As folks quibble back and forth about what mild superstar should play the Super Bowl Halftime Show, so many great artists, songs, and albums are out there awaiting your discovery that are way more enriching.
We don’t seem to be able to agree on much these days in these United States. But anyone who’s heard 49 Winchester tends to agree these Virginia boys are one of the best things going in music.
It struck me that the vast majority of people were discussing an album and an artist they had heard little to no music from. The first and foremost rule of music criticism is that you have to listen to the material.
Like so many true country fans, keeping the memory of all the old Outlaw country greats alive is serious business for Doug Armento. It’s about paying their legacy forward in original songs the take inspiration from their music.
Sierra Ferrell deserves all the flowers. And you deserve to see her perform live, especially if you need your spirits uplifted about the beauty of life and the goodness of mankind.
Brothers Chandler and Miles just released their debut album ‘Heartbreak & Honky-Tonk’ that puffs its chest out and demands more than a passing sniff from distinguishing country fans with traditional tastes.
The sum total of country’s participation in the 3 1/2 hour show was the 4 minute, 44 second performance. While voting and Grammy membership is not entirely in the Grammy’s control, the performances are.
Mile 0 Fest is not for the passive music listener. It’s for those who put music first, who pursue those lifelong memories through musical moments that you’re only able to capture when you go seeking them out.
This year, the Super Bowl will have two halftime performances, which in truth means that it will have no true halftime performance because neither will command the universal audience it needs to bring people together.
Country music has lost a legendary musician, singer and songwriter this week. The great Don Adams, known as one of George Jones’s “Jones Boys” and a longtime member of Johnny Paycheck’s band passed away.
Only appropriate that as the recently svelte Jelly Roll sauntered up to the stage to deliver his shake shack snake oil sermon, you heard Jelly Roll singing via the walk-up music, “I ain’t nothin’ but a liar.”
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is Folk Alliance? Well, it’s part festival, part industry conference, part gathering of the tribes. Most importantly though, it’s about the most ground level assemblage of music talent each year.