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A young couple escape a bad situation at home by hitting the open road in Sam Hunt‘s short-film video for the song “Young Once.” Directed by Tim Mattia, the video follows two teens as they hop a train to flee their busted lives in what appears to be the California …

Actor-musician Ed Helms combines special guests with roots music, comedy, and interviews for a new livestreamed series. Whiskey Sour Happy Hour premieres April 22nd online and raises funds for MusiCares’ COVID-19 Relief Fund and Direct Relief. Lee Ann Womack, Aubrie Sellers, Billy Strings, and Madison Cunningham all appear in the …

Sadler Vaden gets the honor of becoming the first remote interview on Chris Shiflett‘s Walking the Floor podcast, appearing in an episode that was recorded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaden, perhaps best known as the guitarist in Jason Isbell’s backing band the 400 Unit, released his new …

Lilly Hiatt likes being alone. Earlier this year, when one could still travel, she left her boyfriend and cat behind in Tennessee to spend four days exploring the Oregon coast. When she was a kid, she’d race off to summer camp, only to look forward to going home at the …

Most of Nashville’s country-music community should have been in Las Vegas by now. The 55th ACM Awards were to be held Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, with trophies handed out, nominees performing, and 12 million or so viewers tuning in to CBS’s three-hour live broadcast. But like many …

Drummer Biff Adam, who was an integral member of Merle Haggard’s legendary backing band for four decades, and also served as the singer’s publicist and bus driver for several years, died Saturday, March 7th, after battling congestive heart failure. Adam’s daughters, Debi Stalder and Connie Ishman, shared the news on …

Steve Earle examines the physical strength and life-risking bravery of Appalachian miners in “Devil Put the Coal in the Ground,” the first preview of the singer’s new album, Ghosts of West Virginia. The follow-up to the Texas-born singer-songwriter’s 2019 Guy Clark tribute album, Guy, Earle and his band the Dukes’ …

Following a recent two-week country radio Number One with “The Bones,” Maren Morris has announced dates for her headlining RSVP: The Tour. Named for a song from Morris’ 2019 CMA Award-winning album Girl, the tour gets underway June 5th in Boston and runs through mid-October, with stops including Red Rocks …

Tenille Townes is paying tribute to generations of women working in agriculture with the new song “In My Blood.” The release coincides with the beginning of National FFA (Future Farmers of America) Week and celebrates the 50 years of women in FFA. Driven by acoustic guitar strums and a welcoming …

Shovels & Rope sing about unfulfilled promise in their song “Mississippi Nuthin’,” giving voice to a guy who has big dreams but no way to manifest them. The Americana duo further that theme in a new video for the song. “I got an idea that’s gonna turn on the money …