The Drive-By Truckers have released of their second album of 2020, THE NEW OK. Watch their official music video for their cover of The Ramones’ classic “The KKK Took My Baby Away,” featuring vocals by bassist Matt Patton above. THE NEW OK is the band’s 13th studio album, arriving just months …
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Today, The Americana Music Association has revealed the winners of the 19th annual Americana Honors & Awards via their social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). This year’s group of musical innovators include The Highwomen (Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Duo/Group of the Year), the late John Prine (Artist of the Year), Black Pumas (Emerging …
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Nathaniel Rateliff top the Americana Music Association’s year-end Top 100 Americana Radio Airplay Charts of 2020. Isbell and the 400 Unit’s album “Reunions” secured the #1 spot on the Americana Radio Airplay Albums Chart with the most spins for the year, while Rateliff’s …
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Cory Marks has released a lyric video for his rendition of The Tractor’s popular 90s holiday hit, “Jingle My Bells.” Marks’ rendition of the song carries the same rowdy feel as the original but kicks it up a notch with a supercharged tempo and a whole lot of fiddle. The …
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n a rare joint appearance, Brad and Kimberly Williams Paisley will join global humanitarian organization CARE for a virtual conversation about the global hunger crisis on Monday December 14 at 12:30pm ET. The Paisleys have been incredible advocates for ending hunger for many years, but with COVID-19 decimating economies around …
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Charley Pride, whose rich baritone voice and impeccable song-sense altered American culture, died Saturday, December 12, 2020, in Dallas, Texas of complications from Covid-19 at age 86. Born a sharecropper’s son in Sledge, Mississippi, on March 18, 1934, Pride emerged from Southern cotton fields to become country music’s first Black …
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Lauren Alaina has released her new video of “What Do You Think Of?,” her duet with Danish pop sensation Lukas Graham from her current Getting Over Him EP. (Watch Above) The video “What Do You Think Of?”, directed by TK McKamy, to date marks the largest-scale Virtual Production (VP) shoot …
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Four-time Entertainer of the Year and American Idol judge Luke Bryan reigns as Billboard’s Top Country Artist of the 2010s the magazine announced last week. Based on their charts, he ranks at the top by placing 11 #1s on the weekly Hot Country Songs chart and nine #1s on the Top Country Albums chart …
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As the holidays are approaching Riser House/Columbia Nashville artist Mitchell Tenpenny is bringing Christmas cheer a little early to his fans with the premiere of the “Neon Christmas”. (Watch above) The song is the title track from his new Neon Christmas EP released in October. The video was shot by …
Read More »The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) will officially open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 18. On that day, the museum will host a socially distant ribbon-cutting ceremony with museum board members, staff, elected officials and community leaders at the entrance to the museum located at …
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