Ingrid Andress takes a cold, hard look at what it’s like to be unable to move on after a relationship is over in “Anything But Love,” the riveting follow-up to her tender ballad “The Stranger.” “My over you turns into coming over, one step away from you is one step …
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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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When Leroy Virgil killed off his band Hellbound Glory in 2014, he went on a bender. He stayed on that bender for about a year and a half, but don’t ask him why. As far as the Reno, Nevada, country singer is concerned, the binge drinking just sort of happened. …
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It’s said a critical rule of recovery from addiction is learning to be self-honest. Sometimes to the point of discomfort. Travis Meadows knows this feeling well. “I’ve always struggled with fear,” says the Mississippi-raised singer-songwriter who lost his right leg to cancer at age 14; was in and out of …
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The organizers of the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas have released a statement about Sunday’s mass shooting, which killed 59 people and injured more than 500. “On behalf of the entire Route 91 Harvest Family, we are completely devastated by the event that occurred Sunday night. Our deepest …
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In the mid-1940s, Kentucky-born musician Bill Monroe was a regular member of the Grand Ole Opry, famed for hopped-up versions of such tunes as Jimmie Rodgers’ “Mule Skinner Blues.” Recording for RCA Victor at the time, in December 1945 the mandolin master welcomed a new member into his band, banjo …
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