Music Country

Gillian Welch has lined up a handful of new shows for her 2018 “An Evening With Gillian Welch Tour,” getting the trek started with a trip through the Carolinas and Georgia in April. The tour, consisting of eight new shows – two of which are festival appearances – launches April …

Throughout his 50 years as a working musician, guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has been one of acoustic music’s premier performers, integrating his unique fingerpicking technique into a wide variety of jazz, pop and country releases. To pursue his new all-star duets album Accomplice One, all Emmanuel needed was a little encouragement …

Country newcomer Jillian Jacqueline made her late-night TV debut on Monday’s edition of Late Night With Seth Meyers, showing off her vintage style and a blistering, cut-to-the-chase view on love with her latest single “Reasons.” Decked out in a striped, crop-top sweater and a pair of flowing bell bottoms, the …

Since coming out swinging with her single “Fight Like a Girl” in 2016, eyes have been on country upstart Kalie Shorr, with all signs pointing to a big year for the young Nashville-based singer-songwriter. Just one week into 2018, Shorr has shared official release details for her new EP Awake. …

“Buy Me a Boat” and “Fix a Drink” hitmaker Chris Janson delivered a powerful, timely message on the proper way to approach consent and respect for women on NBC’s Megyn Kelly Today Friday morning, performing his deceptively titled new single “Drunk Girl.” Released as an avalanche of sexual misconduct scandals …

Thomas Rhett‘s Life Changes LP is full of stories both heartwarming and heartbreaking, but few are as bittersweet as the one told in “Marry Me.” With a lyrical hook that goes “Yeah, she wanna get married / But she don’t wanna marry me,” it’s the kind of song that pairs …

Midland were in a festive mood on Monday night when they stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers. The holidays no doubt played a part, but a lot of it had to do with the band’s song choice, as they performed a feel-good version of “Make a Little” from their …

“I know I don’t have to tell you guys it’s been a rough couple of months for us,” singer Jason Aldean told the crowd at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Sunday night. Aldean was addressing the sold-out arena during his set at Country Rising, an all-star benefit concert with proceeds going to …

Sturgill Simpson was at the CMA Awards, but he didn’t actually attend, per se. Instead, he went rogue outside Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, soliciting questions from fans and busking for donations to the ACLU via Facebook Live. The artist was flanked by an open guitar case, his Grammy award for Best …

Back in the mid-Nineties, David Lee Murphy was one of the country music’s heavy hitters, knocking Garth Brooks from the top of the charts with his career-making single “Dust on the Bottle” and landing more than a half-dozen Top 40 hits during the decade’s final years. Then, as quickly as …