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Brothers Osborne have announced plans for their third studio album, Skeletons. The follow-up to 2018’s Port Saint Joe, the CMA-winning duo’s new LP will be released October 9th. Working once again with producer Jay Joyce — who oversaw their first two albums — TJ and John Osborne wrote or co-wrote …

In the coming months, Gillian Welch will release three albums of previously unheard material, all of which was recorded between the making of 2001’s Time (The Revelator) and 2003’s Soul Journey. The 48 recordings, collectively titled Boots No 2: The Lost Songs, will arrive as three discrete albums, with the …

Long renowned for a faithful adherence to the Appalachian folk music tradition in many of their solo works as well as their collaborations as a duo, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have announced the release of All The Good Times, a 10-track sampling of acoustic cover songs. Recorded at home …

One of the highlights of Jesse Malin‘s quarantined livestream series, The Fine Art of Self-Distancing, has been his cover of Tom Petty‘s “Crawling Back to You,” a track off of Petty’s 1994 LP, Wildflowers. Malin saw Petty perform the song at the Hollywood Bowl in 2017 — at what would …

Gillian Welch was away from home one Mother’s Day in the early part of the 2000s when she was struck by a desire to sing for her mom. She wrote a new song, appropriately titled “Happy Mother’s Day,” and called her mother to play it into the answering machine. On …

In the video for “When You’re My Age,” singer-songwriter Lori McKenna is joined by her Love Junkies cohorts Hillary Lindsey and Liz Rose along with producer Dave Cobb for an intimate glimpse into the recording of the track at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A. It’s the first cut issued from …

John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of everyday working people and changed the face of modern American roots music, died Tuesday at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was 73. The cause was complications related to COVID-19, his family confirmed …

One morning last fall, Luke Laird was eating breakfast and listening to one of his favorite Apple Music playlists, Honky-Tonk Essentials. When Webb Pierce’s 1953 hit “There Stands the Glass” started playing, Laird had a strange thought. “I was like man, ‘What if I made a beat and sample that?’” …

Just two weeks away from the release of her self-titled second album, Carly Pearce reveals another cut from the forthcoming LP, with the bright, flirtatious “You Kissed Me First.” Recalling a couple’s first encounter in a bar, she wants her romantic partner to know that whatever transpires next is on …

Although Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium has hosted concerts and events from virtually every musical genre in its 128-year history, its integral role in the birth of bluegrass is one of the hallowed venue’s most important claims to fame. Shortly after its restoration and renovation led to the reopening of the Ryman …