Music

Fourteen years ago today (July 25, 2006) was an important day for Jake Owen: It was on that date that the Florida native’s debut album, Startin’ With Me, was released. Startin’ With Me, released on RCA Nashville, includes two Top 20 singles: “Yee Haw” and “Something About a Woman.” Additionally, the record’s title track landed in

Taylor Swift‘s music video for her new song “Cardigan” is a green, vintage dreamscape. Readers can watch the clip, which dropped Friday morning (July 24) above. “Cardigan” compares a good relationship to a beloved piece of clothing: “When I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone’s bed / You put me on and said

Nottingham’s superstars, and BET Award nominees, Young T & Bugsey are back with another huge remix to their global hit, ‘Don’t Rush’  – this time in the form of a mega U.S remix featuring none other than superstar and legendary rapper Busta Rhymes. Listen Here. After the release of their huge Latin remix which featured the popular singer/songwriter Rauw Alejandro and equally huge remix with

“Country music also looks like this,” Mickey Guyton said when she shared a video clip of Nashville artist Reyna Roberts on Twitter back in June. Roberts, seated at the piano with poppy-red hair down her back, was covering Carrie Underwood’s “Drinking Alone,” and she matched the superstar note for note — and with enough unique

Jason Aldean is selling his Florida beach house for $2.95 million, but don’t worry, the country superstar and his family will still be able to spend quality time at the waterfront. Aldean has just purchased an even more expensive beach house in a different part of Florida. According to Realtor.com, Aldean and his wife, Brittany,

Johnny Cash‘s late-career comeback reached another peak on July 24, 2003: On that date, 17 years ago today, the music video for his remake of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt,” from American IV: The Man Comes Around, received six MTV Video Music Awards nominations. The MTV VMA nods for “Hurt” included a slew of technical

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.