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Warren Haynes is taking a breather in his dressing room at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center in Asheville, North Carolina, after powering through a wicked jam of the Allman Brothers Band’s “Melissa” with country duo Brothers Osborne. He’s due back onstage in an hour for another inspired collab: performing Charlie Daniels Band’s “Trudy” with Appalachian hero

Scotty McCreery has just revealed his 2023 winter and spring tour plans. The Damn Strait Tour will take him through 22 cities across America, beginning next month in Oklahoma and ending next April in Maryland. The tour is named after McCreery’s hit song “Damn Strait,” the fourth most-played song on country radio in 2022. The

The country singers lament a Christmas season divided by distance and heartbreak Country Christmas songs can be as saccharine as a holiday cookie. Not “Lonely on Christmas,” Brit Taylor and Mike and the Moonpies’ wonderfully melancholy new collab. “You know it’s time to make a change, when your whole family’s estranged,” Taylor and the Moonpies’

The Voice Season 22 will conclude with its finale week on Monday (Dec. 12) and Tuesday (Dec. 13), and the final episode will be full of superstar performances. The night will see performances from each coach — Blake Shelton, Camila Cabello, Gwen Stefani and John Legend — with their final artists, and guest singers will

In terms of country music’s power couples, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are among the most powerful. Married for more than a decade and friends for more than 30 years, the two country icons prove that love really does stand the test of time. Brooks and Yearwood’s love story is one that was a long time in the

Starting with a simple guitar before a rush of vocals comes flooding in, The Greeting Committee today releases their next single “Anything But You.” Produced by Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus and accompanied by a supercut of tour footage as the official video, the track is heavy hearted yet still carefree. It’s not hard to imagine how “Anything But

JD Shelburne can still remember the days when he was just a little kid standing amongst the big pews of his hometown Baptist church singing the Christmas classic “Away in a Manger.” “It was one of the first songs I learned the words to,” explains Shelburne during an interview with The Boot. “Christmas music developed a

Singer-songwriter makes his late-night debut with groove-heavy track from the 2022 album The Man From Waco Charley Crockett showcased why he’s a must-see live performer when he made his late-night debut on Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Texas singer-songwriter brought depth and swagger to his rendition of “I’m Just a Clown,” a standout

Garth. Wynonna. George. Fans can recognize most of their favorite country and Americana artists by one name alone. Their music is so ingrained in us that we know the words to every song and the notes to every melody … but do we know the names of their backing bands? Believe it or not, lots of your

It’s beginning to feel a lot like the holidays. While we all eagerly await the opportunity to slow down, for many of us, the holidays can be stressful as well. Country music is all about yearning for family and hometown pride, but for many people, that nostalgia is a double-edged sword of anxiety and pain.

Charley Crockett has shared a new music video for his track “Odessa,” a cut from the country talent’s recently-released album The Man From Waco. The clips capture Crockett and his band, the Blue Drifters, hard at work recording the record. The footage has a grainy, VHS-like feel, which fits the analog-style session depicted at Bruce Robison‘s

Elle King has been forced to cancel three upcoming shows after suffering a concussion at home. The singer-songwriter, whose new album arrives in early 2023, shared the news in an Instagram story on Thursday. “No one ever wants to pull out of shows, especially me. I live for performing,” she wrote. “I slipped down the

Chris Housman has an uncanny knack for taking pop country tropes and spinning them into cutting, unvarnished truth. Housman’s breakout hit “Red State Blueneck” is a summery two-stepper that interrogates institutional racism with the catchiest chorus you can think of. (For the record, it’s the first country song to use the phrase “y’all means all.”)

Seventy-six years ago today (Dec, 8, 1945) was an historic day for country music: It was on that date that Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs made their debut on the Grand Ole Opry, as part of Bill Monroe‘s Blue Grass Boys. Flatt and Scruggs’ appearances, which occurred at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, was a fortuitous one for the

Alt-country outfit Lucero has shared a surprising new single from their forthcoming album Should’ve Learned By Now.  The piano-driven ballad “Raining for Weeks” is the perfect, complementary departure from the band’s most recent singles. The track’s music video features lead singer Ben Nichols performing his guitar part alone in the rain, a fitting visual for a somber

There is something uneasy in the full moon — some eeriness, some mystery. A monthly reminder of our infinitesimal nature, the full moon inspired the poems of Hesiod, ancient Ojibwe lunar calendars, and still today, compels amateur astrologists to charge their Amazon-bought healing crystals beneath the new-age moonlight. Now it’s moved Matthew Houck, the artful

Watching the audience react to Shania Twain‘s medley at the 2022 People‘s Choice Awards was as much fun as seeing the energetic performance on stage. Twain offered a preview of her 2023 Queen of Me Tour with three songs from her catalog, and a new song called “Waking Up Dreaming.” “Any Man of Mine” came

Kentucky natives Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan have been tapped as headliners for Railbird Music Festival 2023. The two-day festival will return to Lexington, Ky., on June 3-4 and features an eclectic lineup of performers. Along with a closing set from Bryan, Saturday’s roster includes appearances from Weezer, Marcus Mumford, Whiskey Myers, Sheryl Crow, Charley

Since moving to Nashville nearly ten years ago, Maren Morris has gone from playing dive bars and writers’ rounds to headlining Bridgestone Arena. The importance of that career milestone wasn’t lost on the prolific songwriter, who took the stage for a memorable  performance on Friday (Dec 2). “This is truly astounding to me,” she told

Country music reached an inevitable crossroads in 2022. The dialogues around the genre’s history of exclusion — from the disappearance of women from country radio beginning in the early 2000s to the marginalized artists who’ve made history despite not fitting into the mainstream mold — continued to dominate the conversation. The year’s best country music

Chelsea Cutler and Quinn XCII took to social media to announce they have teamed up once again for a brand new track called ‘Let Me Down’. Their management company also made the announcement posting this via their Instagram; Like always when these two join forces they make a sure fire hit and this song is

Jaimee Harris offers comfort amidst grief with her powerful new track “Love is Gonna Come Again,” which is exclusively premiering at The Boot today (Nov. 29). Penned by Harris and Graham Weber, “Love is Gonna Come Again” is the impressive second single from the talented Texas-born singer-songwriter’s upcoming album, Boomerang Town. The intricate, emotional song taps

Garth Brooks‘ 2023 residency in Las Vegas hasn’t even started and he’s announcing plans for 2024. Twenty-seven dates weren’t enough for his fans to see him at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, so the singer is promising more. Specific dates for 2024 were not revealed with a release sharing news of this extension. Fans who

‘Homeward’ is the brilliant song taken from Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy’s latest album ‘Sonder’. Written by Kennedy himself, it showcases the artist on a bigger stage, that’s more electronic, and less acoustic. Not only is this an incredible song, this album also makes it’s case for album of the year. If you haven’t heard ‘Sonder’,

The New Orleans-based band Ever More Nest never rests on its laurels. Part of the city’s rising Americana scene and the ever-growing queer country scene, the outfit, led by Kelcy Mae Wilburn, crafts a dense folk-leaning sound that swirls with moody atmosphere and incongruous optimism. That duality is captured in the band’s new single, “Happy New Year,”

The defining moment of the new documentary Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon is when Johnny Cash says he found God in the darkness of East Tennessee’s Nickajack Cave in the fall of 1967. Cash, who retold the story many times in later years, was at the height of his fame and in

Cody Johnson has released his first-ever live album, Cody Johnson & the Rockin’ CJB Live, and it includes a powerful concert-recorded track of his smash hit, “‘Til You Can’t.” While the studio version of “‘Til You Can’t” packs a chest-thumping punch, the live version takes it to a whole new level. Complete with Johnson’s introduction

Kentucky native Brit Taylor recruited Texas country outfit Mike & the Moonpies for her new Christmas single “Lonely on Christmas.” The tune is an old-fashioned, honky tonk lament about the pain of not having anyone around during the holidays. In the music video, the Moonpies’ Mike Harmeier joins Taylor through her television from a bar.

The Milk Carton Kids are set to release their first new album in four years this spring and are giving eager listeners a preview of what’s to come with their new single “When You’re Gone.”  Released today (Dec. 2), the bluegrass-leaning track is a somber number about yearning for a lost love. The narrator laments that

Dolly Parton may now be enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t feel a little guilty about it. Ahead of the ceremony in November, the country icon experienced a whirlwind of emotions over her induction, which went ahead, despite her encouraging voters to look elsewhere. “I still