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Lucero have been in the game for a solid 20 years at this point. As the Memphis ensemble prepares to celebrate their second decade as band with a new LP, Among the Ghosts, they track a trip down memory lane and pull out some old camcorder footage for the nostalgic …

Colter Wall‘s music often feels like it’s ripped from the lives of forgotten people from decades and even centuries past, and his latest release is exactly that – for many American fans, anyway. “Calgary Round-Up” sees the Canadian singer-songwriter tackling a signature tune by one of his home country’s seminal …

On July 13th, nearly 40 years after his debut LP was released, Rodney Crowell will issue his 19th album. Acoustic Classics vividly re-imagines some of Crowell’s best-known songs and personal favorites with stripped-down – and in a few cases, markedly different – arrangements. One such tune is “Leaving Louisiana in …

When the final notes of Luke Bryan’s set close out the 2018 CMA Music Festival on Sunday night at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, the annual country blowout is only half over. In August, the massive concert will be whittled down to a three-hour highlights special – CMA Fest – to …

With New Zealand as her home base, singer-songwriter Tami Neilson spends a fair portion of her working life with an ocean separating her from family. The powerhouse vocalist, a native of Canada, deals with the subject in “Manitoba Sunrise at Motel 6,” which now has a melancholy video to accompany …

Indie roots-rockers Dawes slip on their thinking caps for the new track “Crack the Case,” a cool-and-collected taste of their upcoming sixth album, Passwords, out June 22nd. Presented as a retro-future lyric video with its storyline scrolling across a space-race era computer console, the track appears to be asking one …

Hank Williams III‘s 2006 album Straight to Hell was one of the best country albums of the Aughts, an aggressive, defiantly country record, propelled by the grandson of Hank Williams’ punk sneer and reckless playing. “Country Heroes” was the centerpiece, a woozy, boozy ballad about finding solace in both the …

With the frenzy of South By Southwest only barely in the rearview mirror, it’s already time to start planning for the Americana music world’s equivalent, AmericanaFest, which takes in Nashville every September. The first 74 performers for the 2018 edition have been announced, with Brandy Clark, American Aquarium, Alejandro Escovedo …

Marty Stuart‘s Late Night Jam returns to Nashville this summer for the 17th year, bringing a hand-picked lineup of songwriters, square dancers and comedians to the Ryman Auditorium. As usual, the event will take place during the annual CMA Music Festival, kicking off at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6th, …

Two years after the release of the Grammy-nominated LP Ripcord, Keith Urban is set to unveil Graffiti U, a 13-track collection that has already spawned three buzzy songs: “Parallel Line,” “Coming Home,” with Julia Michaels, and the #MeToo movement-inspired “Female,” which Urban debuted in performance at the CMA Awards last …