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Canadian-born singer-songwriter Lindi Ortega’s forthcoming LPLibertyis a concept album, driven by the work of Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, famed for his musical scores of spaghetti westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The LP explores Ortega’s links to her Mexican and Irish heritage and sees its main …

Since Garth Brooks returned to touring after a 16-year absence, he’s set records and racked up a slew of honors, including back-to-back CMA Entertainer of the Year titles. Now Brooks can add induction into the newly minted Live Music Hall of Fame. Brooks was announced as the Hall of Fame’s …

Dierks Bentley and Luke Bryan will not be returning as hosts of the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2018, it was revealed on Monday. According to Billboard, Bentley let the news slip during his keynote interview at the 2018 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. The “Woman, Amen” singer was …

Reba McEntire‘s singular look and sound has served as inspiration for a generation of drag queens, many of whom seized on the campy melodrama of “Fancy” and “Does He Love You” to bring the house down as soon as those songs entered the popular canon. In 2018, the country icon …

A few days ago, Margo Price‘s husband, Jeremy, and her seven-year-old son, Judah, discovered a moonshine barrel on a hill behind their brand-new home, located 20 minutes from downtown Nashville. “I went, ‘I gotta see this. I can’t be left out,’ ” Price says, milling around her retro wooden kitchen in …

Ever since the Carter Family promoted their concerts with posters that read, “the program is morally good,” country music – with its songs about family, faith and idyllic small towns – has thrived on a reputation as the more wholesome of musical genres and communities. But when it comes to …

By 1987, seven years into his MCA recording contract, George Strait had already laid the groundwork for a King-sized career. He had, in fact, already released his first Christmas album and first greatest-hits compilation before setting his sights on his seventh studio albumOcean Front Property, which was released 31 years …

Since its impromptu inception in 2014, all-star Americana trio I’m With Her has been touring mid-sized theaters with impressive regularity for a group without a proper album on the market. On February 16th, the group – Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan and Sara Watkins – will release their long-awaited debut LP …

In 1965 and 1966, the Beatles and Roger Miller were two of the biggest music acts on the planet. In that two-year period, while the Fab Four dominated the pop charts, Miller was all over the country charts and crossing into the pop world with hits including “Engine Engine #9,” …

The top country radio artists of 2017 have been announced in a yearly set of lists based on data tallied by Mediabase, which measures nationwide radio airplay on stations. Blake Shelton has been identified as both the year’s most-played male and overall artist, based in large part on his two …