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Luke Combs appeared onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night to perform a somewhat stripped-down version of “Lovin’ On You,” the country superstar’s fourth, and latest, single from his platinum-selling second album What You See Is What You Get. Filmed outside Nashville at the Brentwood Skate Center, Combs and …

Amber Woodhouse is exhausted. The Nashville-based singer and musician, who joined Steve Gorman’s roots-rock band Trigger Hippy last year, is tired of being your token black friend. Woodhouse plainly says as much in a first-person poem that the Minneapolis native wrote after the death of George Floyd at the hands …

At this unsettling period in our history, when many of us wish we could time travel to a simpler past, old friends and collaborators Kristian Bush and Andrew Hyra reconvene to do just that with their music. As folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim, Bush and Hyra are set to release the …

Eric Church makes a case for more serious material in country songwriting with the furious new single “Stick That in Your Country Song.” Opening with an ominous acoustic guitar riff, Church outlines social issues plaguing people in cities like Detroit and Baltimore, along with veterans returning from combat and underpaid …

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit performed the slinking “Running With Our Eyes Closed,” along with an impassioned rendition of “Overseas,” as part of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’s ongoing #PlayAtHomeSeries. The songwriter and his socially distanced band combined seamlessly for the performances: “Running With Our Eyes Closed” for …

Roots-rock group the Band of Heathens are among the country, folk, jam, and Americana artists paying homage to bluegrass Renaissance man John Hartford on the new album On the Road: A Tribute to John Hartford. The Austin band tackle “Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie,” a freewheeling …

Charlie Worsham has recorded and released a one-man-band version of David Bowie‘s 1977 song “Heroes” as an homage to the nation’s health care workers fighting COVID-19. The country singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist filmed a homemade video for the clip that shows him recording the track in the studio and hamming …

Willie Nelson celebrates Mother’s Day with “I’m the Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised,” a fiery new single from his upcoming album First Rose of Spring, out July 3rd. Nelson dropped the track accompanied by a lyric video, with lush flowers blooming alongside each rollicking line: “I can tell my …

Several years before Randy Travis adopted his stage name and changed country-music history, the native of Marshville, North Carolina, was still using his birth name Randy Traywick as the teenaged front man of a bar band called Country Lovin’, which played a regular gig at Charlotte’s Country City U.S.A. in …

There’s rarely any filler on an Eric Church record. He’s one country songwriter for whom the concept of the album still matters, and he pays as much mind to his deep tracks as he does his singles. As the North Carolina singer celebrates his 43rd birthday on May 3rd, we …