The Americana musician, actor, and Texan has been staying busy otherwise, including regularly touring with The Texas Gentlemen. Now that partnership will be codified via the new album.
It’s fair to ask if The Eagles’ ‘Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)’ released 50 years ago today should it be considered a country album, or at least, mostly or partly country, or country-inspired.
Captain Augustus “Gus” McCrae, Colonel Kilgore, Consigliere Tom Hagen, ol’ Mac Sledge, and so many more. These are the fictional characters that all feel larger than life to us thanks to Robert Duvall.
“Country Nowadays” does NOT represent actual country music these days at all. It represents one man’s over-ripened perspective as he overextends himself by feverishly grasping for attention for his dying career.
Never let the Outlaw visage obfuscate your view that these are the songwriters who often most fearlessly plumb their way into the innermost depths of human emotion.
In 2026, The Blue Ox Festival features a stacked lineup of country and roots talent, topped off by some of the top live performers of the discipline, some of the greatest live acts in all of music.
“King” George Strait, Miranda Lambert, along with Keith Gattis and Don Cook will be this year’s Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees in a ceremony set to transpire on February 21st.
Mark Chesnutt is fine, and according to his publicist, Chesnutt has been fighting off a sinus infection lately. But folks at the Oxford Performing Arts Center in Oxford, AL became worried Thursday evening.
Few women in country music have racked up as much street cred as Michigan’s Rachel Brooke. And few bring as much pain and real-world weariness behind their words and voices as Rachel.
The upshot is that the album was recorded with his touring band, self-produced and written on the spot, and that he considers it a, “a dance record,” a “protest,” and “pure, unfiltered, unapologetic, relentless disco-hedonism.”
If you wish that country music had been frozen in a stasis during its greatness of the Golden Era of the ’50s, you’ll immediately warm up to what Muchacho Sanchez has cooked up with his debut album.
Jerry Kennedy was there for some of the most important moments in American music history, participated himself, and lived a life that was inexorably entwined with the beauty and success of so much music.
Zach Bryan, recently took to social media to post a parody of Brantley Gilbert’s “Dirt Road Anthem” that we’ll call “Chili on a Hot Dog,” and it’s pretty damn hilarious. Gilbert has since responded, and it’s pretty funny too.

Flatland Calvary fans rejoice, because the boys from Lubbock have a new one on the way called Work of Heart. Featuring 12 new tracks, the album will be issued on the recently-relaunched Lost Highway label.
It’s miraculous that no musicians have so far been directly involved or implicated in any of the Epstein revelations. But the same can’t be said for the music industry, and specifically Casey Wasserman.
What a remarkable legacy of music and memories Pete Finney leaves behind. The steel guitarist and music historian was beloved across country music, and performed with some of country music’s biggest stars.
Country Music Hall of Famer, renown guitar player, part-time member of The Eagles, and all around country music good guy Vince Gill is continuing his celebration of 50 years in music by extending his 2026 tour.
Jelly Roll is finally starting to experience the widespread scrutiny his life, career, and music has deserved for a few years now. But it’s coming in a very unusual, and frankly, misguided manner.
#1 song in all of music at the moment is from a country artist. Even more remarkably, it’s from a woman in country. Even more inexplicable, it’s fair to characterize the song as traditional country.
Conveying a timeless sentiment in a new way is what Kenny Whitmire accomplishes with his new song ” I Gave Her The Moon,” and does so while evoking a chilling effect in how similar he sounds to Keith Whitley.
Just like so much of the packaging and portioning in the American diet, you got twice as much as you needed from the Super Bowl halftime, but only half of the amount of the recommended daily nutrients.
It’s one of the most difficult and scrutinized performances any singer can commit to. But if you turn in a memorable rendition, it could be a defining moment in your career. It’s the National Anthem.
As folks quibble back and forth about what mild superstar should play the Super Bowl Halftime Show, so many great artists, songs, and albums are out there awaiting your discovery that are way more enriching.
We don’t seem to be able to agree on much these days in these United States. But anyone who’s heard 49 Winchester tends to agree these Virginia boys are one of the best things going in music.
