Beyoncé’s recently concluded “Cowboy Carter Tour” was recently declared the “Biggest Country Tour in Billboard Boxscore History.” But of course, there is an important list of caveats to this record-breaking feat.
When the history books regard this era when the independent became the mainstream in country music, Tyler Childers will play perhaps the most important, and most pivotal role in that story.
It’s even worse when country music’s institutions recognize artists for being country when these artists don’t even recognize being country themselves, and don’t even care for the recognition.
Sometimes life unfolds like a country song, and it’s too hard to believe. The sordid tale of the widow of George Jones and her relationship with convicted criminal Kirk West is one of those stories.
Once again the public is being asked to weigh the character of Zach Bryan after an online imbroglio. And once again, the scenario feels like a big nothing burger, blown out of proportion.
It wasn’t just the music that intrigued us about these two men. It was the men themselves, and how they walked through the darkness of life, and turned it into light through music.
Zach Bryan has announced the release date for his upcoming album called With Heaven On Top, and some are wondering why they’re having to wait until 2026 to hear it.
Jamey Johnson reveals just how much new music he has saved up, including a song about him written by another big artist, his feelings on today’s country, as well as his affinity for Zach Top.
If you’re a fan of great music, you’ve probably been perpetually frustrated how it seems like the best songs, and the best songwriters of our time slide scandalously under-the-radar.
The punishment certainly doesn’t follow the tenets of Hammurabi’s Code. But in this instance, it might have been the most prudent, and legally sound course of action.
When you think of Jimmy Swaggart, you might not think of music, or country music specifically. But there is a reason that in 1982 Newsweek dubbed Swaggart the “King of Honky Tonk Heaven.”
The interview resulted in some great revelations about Charley Crockett, answered some major criticisms that comes up regularly about him, and generally speaking, portrayed Charley as a knowledgeable guy.
Fundamentally, is Gavin Adcock correct when he says Beyoncé’s album ‘Cowboy Carter’ isn’t country?Absolutely he is.Is Gavin Adcock the guy we want carrying water for country music? Absolutely not.
With lead guitar player Luke Black and mandolin player Drury Anderson graduating from the Berklee College of Music in May, this summer has become the moment for Mountain Grass Unit to take the full-time plunge.
To the unknowing mind, The Kentucky Headhunters name itself might conjure up a slightly negative stereotype of some dangerous backwoods fugitives who would behead outsiders. However, the reality is the complete opposite.
There’s a new television/competition series coming this fall to CBS, and it has some really cool, and really uncool folks involved in the production, as well as some exciting names participating in the competition itself.
With the way country music so summarily casts many of its legends to the side, it can be easy to forget about the legacy of someone like Ronnie McDowell, even if you’d never forget his hit songs.
Now we get yet another new version of The Band Perry, and even more bleached hair in the form of some new guy who looks like Uncle Joey from the ’90s version of Full House.
It’s almost like the entire music industry has memory holed Oliver Anthony. It was just two short years ago that he took a video of him hollering out in the woods all the way to #1 in all of music.
The entirety of the music world mourns whenever a titan at the level of original Beach Boys member and musical mastermind Brian Wilson makes their exit from the mortal coil, leaving behind a planet that feels a bit more cold.
Megyn Kelly. Babe. Take the win. What are you doing acting like an aggrieved party here? Beyoncé’s calling you out on the big video boards of her current world tour? Well congratulations then. It’s free promotion.
Molly Tuttle will no longer be a bluegrass performer, at least not for this next season of her career. Her new album called “So Long Little Miss Sunshine” is being sold as a departure from her bluegrass past.
In the teleprompter copy that Megan Moroney read, she also said “…and this award went to The Carter Family, who basically invented country music.” This inspired a side-eyed look from Shaboozey.
It’s not necessarily the music of Gavin Adcock that has become so predictable that it veers into the realm of cliché. It’s his behavioral pattern that we have seen play out in music ad nauseum.