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.) Caleb Lee Hutchinson, “Slot
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Ray Charles enjoyed tremendous commercial success in country music in the mid-’80s with songs from his Friendship album, but his most long-lasting influence on the genre came 20 years earlier. Songs from Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music and Volume 2 of the same title didn’t touch the country charts, but the two albums from
Joshua Ray Walker has announced a new album, set for release this fall, and if its lead single is any indication, it’s going to be a fun one. “Sexy After Dark” arrived on Friday (Aug. 13), and is available to hear below. “There’s a deep history of sexy-crooner country songs played by dudes who were
Live Nation has updated its COVID-19 safety protocols to require proof of vaccination or a negative test at all of its upcoming live events. According to a Rolling Stone report published on Saturday morning (Aug. 14), Live Nation will require all artists, staff and fans in attendance at upcoming concerts and festivals to furnish either
As she continues to recover from her July hip surgery, Tanya Tucker is wiping her August tour calendar clean. On social media, the singer says she hasn’t “been given the green light to travel just yet” by her doctor, and that she will cancel the six concerts previously on her August tour calendar. “My doctor
Kip Moore and Ashley McBryde seem to have a new collaboration in the works. On Thursday (Aug. 12), Moore posted a selfie with McBryde on Instagram, in what appears to be a recording studio or writer’s room, telling fans they are “gettin’ close” to finishing whatever they’re doing: Moore is currently working on a follow-up to Wild World
Tim McGraw‘s 19-year-old daughter, Audrey, plays the lead role in the music video for his new song, “7500 OBO,” flipping the story line of the song’s lyrics to be not about a guy and his truck — but rather, a girl and her truck. And while the original idea for the video was to follow
Michelle Branch and her husband, Black Keys drummers Patrick Carney, are expecting their second child together. The singer-songwriter announced her pregnancy on social media on Sunday (Aug. 15), choosing an adorable baking-themed motif to break the news about her “bun in the oven.” “You know you’re pregnant when…” she wrote in the caption of her
August 16, 2021 FEATURED, Music News The “Rumors” Are True, Lizzo Is Back! All the rumors are true: Lizzo has returned with a brand new single. “Rumors” continues Lizzo’s familiar format deep-bass synth and triumphant horns as Lizzo fires off at her haters. The single features rapper Cardi B. The video depicts both the artists as
From 1978 until her retirement in 2013, Nanci Griffith, who died August 13th at age 68, included numerous cover songs in her repertoire from writers as diverse as Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack (“Battlefield”) to Guy Clark (“Desperados Waiting for a Train”) and Julie Gold, whose “From a Distance” had been roundly rejected until Griffith
Luke Bryan released his debut album, I’ll Stay Me, on Aug. 14, 2007, on Capitol Records. Produced by Jeff Stevens, the record has since been certified gold. Before releasing I’ll Stay Me, however, Bryan had found success as a songwriter: He wrote Billy Currington‘s hit “Good Directions,” which shot straight to the top of the charts in 2006, for example. Clearly, the future
Nanci Griffith wrote songs that the music world loved to cover. With news of her death on August 13th at the age of 68, many are revisiting her folk and country standards — or learning about her incredible singing and songwriting gifts for the first time. But throughout the 1980s and into the Nineties, she
Fourteen years ago today, on Aug. 14, 2007, Luke Bryan released his debut album. I’ll Stay Me was released on Capitol Records. After working in a grocery store and on his family’s farm, Bryan moved to Nashville and focused on his career. By the time I’ll Stay Me was released, Bryan had already found success as a songwriter, having co-written Billy
Tim McGraw‘s daughter, Audrey McGraw, plays the lead in his new music video for the song “7500 OBO.” The just-released clip is about a truck, but it’s so much more than that. While in the song “7500 OBO” the truck is up for sale became it reminds the protagonist too much of an ex, the
In the early morning hours on Monday, Aug. 9, a man broke into the Nashville condo of singer-songwriter Joel Crouse and walked out with a plethora of his belongings. Crouse was there, but was sound asleep at the time. “I’m a heavier sleeper than I thought,” the 28-year-old admits during an interview a few days after
That high lonesome note that Joshua Ray Walker held in his spine-tingling ballad “Voices” hits in an entirely different way in his swaggering new song “Sexy After Dark.” While “Voices,” a breakthrough for the Texas songwriter, was a dark, somber commentary on suicidal ideations, “Sexy After Dark” is a gloriously confident anthem that frames Walker’s
Kenny Chesney is selling his spectacular hilltop estate just outside of Nashville, and pictures show a stunningly lavish residence that’s fit for a king. Chesney’s four-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 12,599-square-foot residence is an opulent stone villa that’s situated on a hilltop on 56 lushly wooded acres of land in the affluent Nashville suburb of Franklin, Tenn., which
Chris Stapleton‘s rendition of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” leans into the song’s dark and doom-y melody. It’s faithful to the original hit, but with some quintessentially-Stapleton twists. For one, a lengthy guitar solo stretches the six-and-a-half-minute song to over eight minutes, and offers the country star a chance to show off his skills as his band
Jordan Davis‘ collaboration with Luke Bryan on ”Buy Dirt” makes for a perfectly-country, down-home-comfortable music video, too. The video, much like the songs advises, keeps it simple and focuses on the important things in life: family, the guys (Davis and Bryan) and a guitar. It opens with a black-and-white shot of Davis standing in a field with just
Chris Stapleton has dropped his rendition of Metallica’s 1992 single “Nothing Else Matters,” which appears on The Metallica Blacklist as part of the band’s 30th anniversary reissue of its self-titled album, also known as The Black Album. Stapleton fuses his country-soul leanings with heavy-metal undertow in his sprawling eight-minute rendition, substituting groove for the thunderous
Luke Bryan says his nephew, Til, had a unique bond with his late father that can’t be replaced, and he’s looking forward to showing him and his sisters footage of both of their late parents in a new documentary about Bryan’s life and career. The country superstar has suffered the untimely loss of a close family member
When Callie Twisselman thinks about cowboys, she thinks about her father. “I’d get up every morning at 4AM when I was about eight years old and go with him to haul the grain,” the country artist with the authentic-sounding voice remembers. “I remember being really excited just to have the chance to go with my
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
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