Just when you though you were getting caught up from a packed summer of strong album releases, here comes another day full of both highly-anticipated titles, and a ton of releases by volume where you need a road map.
His resume and media credentials were vast. He covered space shuttle launches and civil rights matters. But in the end, country music was Jimmy Carter’s passion.
When Ricky Van Shelton stepped into the studio to record “Life Turned Her That Way” 40 years ago today (October 14th, 1986), the song had already been covered by scores of performers previously. But Ricky made it a #1.
“Swampwater” by Paige Plaisance is a total vibe, taking you to a time and place that is distinct and faraway from the cookie cutter America most of us find ourselves immersed in. It’s swampy, groovy, country, and cool.
After David Allan Coe’s passing on April 29th, 2026 at the age of 86, many Coe fans are wondering what his prospects are for getting into the Hall of Fame, either in the near future, or ever? This is a very fair question to ask.
Released on October 2nd by Drake on a deluxe edition of his latest record called “Habibti (FOMO),” the song called “Solar Eclipse” is basically a reworking of “Choosin’ Texas,” just with different lyrics, and a totally different vibe.
What strangely went under-reported is that on Thursday (10-8), Musgraves stopped into Austin’s famed honky-tonk The White Horse to play a surprise intimate show for the two-stepping crowd, reprising a bunch of old school country covers.
John Prine was born October 10, 1946. This year he would have turned 80 years old, and the Prine Family and Hello in There Foundation decided to do something special: bring the celebration back to John’s original home in Chicago.
It’s no longer good enough just to be “country.” In fact, many of the ’90s country knockoff singles are getting rejected for this playlist these days. Country is in a more country era for sure. But the quality of songs is also in a resurgence.
The spirit of songwriting legend Todd Snider was in the room for sure when the latest installment of The Hook convened on October 4th at Sagebrush in Austin. Special guest for the episode was songwriter HalleyAnna Finlay.
Ella Langley has cancelled her show set for Friday, October 9th at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma after a caller threatened “great harm to the people at this event in the way of shots fired and bombs.”
Loretta Lynn’s Grammy-winning landmark album ‘Van Lear Rose’ produced by Jack White will finally be reissued after having spent over half a decade offline. Originally released in 2004, it’s considered one of Loretta’s best records.
Margo Cilker’s ‘Little White Cross’ is a beautiful collection of Western stories backed by country and Americana music that allows you to explore a host of strong emotional experiences imbued with meaningful connections.
The man, the myth, the weirdo in the best of ways, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who could equal or imitate what Roger Miller did during his illustrious and ultimately Country Music Hall of Fame career.
Speaking to the extra hustle and Kaitlin’s creative streak, she’s revealing the track list for “Hello, Honky Tonk” by enlisting some of the coolest honky tonks and country venues around to announce the individual tracks.
Like so much that ‘Rolling Stone’ publishes these days, this headline, and this statement is categorically and provably false. In fact, it’s so false, the exact opposite is the case, and it’s shocking in its either sheer ignorance, or its attempt to gaslight.
There aren’t a lot of reasons the release a “Greatest Hits” album these days in the age of streaming. So as the Randy Rogers Band reaches 25 years of playing and recording songs, they’ve cooked up a somewhat novel concept.
It was only a few short years ago where the discussion around the steel guitar was whether the instrument that has been so instrumental to the appeal of country music would survive into the next decade.
This album is fine. It’s meant to be fun. It’s meant to be fluff. And similar to the Sturgill Simpson/Johnny Blue Skies “disco” album from earlier in the year, if you take this business too seriously, you run the risk of the joke being on you.
Bass player and original member of the 3-time Academy of Country Music-nominated Flatland Cavalry is no longer with the band according to numerous sources. Jonathan Saenz does not appear in the recent promotional photos.
Can you turn a stage and a microphone over to mostly aspiring songwriters, and get better results than when you turn on your average corporate radio station, or listen to a “hot country” playlist? If The Hook is any indication…
“She can bring folk and country together, and marry them into sentiments about love and love lost the resonate universally with all fans of music. This is what she does to favorable results on ‘Wayfaring Woman.'”
Billy Strings has addressed incidents of alleged groping and sexual assault at this concerts after numerous social media posts from fans addressing the behavior went viral, and specifically about a Billy Strings superfan named James Smiley.
Just to close the chapter on Zach Top’s once beloved and high-profile acoustic guitar player and harmony singer Cheyenne Dalton Meyer, she has officially found a new gig. She was let go from Zach’s band in March.
