When the Key Western Fest kicks off Tuesday in Key West — the third music festival in as many weeks centered around the town’s Coffee Butler Amphitheater — it’ll feature a lineup that is unique among its country music peers. The bill is an all-women showcase of predominantly Nineties country stars.
“I’m so happy this festival has the balls, and ovaries, to offer a lineup like this,” Suzy Bogguss — who will share the stage with Wynonna Judd and Mickey Guyton — tells Rolling Stone. “I really cannot wait to see...
“I’m so happy this festival has the balls, and ovaries, to offer a lineup like this,” Suzy Bogguss — who will share the stage with Wynonna Judd and Mickey Guyton — tells Rolling Stone. “I really cannot wait to see...
- 1/29/2024
- by Josh Crutchmer
- Rollingstone.com
The Born & Raised Music Festival will return for its second year in 2022, bringing a musical lineup that’s concentrated with Red Dirt, Texas country, and left-of-center country sounds. Presented by Aeg, the festival sets up at Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds in Pryor, Oklahoma, from Sept. 16 to 18 and features headlining performances from Zach Bryan, Cody Jinks, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Bryan, who recently played at Stagecoach, will headline the festival’s opening Friday night and Jinks will do the same on Saturday, with Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd leading the final day’s lineup.
Bryan, who recently played at Stagecoach, will headline the festival’s opening Friday night and Jinks will do the same on Saturday, with Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd leading the final day’s lineup.
- 5/3/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
The Black Opry Revue, Joshua Ray Walker, Miko Marks, Asleep at the Wheel, Town Mountain, Sunny Sweeney, Kaitlin Butts, and James McMurtry are among the first batch of artists announced for AmericanaFest 2022. The annual celebration of roots music returns to venues around Nashville from Sept. 13 through 17.
The 89 artists announced on Wednesday marks just the initial dump of performers — hundreds typically play the festival. This year’s lineup also marks the official AmericanaFest debut of the Black Opry, a collective of Black country artists that, since loosely coming together for the...
The 89 artists announced on Wednesday marks just the initial dump of performers — hundreds typically play the festival. This year’s lineup also marks the official AmericanaFest debut of the Black Opry, a collective of Black country artists that, since loosely coming together for the...
- 4/13/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Todd Snider has announced dates for an extensive fall tour. The Nashville singer-songwriter’s Return of the Storyteller Tour begins July 24th with a sold-out event at Tennessee’s the Caverns.
Spanning more than 50 dates from which audio will be compiled for a live album, the Return of the Storyteller Tour will keep Snider on the road through early December. Stops along the way include Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse, New York’s Gramercy Theatre, and Seattle’s Washington Hall, plus multiple nights in Felton, California; Des Moines, Iowa; and Tomball,...
Spanning more than 50 dates from which audio will be compiled for a live album, the Return of the Storyteller Tour will keep Snider on the road through early December. Stops along the way include Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse, New York’s Gramercy Theatre, and Seattle’s Washington Hall, plus multiple nights in Felton, California; Des Moines, Iowa; and Tomball,...
- 7/21/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Cody Jinks and Zz Top will headline the first Born & Raised Music Festival, a new concert and camping event set for September 17th through 19th in Pryor, Oklahoma, at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds — known to metalheads as the home of Rocklahoma.
Billed as a “weekend of music and camping for the outlaw in all of us,” the lineup includes outlaw country artists, Americana singer-songwriters, and a heavy dose of Red Dirt bands. Blackberry Smoke, Lucinda Williams, Randy Rogers Band, Parker McCollum, Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, Jack Ingram,...
Billed as a “weekend of music and camping for the outlaw in all of us,” the lineup includes outlaw country artists, Americana singer-songwriters, and a heavy dose of Red Dirt bands. Blackberry Smoke, Lucinda Williams, Randy Rogers Band, Parker McCollum, Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, Jack Ingram,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Anna Vaus, “Girl in a Bar”
Poway, California, country singer Anna Vaus places you right on the stool next to her in her breezy new ballad “Girl in a Bar.” Written with and produced by Luke Laird,...
Anna Vaus, “Girl in a Bar”
Poway, California, country singer Anna Vaus places you right on the stool next to her in her breezy new ballad “Girl in a Bar.” Written with and produced by Luke Laird,...
- 3/29/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Mike and the Moonpies had just finished their gig at Antone’s in Austin last Thursday when the city began to freeze. The country band had plans to rendezvous at their producer’s studio in Wimberley, about 45 minutes southwest, to work on a new album.
All five Moonpies, along with their tour manager and merchandise seller, made it, but conditions quickly deteriorated over the weekend throughout much of the state of Texas. A sold-out show they had scheduled for Saturday in Luckenbach was scrapped, and soon the power at the compound went out.
All five Moonpies, along with their tour manager and merchandise seller, made it, but conditions quickly deteriorated over the weekend throughout much of the state of Texas. A sold-out show they had scheduled for Saturday in Luckenbach was scrapped, and soon the power at the compound went out.
- 2/19/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
For more than a year, the Turnpike Troubadours have been on what they have termed an indefinite hiatus. During that time, band co-founder and front man Evan Felker has kept a low profile, staying far away from media (social or otherwise), and distancing himself from the high-profile turmoil that dogged him and his band in 2018 and 2019.
On September 19th, the book Red Dirt: Roots Music, Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, at Home Anywhere, will be released worldwide. The book tells of how the Red Dirt music scene grew from...
On September 19th, the book Red Dirt: Roots Music, Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, at Home Anywhere, will be released worldwide. The book tells of how the Red Dirt music scene grew from...
- 8/13/2020
- by Josh Crutchmer
- Rollingstone.com
Texas group Mike and the Moonpies will celebrate the work of country songwriting great Gary Stewart on their new album, Touch of You – The Lost Songs of Gary Stewart. The band’s version of “Smooth Shot of Whiskey,” featuring Midland’s Mark Wystrach, is out now. The full album, which follows the Abbey Road project Cheap Silver and Solid Country Gold, will arrive May 28th.
Working closely with Stewart’s daughter, Shannon, and friend Tommy Schwartz, Moonpies frontman Mike Harmeier listened to unreleased demos from Stewart’s vault, choosing 10 that...
Working closely with Stewart’s daughter, Shannon, and friend Tommy Schwartz, Moonpies frontman Mike Harmeier listened to unreleased demos from Stewart’s vault, choosing 10 that...
- 5/26/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Ron Louie would do anything to catch a couple of songs.
Last fall, the country and roots music superfan persuaded his wife, Janine, to take a trip to Alabama to see Jason Isbell, one of his all-time favorite artists, headline a festival in Isbell’s hometown. After a full weekend of music, Louie still needed more. He discovered that if he and Janine hurried back to Nashville in time, they could catch Old Crow Medicine Show play a few songs at an in-store at Grimey’s record shop before catching...
Last fall, the country and roots music superfan persuaded his wife, Janine, to take a trip to Alabama to see Jason Isbell, one of his all-time favorite artists, headline a festival in Isbell’s hometown. After a full weekend of music, Louie still needed more. He discovered that if he and Janine hurried back to Nashville in time, they could catch Old Crow Medicine Show play a few songs at an in-store at Grimey’s record shop before catching...
- 4/13/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Live From Here host Chris Thile kickstarted a new digital series called “Live From Home,” featuring self-recorded performances of musicians around the globe as they find ways to create and share music in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Like virtually every large-scale performance in the country, Live From Here‘s upcoming shows have been postponed.
“We’re inside and not out there making music,” Thile explains in the video, recording from a closet at his family’s house. “So we thought we’d make music in here.”
Thile chose...
“We’re inside and not out there making music,” Thile explains in the video, recording from a closet at his family’s house. “So we thought we’d make music in here.”
Thile chose...
- 3/16/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Even though it will mean a huge dent in his income for the foreseeable future, Ron Gallo wants you to stay the fuck home.
That’s exactly what he did this past Saturday (and again on Sunday, for the European audience), after his show at Melted Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Broadcasting via Instagram Live from his home studio in Nashville, Gallo staged a concert he appropriately hashtagged “#staythefuckhome.”
“As artists, our livelihood depends on traveling around cramming as many people as possible in not always big spaces,...
That’s exactly what he did this past Saturday (and again on Sunday, for the European audience), after his show at Melted Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Broadcasting via Instagram Live from his home studio in Nashville, Gallo staged a concert he appropriately hashtagged “#staythefuckhome.”
“As artists, our livelihood depends on traveling around cramming as many people as possible in not always big spaces,...
- 3/16/2020
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
American Aquarium leader Bj Barham doubles down on his commitment to stay sober and follow his artistic impulses in “Long Haul,” the first preview of the group’s new album. Titled Lamentations and produced by Shooter Jennings, the North Carolina band’s follow-up to 2018’s political Things Change will be released May 1st via New West Records.
Mixing a bit of piano-driven Muscle Shoals groove with the beating heart of Bob Seger’s rock & roll, “The Long Haul” features Barham — now backed by a revamped lineup of Shane Boeker, Ryan Van Fleet,...
Mixing a bit of piano-driven Muscle Shoals groove with the beating heart of Bob Seger’s rock & roll, “The Long Haul” features Barham — now backed by a revamped lineup of Shane Boeker, Ryan Van Fleet,...
- 3/5/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
AmericanaFest grew to nearly South by Southwest proportions this year, with concerts seemingly going on all day long at venues, backyards, and parking lots across Nashville. Heavy hitters were everywhere, like Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker, and the Mavericks, who somehow shoehorned their big band onto two of Nashville’s tiniest stages: the Station Inn and Robert’s Western World. And rising artists, from Che Apalache to Marcus King Band, put in their time, playing gigs in the unrelenting heat of Tennessee’s late summer. Then there was Yola, the U.
- 9/16/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Freeman, Joseph Hudak and Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
Eileen Jewell’s lyrically rich “79 Cents,” Miranda Lambert’s new “Bluebird,” and Lady Antebellum guitarist Slim Gambill’s jazzy numbers journey “54321” make up this week’s list of the best country and Americana songs.
Jamie Lin Wilson, “Alice”
A tribute to an old neighbor who’s “pretty as a flower [and] tough as saddle leather,” Jamie Lin Wilson’s “Alice” tells the story of a tough Texas woman who farms the bottomlands. To vividly paint a picture of southeast Texas, she fills the song with chiming acoustics, pedal steel, and her own Lone Star State drawl.
Jamie Lin Wilson, “Alice”
A tribute to an old neighbor who’s “pretty as a flower [and] tough as saddle leather,” Jamie Lin Wilson’s “Alice” tells the story of a tough Texas woman who farms the bottomlands. To vividly paint a picture of southeast Texas, she fills the song with chiming acoustics, pedal steel, and her own Lone Star State drawl.
- 8/19/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
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