A new posthumous Johnny Cash album, Songwriter, filled with previously unreleased tunes written and performed by the Man in Black is set to arrive June 28 via Mercury Nashville/UMe.
The 11-track collection features songs Cash had written over many years, then finally put to tape during a demo session at Lsi Studios in Nashville in early 1993. But that project was ultimately scrapped after Cash met Rick Rubin and the two struck up a prolific creative partnership that lasted through Cash’s death in 2003.
After Cash’s son, John Carter Cash,...
The 11-track collection features songs Cash had written over many years, then finally put to tape during a demo session at Lsi Studios in Nashville in early 1993. But that project was ultimately scrapped after Cash met Rick Rubin and the two struck up a prolific creative partnership that lasted through Cash’s death in 2003.
After Cash’s son, John Carter Cash,...
- 4/23/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
An unreleased Johnny Cash album will finally see the light of day, thanks to his son John Carter Cash and a team of world-class country musicians. Titled Songwriter, the project was recorded in 1993, and will be released on June 28th via Mercury Nashville/UMe.
Songwriter features 11 songs written solely by Cash over the course of his then-40-year-long career. He made the album at Lsi Studios in Nashville during a period when he was between contracts, and it ultimately ended up shelved until his son, John Carter, and producer David “Fergie” Ferguson sought to finish it with a group of musicians who played with Cash, including Marty Stuart, Pete Abbott, the late Dave Roe, and others.
Today, ahead of the album’s release, Cash’s estate shared the single “Well Alright,” a classic story-telling song with an even-more-classic country arrangement, even down to the tinny lead guitar, train-shuffle beat, and folksy,...
Songwriter features 11 songs written solely by Cash over the course of his then-40-year-long career. He made the album at Lsi Studios in Nashville during a period when he was between contracts, and it ultimately ended up shelved until his son, John Carter, and producer David “Fergie” Ferguson sought to finish it with a group of musicians who played with Cash, including Marty Stuart, Pete Abbott, the late Dave Roe, and others.
Today, ahead of the album’s release, Cash’s estate shared the single “Well Alright,” a classic story-telling song with an even-more-classic country arrangement, even down to the tinny lead guitar, train-shuffle beat, and folksy,...
- 4/23/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Dolly Parton honored Tom Petty with a gorgeous cover of his 1985 song, “Southern Accents,” which will appear on the upcoming tribute compilation Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty.
“Southern Accents” is a tender ballad about Southern roots and a down-on-his luck Florida orange-picker. Parton stays faithful to the original, adding her own country twang, and juicing the poignancy further with a music video filled with old archival footage of Petty.
“I was fortunate enough to get to know Tom over the years,” Parton said in a statement.
“Southern Accents” is a tender ballad about Southern roots and a down-on-his luck Florida orange-picker. Parton stays faithful to the original, adding her own country twang, and juicing the poignancy further with a music video filled with old archival footage of Petty.
“I was fortunate enough to get to know Tom over the years,” Parton said in a statement.
- 4/5/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Dolly Parton has revealed her reimagined rendition of Tom Petty’s song “Southern Accents” for the forthcoming compilation, Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty.
The song features a prologue delivered by the late Tom Petty himself describing how the moment of inspiration that led to “Southern Accents.” Dolly Parton then provides an emotional, stirring rendition of the song, kept at the same balladeer tempo as Petty’s original. She retains much of the song, though she adds a crucial change to the song’s latter third when belting “Yes I’m proud to be what I am/ A southern girl from a southern town/ I ain’t ashamed, I ain’t ashamed, I ain’t ashamed.”
“I was fortunate enough to get to know Tom [Petty] over the years,” Dolly Parton says in a statement. “He’s such an iconic artist and important songwriter. I’m so honored...
The song features a prologue delivered by the late Tom Petty himself describing how the moment of inspiration that led to “Southern Accents.” Dolly Parton then provides an emotional, stirring rendition of the song, kept at the same balladeer tempo as Petty’s original. She retains much of the song, though she adds a crucial change to the song’s latter third when belting “Yes I’m proud to be what I am/ A southern girl from a southern town/ I ain’t ashamed, I ain’t ashamed, I ain’t ashamed.”
“I was fortunate enough to get to know Tom [Petty] over the years,” Dolly Parton says in a statement. “He’s such an iconic artist and important songwriter. I’m so honored...
- 4/5/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
Chris Stapleton will continue his extensive “All-American Road Show” tour through next summer including newly confirmed shows at San Diego’s Petco Park, Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium, Seattle’s T-Mobile Park, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, Cleveland’s Blossom Music Center and Philadelphia’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion among many others. Special guests on the tour, which is produced by Live Nation, include Sheryl Crow, Elle King, Marcus King, Nikki Lane, Willie Nelson and Family, Grace Potter, Allen Stone, Marty Stuart, Turnpike Troubadours, The War and Treaty and Lainey Wilson. See below for complete itinerary. Tickets for the new dates will go on-sale next ... Read more...
- 10/27/2023
- by Thomas Miller
- Seat42F
Chris Stapleton has extended his “All-American Road Show” tour well into 2024 with support from a rotating cast including Sheryl Crow, Elle King, Marcus King, Nikki Lane, Willie Nelson and Family, Grace Potter, Allen Stone, Marty Stuart, Turnpike Troubadours, The War and Treaty, and Lainey Wilson.
The new run of shows kicks off on March 2nd in San Diego and includes stops in Philadelphia, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Nashville, Seattle, and more before wrapping in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 22nd. See his full touring itinerary below.
A Live Nation pre-sale for select dates will begin on Thursday, November 2nd (use access code Backstage) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, November 3rd via Ticketmaster.
Find deals for all of Stapleton’s upcoming tour dates at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value,...
The new run of shows kicks off on March 2nd in San Diego and includes stops in Philadelphia, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Nashville, Seattle, and more before wrapping in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 22nd. See his full touring itinerary below.
A Live Nation pre-sale for select dates will begin on Thursday, November 2nd (use access code Backstage) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, November 3rd via Ticketmaster.
Find deals for all of Stapleton’s upcoming tour dates at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
A panel of hip-hop innovators — Dmc, Melle Mel, DJ Khaled, and the Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo — reflect on the genre’s roots in a new video posted by TeachRock, the nonprofit educational resource Stevie Van Zandt has launched to bring music history lessons to classrooms. Khaled discusses how seeing Run-Dmc perform “Peter Piper” live was a formative moment for him, while Dmc talks about reading the liner notes of a record he liked and wondering who Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel were.
“To this day, ‘The Message’ is still the most important record,...
“To this day, ‘The Message’ is still the most important record,...
- 6/5/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Forty-nine years ago, a front-page headline in Nashville’s Tennessean proclaimed “Marty’s a Mandolin Pro at 15,” heralding Marty Stuart’s teenaged role in Lester Flatt’s late-period band Nashville Grass. Stuart would also tour with Johnny Cash and achieve mainstream country success before establishing himself and his longtime band, the Superlatives, as stalwarts of the musically expansive Americana landscape.
Now a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Stuart’s efforts to honor country’s traditions while injecting his music with the rock & roll he began playing as...
Now a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Stuart’s efforts to honor country’s traditions while injecting his music with the rock & roll he began playing as...
- 5/19/2023
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
When Marty Stuart was growing up in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the Ellis Theater downtown could practically qualify as his second home. He watched the 1969 film Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music in the old movie house, and lived to tell the Man in Black about it after joining his band in 1980.
But today, with decades of success in Nashville to his credit — first as a sideman to bluegrass legend Lester Flatt, then Cash, and finally as a bandleader in his own right — Stuart has reclaimed the 500-seat venue in...
But today, with decades of success in Nashville to his credit — first as a sideman to bluegrass legend Lester Flatt, then Cash, and finally as a bandleader in his own right — Stuart has reclaimed the 500-seat venue in...
- 5/1/2023
- by Jim Beaugez
- Rollingstone.com
Pedigree Foundation, a philanthropic organization that helps dogs find their forever homes, will host “The Love of Dogs” Benefit Concert on Wednesday, May 17th at 6:00pm at Marathon Music Works.
The concert event will hosted by syndicated country radio personality Shawn Parr and will include a cocktail reception, dinner, and exciting live/silent auction that will be followed by a Special Musical Performance by Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives – all to benefit Pedigree Foundation and its shelter and
rescue grants program.
Marty Stuart is a Country Music Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy-winner, and Ama Lifetime Achievement honoree. Stuart will release his new album, Altitude, just two days after the event on May 19th via Snakefarm. This is his first new album in more than six years. Late last year, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives were inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and he celebrated his 50th...
The concert event will hosted by syndicated country radio personality Shawn Parr and will include a cocktail reception, dinner, and exciting live/silent auction that will be followed by a Special Musical Performance by Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives – all to benefit Pedigree Foundation and its shelter and
rescue grants program.
Marty Stuart is a Country Music Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy-winner, and Ama Lifetime Achievement honoree. Stuart will release his new album, Altitude, just two days after the event on May 19th via Snakefarm. This is his first new album in more than six years. Late last year, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives were inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and he celebrated his 50th...
- 4/19/2023
- Look to the Stars
Voters for the Country Music Hall of Fame will be deciding their 2023 inductees in a few weeks. Vote in our poll below for your choice of who should be selected. Last year’s inductees for the class of 2022 were Joe Galante (executive), Keith Whitley (modern era) and Jerry Lew Lewis (veterans era). Other recent modern era inductees have included The Judds (2021), Marty Stuart (2020), Brooks and Dunn (2019), Ricky Skaggs (2018) and Alan Jackson (2017).
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Our poll strictly focuses on the modern era category, which includes any artist who first gained national prominence 20 years ago (or longer). Here are the 12 superstars you’ll find in our poll (only one will be chosen):
Clint Black
Kenny Chesney
Faith Hill
Alison Krauss
Martina McBride
Tim McGraw
Brad Paisley
Travis Tritt
Shania Twain
Keith Urban
Trisha Yearwood
Dwight Yoakam
The veterans category...
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Our poll strictly focuses on the modern era category, which includes any artist who first gained national prominence 20 years ago (or longer). Here are the 12 superstars you’ll find in our poll (only one will be chosen):
Clint Black
Kenny Chesney
Faith Hill
Alison Krauss
Martina McBride
Tim McGraw
Brad Paisley
Travis Tritt
Shania Twain
Keith Urban
Trisha Yearwood
Dwight Yoakam
The veterans category...
- 4/1/2023
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Chris Stapleton will spend much of his Spring and Summer 2023 on the road for his “All-American Road Show,” a lengthy list of tour dates that’ll take him across North America (get tickets here).
The “All-American Road Show” 2023 tour dates kick off April 26th in El Paso, Texas, at the Utep Don Haskins Center. Stapleton will then make stops at large-scale venues like Syracuse’s St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Mansfield’s Xfinity Center, St. Louis’ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Charleston’s Credit One Stadium, Bangor’s Maine Savings Amphitheater, Gilford’s Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, Toronto’s Budweiser Stage, and many others. He’s also set to headline the final night of Stagecoach.
The country star will also welcome a stacked crew of special guests as supporting acts: Charley Crockett, Marcus King, Nikki Lane, Margo Price, Allen Stone, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, and The War...
The “All-American Road Show” 2023 tour dates kick off April 26th in El Paso, Texas, at the Utep Don Haskins Center. Stapleton will then make stops at large-scale venues like Syracuse’s St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Mansfield’s Xfinity Center, St. Louis’ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Charleston’s Credit One Stadium, Bangor’s Maine Savings Amphitheater, Gilford’s Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, Toronto’s Budweiser Stage, and many others. He’s also set to headline the final night of Stagecoach.
The country star will also welcome a stacked crew of special guests as supporting acts: Charley Crockett, Marcus King, Nikki Lane, Margo Price, Allen Stone, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, and The War...
- 3/9/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
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Chris Stapleton will buttress his upcoming stadium tour with George Strait with his own All American Road Show, a series of guest-filled headlining gigs that began in April and will now run through August 2024 with the addition of dozens of additional dates.
Sheryl Crow, Elle King, Marcus King, Nikki Lane, Willie Nelson and Family, Grace Potter, Allen Stone, Marty Stuart, Turnpike Troubadours, The War and Treaty and Lainey Wilson...
Chris Stapleton will buttress his upcoming stadium tour with George Strait with his own All American Road Show, a series of guest-filled headlining gigs that began in April and will now run through August 2024 with the addition of dozens of additional dates.
Sheryl Crow, Elle King, Marcus King, Nikki Lane, Willie Nelson and Family, Grace Potter, Allen Stone, Marty Stuart, Turnpike Troubadours, The War and Treaty and Lainey Wilson...
- 2/2/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Marty Stuart spins some fantastical stories where fiction and reality blur in the new song “Country Star,” recorded with his band the Fabulous Superlatives. It’s the first new single Stuart has released since putting out the trippy, surf-inspired album Way Out West in 2017.
A jangling country-rock tune with some lively lead guitar licks, “Country Star” hurtles along with considerable momentum and gives Stuart a chance to make some absurd boasts. “I was raised by alligators in the Pearl River swamp/started a-dancin’ on the boogie-woogie stump,” he sings at one point.
A jangling country-rock tune with some lively lead guitar licks, “Country Star” hurtles along with considerable momentum and gives Stuart a chance to make some absurd boasts. “I was raised by alligators in the Pearl River swamp/started a-dancin’ on the boogie-woogie stump,” he sings at one point.
- 11/17/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Marcus King leans back and takes a swig from a can of Coors Light as he talks about having premonitions of his own doom. The singer-guitarist turned 25 last year, and went through a period of profound heartbreak and self-destructive behavior. He kept hearing one English rock band’s songs in unlikely places.
“I would hear Free everywhere, like deep-cut tunes you never really hear. Because everybody knows ‘All Right Now,’” King says. “I was in a restaurant and ‘Wishing Well’ would come on, or I was watching the [FX on Hulu] show Devs,...
“I would hear Free everywhere, like deep-cut tunes you never really hear. Because everybody knows ‘All Right Now,’” King says. “I was in a restaurant and ‘Wishing Well’ would come on, or I was watching the [FX on Hulu] show Devs,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Chris Stapleton and Brandi Carlile are headlining the 2022 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival. The weekend festival — now in its eighth year — is set for Sept. 24 and 25 in Franklin, Tennessee, a short drive south from Nashville.
Other artists performing at the Park at Harlinsdale Farm include the Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Trampled by Turtles, Adia Victoria, Butch Walker, and Jon Batiste, whose album We Are won Album of the Year at this month’s Grammy Awards. Elle King, Dawes, Marty Stuart, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Brittney Spencer, the Brummies, Rosie Flores,...
Other artists performing at the Park at Harlinsdale Farm include the Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Trampled by Turtles, Adia Victoria, Butch Walker, and Jon Batiste, whose album We Are won Album of the Year at this month’s Grammy Awards. Elle King, Dawes, Marty Stuart, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Brittney Spencer, the Brummies, Rosie Flores,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Chris Stapleton is keeping a steady pace on tour this year: He’s added new dates to his headlining All-American Road Show that will carry him all the way through fall. The country songwriter kicks off the trek in March after an appearance at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
For this extended leg of the All-American Road Show, Stapleton will double up with back-to-back performances at some of the American venues. That means two nights in Durant, Oklahoma; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Denver, Colorado. In April, Stapleton will head into Canada for three weeks,...
For this extended leg of the All-American Road Show, Stapleton will double up with back-to-back performances at some of the American venues. That means two nights in Durant, Oklahoma; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Denver, Colorado. In April, Stapleton will head into Canada for three weeks,...
- 2/18/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
On New Year’s Day 1964, Connie Smith — then still an aspiring singer — met Grand Ole Opry star Bill Anderson at a concert in Canton, Ohio. It was actually their second meeting: The first followed Smith’s victory in a talent show in Columbus, after which Anderson invited her to perform on the Ernest Tubb radio show and record some demos.
It was a whirlwind, and by summer of ’64, Smith had her first hit for RCA with the record-setting Anderson-penned smash “Once a Day.” A year later, Connie Smith herself joined the Grand Ole Opry.
It was a whirlwind, and by summer of ’64, Smith had her first hit for RCA with the record-setting Anderson-penned smash “Once a Day.” A year later, Connie Smith herself joined the Grand Ole Opry.
- 12/31/2021
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
The Country Music Hall of Fame has announced its 2021 class of inductees. The mother and daughter duo the Judds will be inducted as Modern Era artists, legendary soul vocalist and piano player Ray Charles will be enshrined in the Veteran category, and drummer Eddie Bayers and pedal-steel player Pete Drake enter in the Recording and/or Touring Musician field. Bayers and Drake tied for induction.
Reba McEntire made the announcement of the 2021 honorees during a livestreame presentation on Monday.
The duo of Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd signed their record...
Reba McEntire made the announcement of the 2021 honorees during a livestreame presentation on Monday.
The duo of Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd signed their record...
- 8/16/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Before “country music outlaw” became just another outfit for would-be badasses to try on, Johnny Cash made it a job description. But among the seven arrests he accrued during his most tumultuous years, from the late 1950s to 1967, none was quite like the time he was arrested in Starkville, Mississippi while picking flowers on May 11th, 1965.
The way the Man in Black told the story of his mishap in the song “Starkville City Jail,” from his 1969 live album Johnny Cash at San Quentin, he was innocently picking dandelions and daisies...
The way the Man in Black told the story of his mishap in the song “Starkville City Jail,” from his 1969 live album Johnny Cash at San Quentin, he was innocently picking dandelions and daisies...
- 5/14/2021
- by Jim Beaugez
- Rollingstone.com
Country Music Hall of Fame member Connie Smith will release her new album The Cry of the Heart via Fat Possum Records in 2021. The album’s first single, the rollicking “Look Out Heart,” is out now.
Written by Smith’s husband Marty Stuart with Fabulous Superlatives drummer Harry Stinson and produced by Stuart, “Look Out Heart” is a spunky-but-suspicious tune propelled by a shuffling backbeat and walking bassline, accented by slinky electric guitar B-bending. “I promised you the last time there’d never be a next time/Look out heart,...
Written by Smith’s husband Marty Stuart with Fabulous Superlatives drummer Harry Stinson and produced by Stuart, “Look Out Heart” is a spunky-but-suspicious tune propelled by a shuffling backbeat and walking bassline, accented by slinky electric guitar B-bending. “I promised you the last time there’d never be a next time/Look out heart,...
- 5/12/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Marty Stuart turns in a bittersweet cover of Willie Nelson’s “One in a Row,” the latest track to be released from his digital album Songs I Sing in the Dark. Stuart released his version of “Ready for the Times to Get Better” in March.
A full band performance that builds on its foundation of piano, steel, and drums to include more orchestral sounds, Stuart’s “One in a Row” piles on the pathos for its narrator and his conflict about a lover who won’t be true. “And if...
A full band performance that builds on its foundation of piano, steel, and drums to include more orchestral sounds, Stuart’s “One in a Row” piles on the pathos for its narrator and his conflict about a lover who won’t be true. “And if...
- 4/27/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Marty Stuart has announced the digital album Songs I Sing in the Dark, a collection of 20 acoustic numbers that he’ll debut on a monthly basis. The first installment is Stuart’s version of “Ready for the Times to Get Better” and, as the Country Music Hall of Fame member explains in a new video, it embodies the spirit of this new project through the comfort it gave him during the last year of confinement.
“Songs are like magic carpets — they can transport you from wherever you are to somewhere we want to be,...
“Songs are like magic carpets — they can transport you from wherever you are to somewhere we want to be,...
- 3/24/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Charley Pride’s death on Saturday from complications of Covid-19 resulted in an outpouring from artists including Dolly Parton, Maren Morris, Darius Rucker, and Marty Stuart. Stuart also honored Pride regularly while he was living, inviting the country legend on his Rfd-TV show more than any other artist. After Pride’s death, Stuart and his wife, singer Connie Smith, posted a tribute saying, “I was so proud to call Mr. Pride my friend. He was, and will forever be one of the grandest of all my country music heroes.
- 12/14/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
In February 2016, Jamey Johnson arrived at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, to transform a Johnny Cash sketch into a full-fledged song. The result of that session arrives Thursday with the Rolling Stone Country premiere of “California Poem,” one of a number of new tracks on a deluxe edition of the album Forever Words. Originally released in 2018, the LP put Cash’s unfinished writings, poems, and lyrics into the hands of artists like Chris Cornell, Ruston Kelly, and Brad Paisley.
After Johnson finished writing “California Poem” with Cash’s son John Carter Cash,...
After Johnson finished writing “California Poem” with Cash’s son John Carter Cash,...
- 12/10/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum found the inspiration for its upcoming fundraising event from an unlikely source: penguins.
At the beginning of the pandemic, when museums and nearly everything else were forced to close down, Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium managed to create a viral moment by letting its penguins roam loose in the facility and broadcasting the shenanigans online. The penguins were early quarantine stars. Country Music Hall of Fame CEO Kyle Young was among those watching.
“They were looking at the fish swimming around,” Young recalls.
At the beginning of the pandemic, when museums and nearly everything else were forced to close down, Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium managed to create a viral moment by letting its penguins roam loose in the facility and broadcasting the shenanigans online. The penguins were early quarantine stars. Country Music Hall of Fame CEO Kyle Young was among those watching.
“They were looking at the fish swimming around,” Young recalls.
- 10/27/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Legacy Records has announced an expanded edition of Forever Words, the 2018 collaborative album that found artists like Chris Cornell and Elvis Costello setting poems and lyrics of Johnny Cash to music for the first time.
The deluxe version of Forever Words will be released to streaming services in four “waves,” pairing a total of 18 new songs with the album’s original 16 tracks. The first wave arrives today (Friday, October 23rd) with the songs “Big Hearted Girl” by Hard Working Americans and “I’m Comin’ Honey” by Shawn Camp, alongside the...
The deluxe version of Forever Words will be released to streaming services in four “waves,” pairing a total of 18 new songs with the album’s original 16 tracks. The first wave arrives today (Friday, October 23rd) with the songs “Big Hearted Girl” by Hard Working Americans and “I’m Comin’ Honey” by Shawn Camp, alongside the...
- 10/23/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The Foo Fighters, Beck, Stevie Nicks, and more will pay tribute to Tom Petty during a virtual festival, October 23rd, to mark what would’ve been the late musician’s 70th birthday (Petty’s actual birthday is October 20th).
The five-hour event will feature a mix of performances, testimonials, and tributes to Petty, and take place across two platforms, starting at 4:30 p.m. Et on SirusXM’s Tom Petty Radio, then moving to Twitch for a livestream at 7 p.m. Et (the audio from the livestream will be simulcast...
The five-hour event will feature a mix of performances, testimonials, and tributes to Petty, and take place across two platforms, starting at 4:30 p.m. Et on SirusXM’s Tom Petty Radio, then moving to Twitch for a livestream at 7 p.m. Et (the audio from the livestream will be simulcast...
- 10/20/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will put to use some of the most iconic instruments in the genre’s history for its upcoming “Big Night” fundraiser, set for Wednesday, October 28th. Included among the newly announced instrument and artist pairings are guitars once owned by Johnny Cash, Mother Maybelle Carter, and Jimmie Rodgers.
The artist lineup for the event, which will be hosted by Marty Stuart, runs the gamut from contemporary stars like Miranda Lambert and Kane Brown to Americana favorites like Keb’ Mo’ and Lucinda Williams,...
The artist lineup for the event, which will be hosted by Marty Stuart, runs the gamut from contemporary stars like Miranda Lambert and Kane Brown to Americana favorites like Keb’ Mo’ and Lucinda Williams,...
- 10/14/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will host an all-star virtual event on October 28th to raise funds for the museum and its programming. Among the artists slated to participate in “Big Night (At the Museum)” are Miranda Lambert, incoming Hall of Fame member Marty Stuart, and Rodney Crowell.
The Hall of Fame, located in downtown Nashville, will reopen to the public on September 10th, following several months of being closed due to the pandemic. As a result of the closure, the facility has suffered financial losses and...
The Hall of Fame, located in downtown Nashville, will reopen to the public on September 10th, following several months of being closed due to the pandemic. As a result of the closure, the facility has suffered financial losses and...
- 8/31/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Hank Williams Jr., Marty Stuart, and songwriter Dean Dillon are the 2020 class of inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Country Music Association made the announcement on Wednesday morning.
Williams will fill the “Veterans Era Artist” slot, Stuart will be inducted as the “Modern Era Artist,” and Dillon in the “Songwriter” category, which rotates every three years with the “Non-Performer” and “Recording and/or Touring Musician” inductees.
Williams’ induction comes nearly 60 years after his father — the still influential Hank Williams — was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Williams will fill the “Veterans Era Artist” slot, Stuart will be inducted as the “Modern Era Artist,” and Dillon in the “Songwriter” category, which rotates every three years with the “Non-Performer” and “Recording and/or Touring Musician” inductees.
Williams’ induction comes nearly 60 years after his father — the still influential Hank Williams — was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
- 8/12/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
PBS is preparing to debut a documentary channel on Amazon Prime Video that will feature nearly 900 hours of programming, including the complete filmography from acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns.
The public broadcaster’s PBS Documentaries channel will launch on Prime Video on August 4 and will cost $3.99 per month. Burns’ documentaries will also be made available on PBS Passport, a member benefit of subscribing to one’s local PBS station for $5 per month. The channel will require an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription and will only be available in the United States.
“We had long hoped to be able to have all of our films available in one place so the public would have access to the body of work,” Burns said in a statement. “We’re thrilled that this is now possible thanks to the efforts of PBS Distribution and Amazon to launch the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel and...
The public broadcaster’s PBS Documentaries channel will launch on Prime Video on August 4 and will cost $3.99 per month. Burns’ documentaries will also be made available on PBS Passport, a member benefit of subscribing to one’s local PBS station for $5 per month. The channel will require an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription and will only be available in the United States.
“We had long hoped to be able to have all of our films available in one place so the public would have access to the body of work,” Burns said in a statement. “We’re thrilled that this is now possible thanks to the efforts of PBS Distribution and Amazon to launch the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel and...
- 7/28/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Charlie Daniels, the Grammy-winning country singer and fiddler who scored crossover pop hits with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” “Uneasy Rider” and “In America,” died today after a massive stroke. He was 83. His publicist Don Murry Grubbs confirmed the news.
Daniels had a mild stroke in 2010 and was fitted with a pacemaker in 2013. He also beat prostate cancer in 2001.
Daniels, an iconic Country Music Hall of Famer who had nine gold or platinum albums, also played on Bob Dylan’s 1969 classic Nashville Skyline, and his group the Charlie Daniels Band appeared in the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy.
Born on October 26, 1936, in Wilmington, Nc, Daniels fronted 1960s group the Jaguars before going solo in 1968 and working as a session player in Nashville. His breakthrough came in the summer of 1973 with the story song “Uneasy Rider,” about a longhair’s harrowing encounter with some Mississippi locals.
The single hit No. 9 on the...
Daniels had a mild stroke in 2010 and was fitted with a pacemaker in 2013. He also beat prostate cancer in 2001.
Daniels, an iconic Country Music Hall of Famer who had nine gold or platinum albums, also played on Bob Dylan’s 1969 classic Nashville Skyline, and his group the Charlie Daniels Band appeared in the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy.
Born on October 26, 1936, in Wilmington, Nc, Daniels fronted 1960s group the Jaguars before going solo in 1968 and working as a session player in Nashville. His breakthrough came in the summer of 1973 with the story song “Uneasy Rider,” about a longhair’s harrowing encounter with some Mississippi locals.
The single hit No. 9 on the...
- 7/6/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
I am a proud, sixth-generation, born-and-raised Mississippian. I’ve traveled around the world singing songs, and though I hang my hat in Tennessee, I tell people I’m from Mississippi. And for all the pride I feel as a Mississippian, I also feel a twinge of anxiety when the word Mississippi leaves my lips.
For as far back as I can tell, there have been two Mississippis.
The Mississippi I know and love sounds like Charley Pride’s voice, Marty Stuart’s Telecaster, and B.B. King’s Lucille. It tastes...
For as far back as I can tell, there have been two Mississippis.
The Mississippi I know and love sounds like Charley Pride’s voice, Marty Stuart’s Telecaster, and B.B. King’s Lucille. It tastes...
- 6/30/2020
- by Charlie Worsham
- Rollingstone.com
Brad Paisley knows the Grand Ole Opry has its ghosts, but March 21 felt downright eerie. There was no anticipatory murmur of excitement from fans filing into the Grand Ole Opry House that night. No curtain going up. No applause marking the moment the show began. Instead, Paisley and fellow Opry members Vince Gill and Marty Stuart sat on stools six feet apart and looked out at nearly 4,400 dark seats, a few cameras and fewer than 30 crew members, only a handful visible at any given time.
If an empty Grand Ole Opry House always feels a little haunted to Paisley, “it feels really haunted when there’s no one there but you know everyone’s listening.”
That Saturday, the Grand Ole Opry was televised live for the first time in nearly a decade, thanks to Circle, a TV network created as a joint venture between Ryman Hospitality Properties, which owns the Opry,...
If an empty Grand Ole Opry House always feels a little haunted to Paisley, “it feels really haunted when there’s no one there but you know everyone’s listening.”
That Saturday, the Grand Ole Opry was televised live for the first time in nearly a decade, thanks to Circle, a TV network created as a joint venture between Ryman Hospitality Properties, which owns the Opry,...
- 6/30/2020
- by Brian Mansfield
- Variety Film + TV
A year before he died, Johnny Cash was the subject of a tribute album with some of music’s biggest names: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Dwight Yoakam all sang the works of Cash on 2002’s Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash (one of two Cash homage albums released that year). But it was Little Richard who delivered the most revved-up performance, a rambunctious rendition of “Get Rhythm,” the 1956 B-side to “I Walk the Line.”
Recorded during a six-hour session in Nashville, Richard, still vivacious at...
Recorded during a six-hour session in Nashville, Richard, still vivacious at...
- 5/10/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Tarence Ray and Tom Sexton from the Trillbilly Worker’s Party take Joe and Josh on a cinematic journey through the South.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Deliverance (1972)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Boogie Nights (1997)
In Bruges (2008)
The Birds (1963)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Blind Side (2009)
Moneyball (2011)
Next of Kin (1989)
Speed (1994)
Gravity (2013)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Hustle and Flow (2005)
Black Snake Moan (2007)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Black Snake (1973)
Mandy (2018)
Sling Blade (1996)
One False Move (1992)
The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
George Washington (2000)
Prince Avalanche (2013)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Halloween (2007)
Joe (2014)
All The Real Girls (2003)
Chrystal (2005)
The Accountant (2001)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Wild River (1960)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Ladykillers (1956)
Baywatch (2017)
Tin Men (1987)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Mad Max (1978)
Mad Max 2 – The Road Warrior (1980)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Coal Miner’s Daughter...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Deliverance (1972)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Boogie Nights (1997)
In Bruges (2008)
The Birds (1963)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Blind Side (2009)
Moneyball (2011)
Next of Kin (1989)
Speed (1994)
Gravity (2013)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Hustle and Flow (2005)
Black Snake Moan (2007)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Black Snake (1973)
Mandy (2018)
Sling Blade (1996)
One False Move (1992)
The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
George Washington (2000)
Prince Avalanche (2013)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Halloween (2007)
Joe (2014)
All The Real Girls (2003)
Chrystal (2005)
The Accountant (2001)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Wild River (1960)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Ladykillers (1956)
Baywatch (2017)
Tin Men (1987)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Mad Max (1978)
Mad Max 2 – The Road Warrior (1980)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Coal Miner’s Daughter...
- 5/5/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Don’t remember the supergroup the Buzzin’ Cousins? You’re not alone. Despite featuring five architects of Americana music, the collaboration remains a blind spot for most music fans, even those who may be hardcore devotees of the artists involved.
And what a group of names they were: John Mellencamp, Dwight Yoakam, Joe Ely, James McMurtry, and John Prine made up the Buzzin’ Cousins, Mellencamp’s lark of an answer to the Travelin’ Wilburys. The band’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-them status was by design, Mellencamp said.
”I wouldn’t expect an album or anything,...
And what a group of names they were: John Mellencamp, Dwight Yoakam, Joe Ely, James McMurtry, and John Prine made up the Buzzin’ Cousins, Mellencamp’s lark of an answer to the Travelin’ Wilburys. The band’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-them status was by design, Mellencamp said.
”I wouldn’t expect an album or anything,...
- 4/8/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Grammy-winning country music legend Joe Diffie has died from complications related to the coronavirus. He was 61.
The news of his demise was shared by his spokesperson on Sunday afternoon, reports variety.com.
"Grammy-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed away today, Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (Covid-19)," the statement read, adding: "His family respects their privacy at this time."
On Friday, Diffie became the first country star to go public with a coronavirus diagnosis. "I am under the care of medical professionals and currently receiving treatment. My family and I are asking for privacy at this time. We want to remind the public and all my fans to be vigilant, cautious and careful during this pandemic," read a statement attributed to him.
Diffie, a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 25 years, is a household name to any country fan who came of age listening to the format in the 1990s.
The news of his demise was shared by his spokesperson on Sunday afternoon, reports variety.com.
"Grammy-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed away today, Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (Covid-19)," the statement read, adding: "His family respects their privacy at this time."
On Friday, Diffie became the first country star to go public with a coronavirus diagnosis. "I am under the care of medical professionals and currently receiving treatment. My family and I are asking for privacy at this time. We want to remind the public and all my fans to be vigilant, cautious and careful during this pandemic," read a statement attributed to him.
Diffie, a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 25 years, is a household name to any country fan who came of age listening to the format in the 1990s.
- 3/30/2020
- GlamSham
The Grand Ole Opry has been a musical tradition for nearly 95 years, and on Saturday, March 21st, the cherished institution will make history once again, with a special live performance from three of its long-serving members. Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, and Marty Stuart will take the Opry stage — at a safe distance from one another — for an acoustic performance that will showcase the three men and their guitars.
Aided by a minimal production team, this unprecedented performance will be available through a variety of outlets, including, for the first time,...
Aided by a minimal production team, this unprecedented performance will be available through a variety of outlets, including, for the first time,...
- 3/20/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Through the lens of social distancing and quarantines, Jonathan Wilson’s new album, Dixie Blur, released March 6th, seems made for this moment. It’s a bittersweet, nostalgic record that recalls both a time and a place that’s impossible to revisit. For Wilson specifically, that’s his native Thomasville, North Carolina, but the message is universal: You can’t go home again.
“I went back to North Carolina not too long ago, to my hometown, and took some footage for a video,” says Wilson a few days before the LP’s release.
“I went back to North Carolina not too long ago, to my hometown, and took some footage for a video,” says Wilson a few days before the LP’s release.
- 3/19/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Margo Price analyzes the pitfalls of touring in the blazing new song “Twinkle Twinkle.” The singer also announced a new album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, out May 8th via Loma Vista Recordings.
Directed by Matthew Siskin, the video for the track features a psychedelic collage come to life, as magazine cut-outs — of planet Earth, cigarettes, television, and more — dance around Price as she sings in a shimmery silk blouse and red cowboy hat. “If it don’t break you/It might just make you rich,” she predicts over fuzzed-out guitar.
Directed by Matthew Siskin, the video for the track features a psychedelic collage come to life, as magazine cut-outs — of planet Earth, cigarettes, television, and more — dance around Price as she sings in a shimmery silk blouse and red cowboy hat. “If it don’t break you/It might just make you rich,” she predicts over fuzzed-out guitar.
- 3/11/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
An under-appreciated period of Johnny Cash’s lengthy recording career will be reexamined with the April 24th release of a seven-disc box set, The Complete Mercury Recordings 1986-1991, and a 24-cut “best of” collection representing highlights from this period. The CD set also includes several rare or previously unreleased tracks and an additional 20-track collection titled Classic Cash: Hall Of Fame Series (Early Mixes), featuring material mastered from tapes newly discovered in the Mercury vaults. While the vinyl version does not include this LP, it will be available as a...
- 3/6/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
The 2020 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees will be announced in just a few weeks. Which two country superstars will be selected this year for an induction ceremony slated for next October? Could this finally be the year for Tanya Tucker, who just won her first ever Grammy Awards after a career beginning back in the 1970s? Or will it be a more recent artist now eligible, such as Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw or Shania Twain?
SEEBiggest Grammy Winners of All Time: See The Most Awarded Artists
The criteria is pretty simple to get in but it’s an exclusive group since only 2-3 people are inducted each year. One person will be from the Modern Era category (an artist who came to prominence at least 20 years ago). Another will be from the Veterans Era (an artist who came to prominence at least 45 years ago). A third inductee would be a non-performer,...
SEEBiggest Grammy Winners of All Time: See The Most Awarded Artists
The criteria is pretty simple to get in but it’s an exclusive group since only 2-3 people are inducted each year. One person will be from the Modern Era category (an artist who came to prominence at least 20 years ago). Another will be from the Veterans Era (an artist who came to prominence at least 45 years ago). A third inductee would be a non-performer,...
- 2/18/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The Steve Miller Band and Marty Stuart and the Superlatives will embark on another trek together this summer, as the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and the country icon have booked another three months of dates for their 2020 Americana Tour.
The North American leg begins in Austin on June 13th — two days after Miller is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a New York gala on June 11th — and continues through the summer before concluding in Puyallup, Washington, on September 4th.
“Touring with Marty and the Superlatives is inspirational,...
The North American leg begins in Austin on June 13th — two days after Miller is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a New York gala on June 11th — and continues through the summer before concluding in Puyallup, Washington, on September 4th.
“Touring with Marty and the Superlatives is inspirational,...
- 2/13/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Twenty years ago, Marty Stuart found himself at a creative crossroads. Having straddled the lines of bluegrass, traditional country, rock, and even gospel music, Stuart shifted his priorities at the end of the decade and millenium, focusing his efforts on a project that would lead him, in his words, “to the outer edge of the awakenings of my true musical heart and soul.” The Pilgrim was a concept record based on the real life of Norman, a man in Stuart’s hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the tangled romantic tale...
- 1/15/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
While the Golden Globes logs in another year without a female directing nominee, it did break a brought in another male-dominated category. “Joker” composer Hildur Guðnadóttir received a nomination for Best Original Score, becoming the first woman in 10 years to be shortlisted in the category. Should she win, she’d be the category’s first solo female winner ever.
Guðnadóttir is only the eighth female nominee and just the third to be nominated by herself after Jocelyn Pook (1999’s “Eyes Wide Shut”) and Rachel Portman (2000’s “Chocolat”). All the others had co-composers, including Lisa Gerrard, the only woman to have multiple bids and the only female winner so far, having shared her “Gladiator” (2000) victory with Hans Zimmer.
Though Best Original Score was added at the 5th Golden Globe Awards in 1948, the category didn’t see its first female nominee until Marilyn Bergman was nominated with her partner and husband Alan...
Guðnadóttir is only the eighth female nominee and just the third to be nominated by herself after Jocelyn Pook (1999’s “Eyes Wide Shut”) and Rachel Portman (2000’s “Chocolat”). All the others had co-composers, including Lisa Gerrard, the only woman to have multiple bids and the only female winner so far, having shared her “Gladiator” (2000) victory with Hans Zimmer.
Though Best Original Score was added at the 5th Golden Globe Awards in 1948, the category didn’t see its first female nominee until Marilyn Bergman was nominated with her partner and husband Alan...
- 12/16/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
On Sunday, Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens and record executive Jerry Bradley were welcomed as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at the 2019 Medallion Ceremony, held in the museum’s Cma Theater. Reba McEntire was on hand to induct her Las Vegas co-headliners Brooks & Dunn with the Hall’s Modern Era honor. Ricky Skaggs and the McCrary Sisters sang in honor of musician/country comedian Stevens, who received the Hall’s Veteran Era honor. And Bradley, the record executive who signed Alabama and paved the...
- 10/21/2019
- by Hunter Kelly
- Rollingstone.com
Eric Church, Carrie Underwood, and Thomas Rhett will headline the 2020 Stagecoach Festival. The lineup for the Indio, California, country music gathering was announced by Midland following their performance of “Mr. Lonely” on Ellen. The throwback trio, who released their album Let It Roll in August, will also perform at Stagecoach.
Set for April 24 through 26th, Stagecoach has a roster that touches on all sides of the genre. Pop-country singer Brett Young shares space with East Nashville songwriter Nikki Lane; resurgent outlaw Tanya Tucker is on the bill with masked singer...
Set for April 24 through 26th, Stagecoach has a roster that touches on all sides of the genre. Pop-country singer Brett Young shares space with East Nashville songwriter Nikki Lane; resurgent outlaw Tanya Tucker is on the bill with masked singer...
- 10/15/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Musicianship was the theme of the evening for the second of Marty Stuart’s three Artist-in-Residence performances at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday. Titled “Psychedelic Jam-Bo-Ree” and featuring a multi-generational cast of guests, the emphasis felt tilted slightly more “jam” than “psych,” with Stuart and his band the Fabulous Superlatives flexing their instrumental chops.
In a way, the show was akin to Stuart’s annual Late Night Jam, held each June at the Ryman Auditorium during Cma Fest. That show mirrors the format of an old radio program,...
In a way, the show was akin to Stuart’s annual Late Night Jam, held each June at the Ryman Auditorium during Cma Fest. That show mirrors the format of an old radio program,...
- 9/19/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
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