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Country duo Muscadine Bloodline released the new song “Enemy” overnight on Friday. It’s the duo’s first new recording since releasing the Movin’ On EP earlier in 2018. The “Can’t Tell You No” singers originally shared “Enemy” as part of their “Unreleased” video series, giving a raw, unadorned performance of the …

Dickey Betts sat down with journalist Dan Rather for a new episode of the journalist’s AXS TV seriesThe Big Interview. In a preview clip of the upcoming installment, which airs Tuesday, December 18th, the guitarist and co-founding member of the Allman Brothers Band discusses his decision to return to the …

Since joining the cast of USA’s new competition Real Country alongside Travis Tritt and Jake Owen, Shania Twain has been vocal about her desire to see more diversity in country music. In a new interview, the country-pop superstar discusses some of the present issues around equality on country radio and …

Roy Clark, who died Thursday at 85, may have been one of country music’s most revered musicians, but he found broad fame as the co-host of Hee Haw, opposite Buck Owens. The country variety series also served as a showcase for Clark’s playing though, especially its “Pickin’ and Grinnin’” segment. …

Keith Urban was named Entertainer of the Year at the 52nd annual CMA Awards, a surprise win that left the singer-guitarist in tears. It was Urban’s second Entertainer title, after first winning the top prize in 2005. “I am shocked beyond shocked,” he said. “I feel very grateful I get …

“Well if the good lord had not intended for me to partake of the hookers and cocaine, he would not have blessed them with creation,” says a fictional pastor to the anchor of “Cox News” at the beginning of Will Hoge‘s new video for “Gilded Walls.” Taking on the hypocrisy …

Southern-rock revivalists in Bishop Gunn are proud of their roots. They even named their newest album, Natchez, after the band’s Mississippi hometown, filling its songs with a mix of stomping Bible Belt blues and vintage, electrified soul. Their newest release, “Alabama,” is something of an outlier, downplaying the group’s amplified …

Maggie Rose had heard it one too many times, that phrase that makes her skin crawl: “We love her. But we just don’t know what to do with her.” “It’s really disheartening,” says Rose, sitting at a café in East Nashville in a studded denim jumpsuit. She always knew what …

Neil Young has never held his tongue when it comes to railing against factory farms and the corporate food industry. At the 33rd Farm Aid on Saturday in Hartford, Connecticut, Young’s impassioned appeals toward activism and policy change interlaced with his nonchalant stage style and relentless sense of humor made …

The 2018 Americana Music Festival and Conference gets under way in Nashville on Tuesday, with hordes of Americana artists, journalists and fans descending upon music venues, clubs and bars around Music City. This year, with an uptick in scheduled day parties and happy hours supplementing the requisite nighttime showcases, there’s …