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Nearly 50 years on from its original release, Ryan Kinder reimagines Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic antiwar anthem “Fortunate Son” as a brooding ballad in this YouTube Nashville Sessions video. The Alabama native gives the song nothing short of a reinvention, which at this point may be necessary to avoid mere …

“Everyone calls Bob Dylan a poet, but he doesn’t write poetry,” says soul singer Bettye LaVette, who tackles the Dylan songbook on her upcoming album Things Have Changed. “He doesn’t really write songs. He writes prose.” Produced by drummer Steve Jordan, Things Have Changed (out March 30th) brings soul, melody …

Miranda Lambert‘s new Livin’ Like Hippies Tour kicks off a week from today on January 18th, but already the Grammy winner is already making plans for summer. On Thursday, Lambert announced that she’d be joining Little Big Town for the co-headlining Bandwagon Tour this summer. The 13-date tour takes place …

Last year, Texas-based roots singer Charley Crockett played more than 170 shows. With his holiday break, he hit the road again, this time with his girlfriend to shoot a new music video for his version of “Jamestown Ferry,” released last September on his covers collection Lil G.L.’s Honky Tonk Jubilee. …

2017 has seen Miranda Lambert share the mic with a number of fellow country stars, from Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers to Little Big Town. Now she can add pop-punk icons Green Day to her list of collaborators, thanks to “Ordinary World,” a song that appears on the band’s new …

The closeness within the country music community and the ties that lie between the artists, even as they compete for trophies and radio spins, was the theme of Wednesday’s CMA Awards. But there’s another tightknit cadre of musicians that exists, and performs, east of the Cumberland River – a scene …

Singer-songwriter Erin Enderlin’s gift for vivid storytelling, which comes as much from the country tradition of the Louvin Brothers as it does from the Southern novels of William Faulkner, has helped the Conway, Arkansas, native weave memorable tales for such artists as Lee Ann Womack (“Last Call”), Luke Bryan (“You …

In 1971, John Denver, a former member of the folk-singing Chad Mitchell Trio, scored a Number Two pop hit with the pastoral “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” At the same time, the song was a minor country-chart entry, topping out at Number 50. Three years later, Denver would be the …

Jason Aldean, who was onstage in Las Vegas when a gunman opened fire on his audience, has canceled his next three concerts “out of respect for the victims, their families and our fans,” he said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Aldean was set to perform three shows this weekend in …

Hours after Josh Abbott Band left the main stage at Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Sunday night, the unthinkable happened – instead of enjoying the performances from other friends and peers, the members of the Texas-based collective and their crew were running for their lives or ducking for …