Luke Combs knows his way around a heartbreak ballad, but at least the bottle’s never let him down. So goes the theme of the North Carolina native’s first-ever headlining arena jaunt, the Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour, set to kick off in 2019 with Lanco and Jameson Rodgers supporting. …
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Delta Rae have released the scenery-rich video for “Do You Ever Dream,” the band’s first new music since 2017’s A Long and Happy Life EP. The video, filmed in North Carolina and in Reykjavik, Iceland, with director Law, unites different kinds of dreaming — from thinking about the future to the …
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Faith Hill revisited the Mississippi gospel-music roots of her youth with a powerful performance of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” during Friday’s funeral service for R&B legend Aretha Franklin at Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple. Franklin died August 16th after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 76. The …
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“There’s a crooked leader on a crooked stage, but he seems to think he’s standing tall,” Amos Lee sings in “Crooked,” the latest song released from his upcoming new album My New Moon. A rhythmic, at times haunting, shuffle with well-placed swells of strings, “Crooked” highlights the folk songwriting of …
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Ed King, the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist who joined the band in 1972 to give the Southern rock group its iconic three-guitar sound, died Wednesday in Nashville. He was 68. A cause of death was not specified, though King had been battling lung cancer and had recently been hospitalized for the …
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Lucinda Williams will mark the 20th anniversary of her Grammy-winning LP Car Wheels on a Gravel Road with a 10-city tour this fall. Launching November 2nd in Collingswood, New Jersey, the trek includes a two-night stand at the Paradise in Boston, with stops in New York, Chicago and Toronto, Ontario. …
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The world has gotten to see a whole new side of Scotty McCreery in 2018, and now the former American Idol winner will round off the year with a fresh U.S. tour in support of his latest LP, Seasons Change, with support from Jimmie Allen and Heather Morgan. Far from …
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There’s a point in recent Lucero shows when frontman Ben Nichols pulls back from his anthems of last calls and heartbreaks and leads the band in “Hello, My Name Is Izzy,” a lighthearted country shuffle penned for his two-year-old daughter. Sometimes she even comes onstage, earmuffs on, to dance. That …
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“Road to Happiness,” the recently released single from “Burning House” singer Cam, is an acoustic-based meditation on life’s uncertain journey. But for anyone who has seen the California-born spitfire on stage, her upcoming Road to Happiness Tour will almost certainly not echo the song’s gentle restraint. With her month-long supporting …
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Blackberry Smoke‘s crunchy Southern rock may be made for fuzzed-out electric guitars, but their songs sure do translate well to being played acoustically. Now the Georgia crew is releasing a new EP, The Southern Ground Sessions, with just that in mind, including a stripped-down take of “Run Away From It …
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