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In advance of the release of her upcoming studio album, Miranda Lambert has announced a number of tour dates for her 2020 Wildcard Tour with opening acts Lanco and Cody Johnson. Randy Rogers Band and Parker McCollum will also open on select dates. The 27-date North American tour includes a …

“There’s an angel missing in heaven and his name is Allen Reynolds,” Garth Brooks told author Patsi Bale Cox in 1990. In the early Nineties, Brooks, with Reynolds as his producer, was on one of the hottest streaks in country-music history, topping the charts, earning dozens of industry honors, and …

Update [8/2]: On Friday, the Highwomen released their full version of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” a song they recorded for the soundtrack to the upcoming film The Kitchen. After making their official introduction last week with the track “Redesigning Women,” the Highwomen have now put their spin on a four-part …

In 1976, NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw and the Pittsburgh Steelers earned their second consecutive Super Bowl trophy. Yet while his football career would eventually ensure him a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Bradshaw was also moonlighting in another profession, that of country singer. Just two weeks after …

In December 2017, Willie Jones was in a recording studio in Los Angeles, freestyling about his family. Jones had just spent his holidays at home in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, and at a family reunion in Tulsa and had been touched by the occasions — by how much his cousins …

Kelsey Waldon, the singer-songwriter from Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky, first caught the ear of John Prine with her sharp songwriting and lilting voice. On Tuesday night at the Grand Ole Opry, the seminal songwriter announced that Waldon would be recording her next album for Prine’s Oh Boy Records. The addition of …

After bootlegging a cache of vinyl and airdropping it to fans in the video for “Desperate Man,” Eric Church pays for his crime in the clip for his latest single “Some of It.” Opening with mugshots of his band, the video quickly establishes that the Chief is behind bars, locked …

When Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real opened for the Who in Nashville earlier this month, the singer-guitarist delivered an especially fiery reading of the title track of his band’s upcoming album, Turn Off the News (Build a Garden). “All these other thoughts have me confused/I don’t need to …

Aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise in January, Jesse Dayton proved to be one of the most popular draws, attracting a boisterous crowd at every stage he played. Credit his charismatic stage presence and a hard-to-pin-down mix of old-school country, rock and punk. Dayton nods to all of those styles on …

Texas-based Americana power couple Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis will usher in the summer with the release of Beautiful Lie, their fourth album as a duo. Out June 21st on Robison’s the Next Waltz label, it’s the pair’s follow-up to the 2014 collaboration Our Year. The album’s first single “Nobody’s …