When Billy Bob’s Texas, the 40-year-old Fort Worth honky-tonk mecca, announced earlier this week that it was hosting a concert by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and enforcing Isbell’s Covid vaccination policy for entry after a different Fort Worth venue wouldn’t, the venue’s general manager says he spent the …
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The 2020 CMA Awards were held earlier this week, pandemic be damned, with several tributes to country legends that were lost this year, including a Charlie Daniels medley, renditions of Joe Diffie and Kenny Rogers songs, and a Mac Davis’ “In the Ghetto.” Notably absent were mentions of the late …
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Sheryl Crow released her eleventh – and, according to her, final – album Threads last week, featuring a star-studded roster of collaborations. On Monday night, she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jason Isbell to perform “Everything Is Broken,” a cover of a Bob Dylan song from his 1989 album Oh Mercy. Crow …
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Popular Americana live act Drew Holcomb has announced the lineup for his annual Moon River Music Festival. First launched in 2014, the weekend concert returns to Chattanooga, Tennessee, on September 7th and 8th with one of its strongest bills to date. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and new Grammy …
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At this year’s Grammys, where he was up for several awards, Jason Isbell didn’t exactly tear the place up. “We weren’t on the televised part of the show, so we didn’t get the good seats,” he says with a good-natured laugh. “We wound up eating chicken fingers from the concession …
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Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell were the big winners when the 60th annual Grammy Awards announced the country and Americana categories during the pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony, while Stapleton took the night’s top country prize during the televised portion of the evening. Stapleton – who helped give Saturday Night Live its …
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With his sold-out, six-night run at the Ryman Auditorium now behind him, Jason Isbell has set his sights on another Nashville institution: the Country Music Hall of Fame. As the museum’s first artist-in-residence in nearly two years, he’ll perform three shows at the CMA Theater in December, scaling down his …
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