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The Texas songwriter and his tight-AF band also played fan favorite “Sexy After Dark” After a months-long tour that found him playing venues from Brooklyn to Boston with Vandoliers, slaying crowds aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise, and returning to the Grand Ole Opry stage, Joshua Ray Walker made his CBS Saturday Morning debut this weekend.

Bailey Zimmerman was busy with a union job and tricking out pickup trucks in his spare time just three years ago. In less than one pandemic, the Louisville, Illinois, native is well on his way to becoming the biggest new country artist this side of Morgan Wallen, thanks to a combination of astounding streaming numbers

“I love to lift up other women in the genre when I see somebody putting out great art,” Price says Margo Price has reinterpreted her Strays track “Change of Heart,” which originally had sort of a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers gone country vibe, as a sparsely adorned acoustic song. The song now has a

Texas songwriting legend will release Western Chill as a box set with graphic novel, DVD, and songbook Robert Earl Keen officially retired from touring in late 2022, but he’s still busy creating music. The Texas singer-songwriter will release his new album Western Chill via his own Scriptorium Rex label on April 14, with a whole

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour rides again in 2023. And this time, it’s a dual celebration: not only of music that colors outside the lines, but of its headliner’s 90th birthday. Nelson

The undeterred Southern rockers played “Tuesday’s Gone” for Rossington at a Florida concert, a week after its last original member died at 71 If you thought the death of Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s sole surviving original member, last Sunday would bring the Southern rock band’s 52-year career to a close, you only had to be

Just a few days after Morgan Wallen released his third studio album, One Thing A Time, it has been breaking records as it becomes the country album with the largest streaming week ever. So, it’s no longer a surprise that the modern country star is dominating the top 40 country songs for March 2023. It’s absolutely

Fantastic Cat, the mostly anonymous Americana supergroup, deliver an exquisite version of Zevon’s goodbye ballad 20 years after the songwriter’s death There’s been a well-deserved resurgence in Warren Zevon’s music of late, 20 years after the songwriter’s death. Billy Joel raved about his work to the L.A. Times in a recent interview, Shooter Jennings devoted

Zach Bryan, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers, and Hozier continue their reign in our Top Americana/Folk Albums for March 2023.  Bryan’s American Heartbreak, his long-awaited first major-label album, continues to make the hearts of many country fans flutter with its whopping thirty-four tracks of great old Americana-style country-based music. It’s absolutely a solid Americana album full of

The red-hot songwriter anchors Night 2 of the Franklin, Tennessee, fest, which also features Ashley McBryde, Margo Price, the Black Crowes, and Lumineers For fans who got shut out buying tickets to Zach Bryan’s in-demand Burn, Burn, Burn Tour, they now have the chance to catch him headlining one of the South’s most chill festivals.

The top bluegrass albums for March 2023 are still dominated by Billy Strings. He’s the genre’s reigning rock star whose drawing power has expanded exponentially through his albums Me / And / Dad and Renewal.  You will know why he’s on the rise the moment you hear his thing – especially his unhinged flat-picking guitar playing. Top 10

Kaitlin Butts wasn’t specifically thinking about the political environment in her adopted home of Tennessee when she shot the video for “What Else Can She Do,” but her timing for releasing it could not have been more perfect. Filmed last summer at the Hamburger Inn in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the clip features the Tulsa native Butts

The Cadillac Three are known for hard-hitting Southern rock and country-funk — “country fuzz,” the trio calls it — but members Jaren Johnston and Neil Mason are looking outside of that box for their new record label. On Thursday, Johnston and Mason announced War Buddha Records, a partnership with Warner Records, and their first signed

Nominations for the 2023 CMT Music Awards were announced Wednesday morning and Lainey Wilson wound up with the most of her contemporaries. The “Heart Like a Truck” singer picked up four nods for the fan-voted event, which is set to air live from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on April 2. Wilson’s nominations were

As the only daughter of music icon Elvis Presley, people have always been curious about Lisa Marie Presley net worth – especially since she’s the sole heir to her father’s estate following the death of her grandparents. Sadly, Lisa Marie was confirmed dead on January 12 (Thursday) after a brief hospitalization. The singer-songwriter was found

CMA Fest is planning to pull out all the stops for its 50th anniversary celebration this June. The long-running country-music event returns to Nashville June 8-11, with performances at Nissan Stadium from artists including Eric Church, Hardy, and Miranda Lambert highlighting the weekend. A daily lineup is available online for the Nissan Stadium shows, which

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Sam Hunt will be on the road throughout the dog days of summer this year. On Monday, the “Body Like a Back Road” singer announced dates for his Summer on the Outskirts Tour,

In 2013, country icon Willie Nelson gifted the world with his rendition of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen The Rain.” The song was released as a duet with his daughter Paula Nelson. It was part of the album To All the Girls.  The song consists of duets recorded by Nelson with female singers, including prominent country

Gary Rossington, a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd whose ethereal slide guitar helped make the Southern rock band’s song “Free Bird” an indelible anthem, died Sunday at the age of 71. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist,

Singer-songwriter Peter One left his home in Côte D’Ivoire in 1995 amid rising political unrest in the West African country that eventually boiled over into two civil wars in the 2000s. His life in the United States began in New York and then Delaware, before landing in Nashville, where he now lives. Along the way,