The music is still up on streaming services as of this post, though it will likely be taken down soon. But in many respects, the damage is already done. This is just a harbinger of things to come.
Kris Kristofferson had been named a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He’d also been an officer in the US Army. But he wanted to be a songwriter, so he had to start somewhere.
It was two decades ago this winter that the overlords of Gothic Country—Madison, Wisconsin’s Those Poor Bastards—released their debut album, Songs of Desperation, and launched the Gothic country subgenre.
It’s all happening for Kaitlin Butts, and it couldn’t be happening to a more deserving artist. This puts Kaitlin Butts on the same label as Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift as she readies an new EP.
o should we be happy for Flatland Cavalry receiving this opportunity to open a massive show in a stadium for Morgan Wallen? Or should we be disappointed they accepted it?
On the new album “Indian Country,” the music lives up to the name. Country is exactly what you get from Blaine Bailey, and in heavy doses, only the stories are told from the Native American perspective.
Few if anyone is pointing out one of the most obvious things about it: This new venue called “The Truth” is Live Nation’s rival to the Mother Church of Country Music, The Ryman Auditorium.
You crave hearing a new song from Dan + Shay like you crave hearing Christmas music before Halloween. The emasculated tones, the aggressive use of AutoTune, the entirely soul-bereft delivery…
There are few venues as unique as the Dosey Doe in The Woodlands, Texas, north of Houston. There’s even fewer in Texas that have played such an important role in fostering the careers of country music performers.
While in the back of the patrol car headed to the pokey, Morgan Wallen can be heard saying to the officers, “Please do not play Chris Young,” and later, “Oh hell no, he’s terrible.”
Jami Grooms returned to the second installment of The Hook on September 29th, again with high expectations, and once again surpassed them with his song “Paid For It.”
The album explores avenues in your brain uncommonly traversed, unlocks emotions rarely tapped, and confers a level of perspective that is shades more gratifying than just another generic honky tonk song.
For the second episode, instead of the artists all performing once, they were split into two pairs to perform at two separate shows, with each contestant singing both a cover song, and an original.
According to the lawsuit, Rodgers and others threw full, unopened cans of Miller Lite beer from the stage into the crowded audience. One struck Samantha Haws “violently and without warning in the head.”
We’ve been wondering for a while now when a proper album from Kashus Culpepper would hit shelves as opposed to just a trickle of singles. That will finally happen on January 23rd, 2026.
As the eventual title track to George’s February 1976 album, “The Battle” came out in the aftermath of George’s divorce from Tammy Wynette, and at a time when his career was in a commercial slide.
Soliciting Western Swing legend Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel as producer, Joshua Hedley pens a love letter to Western Swing, and sings its virtues. It might be the 2025 instrumental album to beat.
Once again, disgraced country publicist Kirk Webster is using proxies to attempt to promote a big concert. He’s been previously accused by over 20 individuals of rape, sexual harassment, and other serious charges.
Artists love to tell you how an album is “their most personal yet.” With Vince Gill’s “50 Years From Home: I Gave You Everything I Had,” that well-worn talking point might actually be warranted.
On Sunday (8-19), the opening episode of the new CBS reality TV series “The Road” premiered, giving some very worthy talent network television face time in a way that can only be good. But the show has a flaw.
Country music is constantly slotted as second-class when it comes to the greater American culture, even when it’s more popular than ever like it is now, and more popular than any other genre.
Mark Chesnutt was rushed to the hospital late last week right before he was set to open a show for country group Alabama on October 16th in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is currently recovering at home.
The legendary frontman for Leftover Salmon, Vince Herman, showed up to start ‘The Hook’ off, and then stuck around the whole show to add his songwriting insight and signature humor to the program.
For next year’s festivities June 6th and 7th, 2026, Railbird is once again mining talent from other genres for some of their headliners. But this time it’s from the roots side of indie rock.
