Album Review – Muchacho Sanchez – “When I Get This Way”
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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.
Tyler Childers, I’m With Her, Mavis Staples Win Big in Early Roots Grammys
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Tyler Childers is now a Grammy winner. So is Zach Top. Mavis Staples and I’m With Her also have two more Grammy Awards apiece. Chris Stapleton has another one for his massive trophy collection.
Billy Strings Gets Big Win at 2026 Grammy Awards
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It’s hard to best Billy Strings. And though the bluegrass field is extremely solid and chock full of talent—especially this year’s list of nominees—it was Billy who came out on top at the 2026 Grammys.
Zach Top Wins Grammy’s New Best Traditional Country Album
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Zach Top’s popularity probably helped play a role in the Grammys deciding to make a new Best Traditional Country Album category for 2026. All the more fitting that Zach would walk away with the trophy.
Johnny Mullenax Makes Huge Impression at Mile 0 Fest
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Take the twang and taste of country, the speed of bluegrass, the blazing improvisation of jazz, and you have something that’s utterly transcendental, while still feeling grounded in the roots.
Song Review – Hardy, Tim McGraw, Eric Church, Morgan Wallen – “McArthur”
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A unique collaboration that gets your attention, “McArthrur” matches up slightly strange bedfellows to tell an epic story across generations, while remaining starkly relevant to a contemporary audience.
Album Review – Emily Scott Robinson’s “Appalachia”
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What kind of towering power is music capable of? To bask in the audience of Emily Scott Robinson’s voice and songs, you feel like anything is possible through the marriage of words and melody.
Valley Sessions Offers Affordable Videos to Artists and Events
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“We’re investing in the musicians to keep sharing their music, to keep sharing their poetry for the people they play for, and then those people are going to look them up, and then those people are going to find others, and our work.”
DelFest Reveals STACKED 2026 Lineup
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Get ready to get your Del on. Originally founded in 2008 by bluegrass legend Del McCoury, the festival has emerged in recent years as one of the premier festivals in bluegrass and roots music.
Why Isn’t Country History Taught During Black History Month?
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If you grew up in America, you knew the drill every February in public school. But unless your teachers were willing to buck the published material on Black history, country music was never mentioned.
Cross Canadian Ragweed, Mile 0 Fest Take Over Key West
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As much of the rest of the United States was stuck fast in an ice storm, Key West, FL was set ablaze as Mile 0 Fest returned to their old tradition of opening the festival with a free street party.
Alex Pretti, Mark Capps, and the Extrajudicial Killings of Americans
The concern many Americans now hold is when these extrajudicial killings could come for members of their community, or someone they know. But the truth is for country music and Nashville, it already did.
Album Review – Kashus Culpepper’s “Act 1”
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They call him Kashus, and he’s the latest to tap into the inviting and lucrative sound that infuses influences of vintage soul and country together, making something that’s distinctly Southern and soulful.