Nashville Music Scene w/ Jerry Holthouse

“I’m more interested in pleasing myself and making records that make me feel proud and make me feel like I’ve done my best. And if other people like it, that’s gravy,” states Keb’ Mo’, assessing his new album Oklahoma, set for release June 14, 2019, on Concord Records. Indeed, in …

Following a number of recent career accolades including his fifth consecutive number one hit, Brett Young today revealed “Acoustic Sessions,” a video series delivering stripped-down performances of hits and album cuts from his chart-topping sophomore album TICKET TO L.A. (BMLG Records). Available now, the debut installment “Here Tonight” features co-writer Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley, collaborating for …

Austin Cunningham has been writing music on Music Row for nearly three decades, but the Texas songwriter performs and records his own material too. “Country and Western Music,” produced by Jim Reilley and Cunningham, mixes classic country, rocking Americana and Texas-styled music. Cunningham plays a blazing electric guitar, resonator, banjo, …

Buddy & Julie Miller are set to return with Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, their first album in a decade, on June 21st, 2019 via New West Records. The 12-song set was produced by Miller and follows their critically acclaimed Written In Chalk, released in 2009. Three individual seven inch …

Emerging Nashville-based band King Calaway made their stadium debut this past Friday (May 3) as they performed as the opening act for Garth Brooks at his U.S. Bank Stadium show in Minneapolis, MN. The momentous occasion became even more memorable as Garth himself introduced the band as the opening act, marking …

Irish singer-songwriter Wallis Bird has just announced her first tour of the USA. A three-time international prize-winner (including two prestigious Irish Meteor Awards), she has recorded for Island Records and Columbia Records among others. Perhaps the greatest jewel in Wallis Bird’s crown, though, is her live performance. Most artists can’t …

On Tuesday night in Nashville, the stars were glowing as they walked the red carpet for the Music Biz 2019 Awards Dinner at the JW Marriott. Rock legend Peter Frampton humbly accepted the Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement, saying, “I am having some health problems, but I really am the …

National Council For Adoption (NCFA) was proud to present the 2019 Warren and Mary Alice Babineaux Award to recording artist Jimmy Wayne in recognition of his continued commitment to creating positive change in the lives of children in foster care who need permanent families. The Babineaux Award was presented following …

The Nude Party’s eponymous debut was produced by Oakley Munson of Black Lips and released by New West Records in 2018 to critical acclaim.  Demonstrating the band’s effortless synchronicity that has developed from living together for seven years,  it includes the song “Chevrolet Van,” which Consequence of Sound called “a …

Fantasy Records announced the signing of country music outlaw Tanya Tucker, who is set to release her brand-new album, While I’m Livin’ in late summer 2019. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, While I’m Livin’ will mark Tucker’s first release of all new material since 2002’s Tanya. “Tanya Tucker is an …