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Carolina Story’s “Dandelion” offers listeners a bit of hope and encouragement in a hard time. Readers can press play above to hear the brand-new track, premiering exclusively on The Boot. Uptempo and folky, “Dandelion” is “a love letter urging people to keep hanging on, taking it one day at a time, to not lose that

[embedded content] Kacy Hill‘s incredible new album Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again has arrived. After originally being scheduled to release last month, it finally was released Friday. Of course, it features a number of the singer’s previously released tracks including “Everybody’s Mother,” Unkind,” “Porsche,” and “I Believe In You” featuring Francis and the

Luke Combs has rescheduled all of his remaining 2020 tour dates until 2021, citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The “Lovin’ on You” singer was originally supposed to be headlining the What You See Is What You Get Tour through December. “Never in a million years did I think the show I played in Europe this

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are letting fans see inside their private life away from the spotlight in their new video for “Happy Anywhere,” and they’re teasing the upcoming release by dropping a short excerpt clip online. The country star and his pop superstar girlfriend are slated to release their new song on Friday (July

Chris Young‘s 2020 single “If That Ain’t God” is a reminder to stop and enjoy the innate beauty and miracles big and small in the world. Fans took an immediate liking to the tune when the singer teased it on social media about a month before officially releasing it as a single. Matt Roy, Mitchell Oglesby

Niko Moon aimed his debut single at Summer 2020, but circumstances have prevented country music fans from living out his “Good Time” for real. The pop-friendly beat tells a familiar story of loving and laughing and drinking and picking around a campfire. It’s a style that fits Moon like a worn-in pair of bluejeans, the kind

The pop superheroine the world needed returns right now…multiplatinum artist, singer, songwriter, and activist Zara Larsson is back with a new single and music video entitled “Love Me Land.” Get it HERE via TEN/Epic Records. This marks her first release of 2020. On the track, an orchestral warbling chant rings out as she announces, “Here I am, lost in ‘Love Me Land’.” It flows right

Matt Rollings may not be a household name to many, but in music circles, he’s piano-playing royalty. The Grammy-winning producer and musician releases his new album, Matt Rollings Mosaic, in August, recruiting an all-star list of guests from Vince Gill to Alison Krauss to record original songs and standards like “Accentuate the Positive.” For his

People everywhere are doing their part to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). But one country artist recently found himself in a rather frightening situation with a fan, who got too close to him at a concert. Singer-songwriter Clayton Gardner of Austin, Texas, was entertaining fans in nearby Irving on Friday (July 17).

Thirty-one years ago today (July 22, 1989) was a big day for George Strait: It was on that date that Strait soared to the top of the charts with his single “What’s Going on in Your World.” “What’s Going on in Your World,” which was the second single from the Texan’s Beyond the Blue Neon album, was Strait’s

Home Free‘s newest a cappella cover is a timely message, from a perhaps unexpected source. The band calls for unity in its version “Everybody Walkin’ This Land,” a powerful message first delivered by singer-songwriter Paul Cauthen. Throughout the song, Cauthen’s lyrics asks disparate groups of people to “with open hearts, open minds, lend a helpin’

Olivia Lunny is poised as the next breakthrough Canadian artist/songwriter. At seventeen she released her self-titled EP in early 2018 that garnered her a Western Canadian Music Award nomination for “Pop Artist of the Year”. That success led to her appearance on season two of CTV’s The Launch,  resulting in her winning episode 4 and recording the

Photo Credit – Daniel Malikyar Global pop superstar Anne-Marie returns with her brand-new single and video “To Be Young” featuring Doja Cat, today via Warner Records.  Listen HERE and watch HERE. “To Be Young” embodies the boundless ups, downs, learnings, dreams and realities that are experienced throughout life as we each try to figure out our paths. In the new youth anthem, Anne-Marie proclaims “We’re

Billy Strings made his late-night debut on Monday, performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with his band. But it wasn’t simply a promotional push for his latest album, 2019’s Home. Instead, the bluegrass prodigy was raising awareness about the plight of independent music venues, many of which are in danger of closing for good without a

When Eric Church released his single “Stick That in Your Country Song” in June of 2020, the song’s mentions of war, underpaid teachers and protests in American cities felt incredibly of-the-moment. In reality, it’s a prime example of that cliche about things changing yet staying the same: Davis Naish and Jeffrey Steele co-wrote the track

The legal battle between the country trio formerly known as Lady Antebellum and the Black jazz singer named Anita White over the name Lady A — a moniker for which the band has three federal trademark registrations and now wishes to officially use and share with White, who has gone by that name professionally for

Cam has announced the details of her sophomore album, The Otherside, and a new song, “Classic.” The record is due out in October. In an interview with Music Row, the singer-songwriter shares that she split her writing sessions between Nashville, New York and Los Angeles, chronicling her journey over the past five years into the new set of songs. Cam

With the release of “Every River,” the second track to be issued from their upcoming album, Arm in Arm, North Carolina’s Steep Canyon Rangers rise to meet the challenges of a “ruthless age” via a stirring anthem rooted in bluegrass and old-time gospel music. Featuring an impassioned lead vocal from guitarist Woody Platt, “Every River”

Back when he was a fledgling songwriter with a new publishing deal, Michael Hardy was hanging out with his dad and a friend at the Nashville drinking establishment Tin Roof. He had only a few dollars to his name, so he bought a tall PBR for six bucks and nursed it as slowly as possible.

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are set to release “Happy Anywhere,” an undying love song co-written by Ross Copperman and Josh Osborne, and frankly, why wouldn’t they? Here’s the scoop on the couple’s new song, expected to land at country radio on Friday (July 24). “Happy Anywhere” follows Shelton and Stefani’s 2020 smash hit “Nobody But You,”

Kaylee Federmann didn’t always want to be a pop artist. Before her singing days, she had a strong love for dolphins. After watching the movie Dolphin Tale, the Newton, MA native fell in love with the idea of being a dolphin trainer. The idea of being a singer came a little later.   When she