In one song after another, and in one verse after another, Jesse Welles stuns with his cutting criticism interwoven with sarcasm addressing today’s current events. Welles loads up and unleashes.
This is a quieter and more melancholy album, perhaps less country than previous works, and captures a maturing young man whose thoughts and problems have moved on from young adult concerns to bigger and more daunting questions.
Willie Watson was one of the most revered members of Old Crow Medicine Show for around 13 years, including during the band’s big O.C.M.S. / “Wagon Wheel” moment in 2004. But he left in 2011 to become a folk singer.
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Once again showcasing her superior songwriting skills matched with the unparalleled power and control of her voice, ‘Here I Am’ evokes goosepumps, and at times stuns with the compelling and involved nature of the writing.
We’d be lying if we didn’t say it’s been a tense couple weeks of nail biting and refreshing news feeds for many fans of Willie Nelson and country music. The 91-year-old was forced to cancel multiple shows.
Premier Texas, Red Dirt, and Americana festival Mile 0 Fest in Key West, FL has announced its initial 2025 lineup, and it finds the return of many favored performers for the eighth year of the festival, as well as some new names
Heading into the the 4th of July weekend, a disturbing story published in The Hollywood Reporter finds the Black country soul duo The War & Treaty accusing the Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds Music Festival in Austin of racism.
For the nonprofit and mostly volunteer-driven SFF Presents, the encroachment and dominance of musical juggernaut Live Nation is not just a hypothetical. The organization is on the front lines of supporting music on a local level.
Healing Appalachia isn’t just a 3-day concert with a killer lineup, it is a concert for a cause. It’ll be holding its 2024 festivities once again at the State Fair of West Virginia grounds in Lewisburg on September 19-21.
Even before he recently announced a diagnosis with what we all hope is a treatable form of Cancer, anyone who asked me to name the best singer of this generation would receive the answer “Raul Malo” back without hesitation.
In 2024, the Jackalope Jamboree (June 27-29) still had some of the topmost names in independent country like Charley Crockett, Kaitlin Butts, and Silverada. It had legends of Red Dirt like Jason Boland, and The Randy Rogers Band.
Uninterested in taking a conventional approach to making an album, rising country star Kaitlin Butts finds inspiration in the original Rodgers and Hammerstein stage production about her native state of Oklahoma.
If you want to get Keith Urban on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, wait until a year after Strait gets his or something. The organizers of this make it seem like Strait and Urban are equals. It just sort of cheapens the whole thing.
These days we’re used to songwriting by committee, especially from most mainstream major label country stars. But even in Alan Jackson’s most productive era, an artist writing most of their own songs like Alan was rare.
Seven minutes after their new self-titled album hit streaming services at midnight Eastern, 9:00 p.m. Pacific, the greatest live country band in the world took the stage at the Jackalope Jamboree in Pendleton, Oregon.
Mike and the Moonpies? Silverada? The only names you really need to know are Mike Harmeier, Omar Oyoque, Catlin Rutherford, Zachary Moulton, and Taylor Englert. If they’re involved, it’s probably tits.
As a musician, songwriter, iconoclast, poet, writer, politician, and cigar connoisseur, Kinky Friedman couldn’t help but pursue his passions no matter where they took him, and to stir the good kind of trouble whenever he got there.
Ladies and gentlemen, by the power vested in me by the founding documents of Saving Country Music, I hereby decree that Friday, June 28th, 2024 is an official country music holiday, with all the rights and privileges thereof.
It’s not just that the company has laid off all its journalists and editors. It’s that the work of scores of writers over many years—tens of thousands of articles in total—are now gone, and unlikely to return.
It’s not just some of the staggering one-liners McKeon delivers. It’s how he embeds them within stories, settings, and characters that really sell those lines as prophetic, and make you heed them, not just hear them.
Noam Pikelny—the banjo maestro and member of both The Punch Brothers and Mighty Polar—he said it best in his always humorous statements from the stage. “Telluride is like ‘Lord of the Flies’ meets the Grand Ole Opry.”
At a show on June 21st at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh, NC, Ryan Adams called out Jason Isbell in an impromptu song possibly called “Don’t Forget The Laundry List.”
Molly Tuttle and her magnificent band Golden Highway played the penultimate set at the 51st Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, leaving it all out on the stage, and in the case of Molly Tuttle, bearing more than just her soul.
