2021 EP 29, the collection will arrive in full on September 17th. A spiritual descendant of Reba McEntire and Linda Davis’ classic “Does

New country duo FINMAR are in perfect harmony in a new, acoustic performance of their song ”If It Weren’t for You.” The clip is premiering exclusively via The Boot; press play below to watch. In the song, the pair are grateful to their significant others, who have turned them from partying bachelors to the kind of people who

Lauren Alaina knows a thing or two about breakups. Talking to Taste of Country Nights, she refers to at least three men she has dated, two of which were high-profile relationships. The third inspired her current single “Getting Over Him” and created a new mantra for the broken-hearted, but he might be the least important

It would be a stretch to insinuate that The Speed of Now Part 1 will be Keith Urban‘s last album, but his future as an album-focused country artist seems murky. The “Wild Hearts” singer finds himself attracted to a much more immediately gratifying method of music delivery. “We Were,” “God Whispered Your Name” and “One Too Many” with Pink

Jason Isbell vowed to record an album of songs by artists from Georgia if the state went to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. He’s proven to be a man of his word: Georgia Blue will be released digitally October 15th — vinyl and CD versions will be out November 26th — and includes guest