More than a year after releasing Redemption & Ruin, Americana trio the Devil Makes Three continue to tour heavily behind the new album, with a cross-country tour lined up for early 2018. The 23-date run kicks off in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 10th. From there, the band cuts a wide …
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“Welcome to the end of the journey,” Garth Brooks told reporters at a 30-minute press conference prior to the first of seven shows in Nashville, where his three-year World Tour is concluding. On Saturday afternoon, Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood, on the eve of their 12th wedding anniversary, spoke emotionally …
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A decade before she turned the 1981 single “Bette Davis Eyes” into a Grammy-winning phenomenon, Kim Carnes and her husband, Dave Ellingson, were living in Los Angeles and writing songs for music publisher and producer Jimmy Bowen at the same company that would launch the Eagles’ Glenn Frey and Don …
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A musical cross-country journey in the wake of the September 11th attacks of 2001 is at the heart of a new, award-winning film called American Folk. Starring Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth as two folk-playing musicians who meet after their plane is grounded in California, the film was shot in …
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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill offered support for “common sense” gun control measures in a new interview with Billboard. “Look, I’m a bird hunter – I love to wing-shoot,” McGraw said. “However, there is some common sense that’s necessary when it comes to gun control. They want to make it …
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“I don’t take any type of medication,” declares 63-year-old soul singer Robert Finley at the start of his new video for “Get It While You Can.” “They wanted me to take an aspirin a day and I said, ‘Why not just take a shot of brandy? The doctor says, ‘Yeah, …
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Walking the Floor celebrates its 100th episode this week with a nostalgic, story-packed interview with Ray Benson. The frontman of Asleep at the Wheel since 1969, Benson has spent nearly 50 years onstage, in the writing room and in the studio, rubbing shoulders with icons like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson …
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On June 30th, 2013, 19 firefighters from the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed by a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona. Next month, the new film Only the Brave will recreate that tragic event, and playing a central part in the film will be a new song from Dierks Bentley, “Hold the …
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Fresh off a pair of room-silencing performances at last week’s Americana Honors and Awards ceremony, Jason Isbell and Emerging Artist of the Year winner Amanda Shires, this time with the 400 Unit in tow, headed west to play Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night. Performing “If We Were Vampires,” Isbell …
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With his third LP Current Mood out one week ago today, Dustin Lynch‘s mood is a pretty good one. An album full of booty call jams, party songs, and danceable beats, the Tennessee singer had a grin fixed to his face the whole way through a stop at Jimmy Kimmel …
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