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Willie Nelson & Family and Hank Williams Jr. will headline the inaugural Born & Raised Music Festival. Set for Pryor, Oklahoma, the three-day fest runs June 5th through 7th and features an impressively curated mix of traditional country artists like Nelson and Williams, Red Dirt acts like Cody Canada & …

On the same day she announced her new album Never Will, Ashley McBryde performed the LP’s lead single “One Night Standards” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Dressed in a sequined top that revealed her many tattoos and strumming a Fender Jazzmaster, the Arkansas native sang her straightforward ode …

Cult R&B singer Swamp Dogg joins up with singer-songwriter John Prine on the duet “Memories,” a track from Swamp Dogg’s upcoming album Sorry You Couldn’t Make It, out March 6th. With a studio band that includes Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on guitar, “Memories” — a song the 77-year-old Swamp Dogg …

As one of the principal songwriters in the Deslondes and a onetime member of Hurray for the Riff Raff, Sam Doores has helped define a New Orleans country sound that embraces swamp pop, honky-tonk, R&B, and blues. Now Doores has announced his self-titled solo album — set for a 2020 …

So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. The first half of Miranda Lambert’s decade was defined by big radio hits like …

“I think I oughta say something about that song now,” Don Williams would tell concertgoers between the tunes he’d play while seated on a stool, guitar in hand. “I’ll think of something and say it later.” The joke being that country’s “Gentle Giant” would rarely get around to saying much, …

Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, and Tim McGraw are set to headline the 2020 Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival, which takes place April 17th to 19th in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. While the beachside three-day festival remains close to its country origins in its eighth year, the lineup also boasts an …

Lady Antebellum have announced the autumn release of Ocean, the trio’s first full-length LP since 2017’s Heart Break and first since departing longtime label Capitol Nashville. Ocean, due November 15th, teams the group with producer Dann Huff for the first time, and marks Lady A’s debut project for Big Machine …

Blues icon B.B. King often said in interviews that the blues and country music were “first cousins.” Riley B. “Blues Boy” King was born on this day in 1925, and is being paid tribute in today’s Google Doodle, which depicts the legendary musician playing his signature guitar, “Lucille.” Hitchhiking to …

“Hey, homecoming queen, why do you lie?/When somebody’s mean, where do you hide?” asks Kelsea Ballerini in the new song “Homecoming Queen.” Released overnight, it’s the first taste of the “Miss Me More” singer’s follow-up to her 2017 album Unapologetically. A gentle, mostly acoustic tune that calls to mind the …