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Just ahead of her self-titled 10th LP out in March, Patty Griffin will launch a headlining tour on February 28th in Los Angeles. The trek, which is scheduled to run through April 20th, visits venues in New Orleans, Nashville, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Toronto, Ontario, among others. Tickets for most …

Sarah Potenza first caught our ears in 2015 as a contestant on season eight of The Voice, eventually releasing her debut album, 2016’s Monster, which cemented her as one of the more exciting new voices in soul and blues music. Today, Potenza has announced plans to release a follow-up to …

Dolly Parton‘s classic “Jolene” gets a colorful, dancefloor-ready update in a new promotional video for the new film Dumplin’, which was released on December 7th. Parton appears only as a statue in the beginning of the clip, but a group of performers from RuPaul’s Drag Race make up for the …

Kid Rock has been removed from his duties as Grand Marshal of Nashville’s 2018 Christmas Parade, following backlash over comments he made during a television appearance on Friday morning. Replacing him in the honorary position is James Shaw Jr., better known as the Waffle House hero for his effort to …

Steve Cropper, the guitarist for Booker T. and the MGs and songwriter of such soul staples as “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour,” was honored with the BMI Icon Award at Tuesday night’s BMI Awards in Nashville, a loose Golden Globes-type party that finds …

A leading light in L.A.’s country community for years, Sam Morrow leapt onto the national stage with this year’s Concrete and Mud, cracking the Top 10 of the Americana charts along the way. Full of gruff stomp and funky, phased Telecasters, that album forms the bedrock of his conversation with …

Dolly Parton‘s newly released “Girl in the Movies,” a song from the forthcoming soundtrack of the Netflix film Dumplin’, is sung from the perspective of the film’s title character. But its lyrics are just as applicable to Parton’s own rags-to-riches fairytale of a life, from a one-room cabin in the …

Mellow-voiced singer and prolific songwriter Freddie Hart, whose self-penned single “Easy Loving” was one of the biggest crossover hits of the early Seventies, died Saturday in Burbank, California. He was 91. In addition to winning the ACM award for Song of the Year in 1971, “Easy Loving” was a Top …

On a pleasantly warm late-September afternoon in Nashville, Carlene Carter leads an informal tour of the charming 100-year-old Queen Anne-style home she shares with her husband, actor Joe Breen. New to the neighborhood since leaving their Santa Ynez, California, home after a decade, it hasn’t taken the couple long to …

Lauren Alaina, Deana Carter and Ashley McBryde shared the stage during last month’s ACM Honors ceremony, honoring one of the evening’s awardees — songwriter Matraca Berg — with a medley of her own hits. A multiple chart-topper who co-wrote her first Number One song, T.G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks’ early-Eighties …