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Though he’s responsible for creating them, Donovan Woods says he doesn’t always agree with the characters in his songs. That holds true for the Canadian singer-songwriter’s latest release “Grew Apart,” a simmering break-up tune in which the narrator bitterly attempts to shrug off his pain by concocting his own more …

Gibson Gives has pledged its support to musicians affected by the tornado that hit Middle Tennessee earlier this week, causing widespread damage and killing at least two dozen people. The charitable arm of Nashville-based Gibson Brands, Gibson Gives will provide a guitar to any musician whose instrument (any brand, not …

Jaime Wyatt follows up her celebrated 2017 debut Felony Blues with the new album Neon Cross, her first for New West Records. Produced by Shooter Jennings, the LP refines Wyatt’s honky-tonk sound into something more lush, layered, and complex, and arrives May 29th. Ahead of the album’s release, Wyatt unveils …

Infamous Stringdusters fiddler-singer Jeremy Garrett sits at a small table in the back room of Rock Brothers Brewing in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa. With the temperature outside hovering around 80 degrees, he’s sipping on a cold ale and catching his breath. The Stringdusters just finished another long, yet …

Eric Church says he’s currently at work on the follow-up to 2018’s Desperate Man. The singer-songwriter sat for a Q&A with radio personality Lon Helton during Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Thursday, during which he shared the status of his next album. Church said that instead of recording in …

Songwriter Gretchen Peters, whose formidable catalog includes Martina McBride’s “Independence Day,” pays homage to one of her songwriting heroes with the forthcoming album The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury. Due May 15th on Peters’ Scarlet Letter Records, the LP was cut at the historic Cinderella …

One week ahead of the release of their ninth studio album, Little Big Town offer an advance listen to the title cut from Nightfall. “Turn the lights down, we can watch the stars crawl/You and I fall, baby, when the night falls,” Karen Fairchild sings, as her bandmates harmonize behind …

For the past seven years, Robert Earl Keen has been forging a new holiday tradition with a run of irreverently themed Christmas shows. On December 2nd, the Texas singer and songwriter will kick off his eighth year of concerts with a gig in Greenville, South Carolina. As on tours of …

On November 11th, YouTube Originals will begin streaming the documentary film The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, a 90-minute film directed by Emmy- and Grammy-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny (Elvis Presley: The Searcher, Springsteen on Broadway) that features commentary from Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, and members of the Cash family, …

News of Michael Busbee’s death at 43 on Sunday resonated throughout Nashville and the music community at large. A respected songwriter and producer, he was a creative partner to Nashville artists like Maren Morris, Keith Urban, and Lady Antebellum, deftly bringing a pop sensibility to country music. And for good …