The Outlaw Country Cruise is setting sail for its ninth year. The 2025 voyage will launch Feb. 22 and run through Feb. 28 with performances from Old Crow Medicine Show, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones, and more. This will mark the first Outlaw Country Cruise since the death of the ship’s regular emcee and performer, Mojo Nixon, who died during February’s cruise.
Asleep at the Wheel, Carlene Carter, the Earls Of Leicester, Jesse Dayton, Elizabeth Cook, Joshua Ray Walker, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers,...
Asleep at the Wheel, Carlene Carter, the Earls Of Leicester, Jesse Dayton, Elizabeth Cook, Joshua Ray Walker, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Lauren Morrow destroys the bogus imagery of social media on her debut full-length album People Talk, a record full of devastatingly honest and real-life lyrics delivered with a mix of vulnerability and confidence. “Nobody But Me” is the pinnacle, a song inspired by Morrow’s own experiences as a woman in the music business. Like the rest of the album, it boasts hints of Britpop (Morrow is a massive Oasis fan and once recorded a version of “Talk Tonight” with 400 Unit guitarist Sadler Vaden), but stands out for its piano-based structure.
- 5/30/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
On May 13, 1975, Ray Benson, leader of the Western-swing heroes Asleep at the Wheel, was readying his band to make their stage debut at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas, when he received the news that Bob Wills, the “King of Western Swing,” had died that morning in nearby Fort Worth.
“An AP reporter told me as I got off the bus,” the 72-year-old tells Rolling Stone backstage at the recent grand reopening of the Longhorn. “He says, ‘Are you going to cancel?’ I said, ‘Cancel? We’re going to glorify this and play his music.
“An AP reporter told me as I got off the bus,” the 72-year-old tells Rolling Stone backstage at the recent grand reopening of the Longhorn. “He says, ‘Are you going to cancel?’ I said, ‘Cancel? We’re going to glorify this and play his music.
- 4/14/2023
- by Garret K. Woodward
- Rollingstone.com
Country music artist Luke Bell’s cause of death has been confirmed after he passed away at age 32 on August 26, more than a week after he’d gone missing in Tucson, Arizona.
Bell died from an accidental fentanyl overdose, ABC 9 Kgun Tucson reported.
The local news outlet claimed the Pima County Medical Examiner’s office had recently released the autopsy report, adding that a passerby had found the singer unresponsive in a shaded area of a parking lot.
The outlet stated drug paraphernalia had been found at the scene.
Bell was reported missing on Aug. 20, with Saving Country Music reporting that he’d been struggling with bipolar disorder.
“Long periods would go by where nobody heard from Luke Bell. He would end up in hospitals, or at times, incarcerated,” the blog noted, reporting that his “mental state took a turn for the worse” in recent months.
Singer Joshua Hedley and...
Bell died from an accidental fentanyl overdose, ABC 9 Kgun Tucson reported.
The local news outlet claimed the Pima County Medical Examiner’s office had recently released the autopsy report, adding that a passerby had found the singer unresponsive in a shaded area of a parking lot.
The outlet stated drug paraphernalia had been found at the scene.
Bell was reported missing on Aug. 20, with Saving Country Music reporting that he’d been struggling with bipolar disorder.
“Long periods would go by where nobody heard from Luke Bell. He would end up in hospitals, or at times, incarcerated,” the blog noted, reporting that his “mental state took a turn for the worse” in recent months.
Singer Joshua Hedley and...
- 9/20/2022
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Brennen Leigh was visiting Nashville about a decade ago when the Minnesota-raised songwriter wandered into Robert’s Western World, a neon-lit honky-tonk in Nashville’s quickly evolving Lower Broadway entertainment district. Inside Robert’s, however, time stood still. Fried bologna sandwiches sizzled on the flattop, Pabst Blue Ribbon cans lined the bar, and twangy country music filled the narrow room.
“The band was playing Marty Robbins and classic country I really liked,” Leigh says. “I thought, ‘Well, this is heaven.’”
Little has changed at Robert’s since then. Located amid a sea of party buses,...
“The band was playing Marty Robbins and classic country I really liked,” Leigh says. “I thought, ‘Well, this is heaven.’”
Little has changed at Robert’s since then. Located amid a sea of party buses,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Country singer Luke Bell has been found dead in Tuscon, Arizona, at the age of 32.
Bell was believed to have been in Tuscon for a concert. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
The musician’s death was confirmed to the blog Saving Country Music by Bell’s close friend Matt Kinman.
Bell had been reported missing several days before he was found dead on Monday 29 August.
Originally from Cody, Wyoming, Bell got his break in country music when he signed a record deal with Nashville-based label Thirty Tigers in 2016.
Bell released his first self-titled album in 2012, before bringing out Don’t Mind If I Do in 2014.
During his career, he worked with artists such as Alabama Shakes, Margo Price and Langhorne Slim and played support slots for Willie Nelson and Dwight Yoakam.
In 2018, he won Best Honky Tonk Male at the Ameripolitan Music Awards.
Country music stars have...
Bell was believed to have been in Tuscon for a concert. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
The musician’s death was confirmed to the blog Saving Country Music by Bell’s close friend Matt Kinman.
Bell had been reported missing several days before he was found dead on Monday 29 August.
Originally from Cody, Wyoming, Bell got his break in country music when he signed a record deal with Nashville-based label Thirty Tigers in 2016.
Bell released his first self-titled album in 2012, before bringing out Don’t Mind If I Do in 2014.
During his career, he worked with artists such as Alabama Shakes, Margo Price and Langhorne Slim and played support slots for Willie Nelson and Dwight Yoakam.
In 2018, he won Best Honky Tonk Male at the Ameripolitan Music Awards.
Country music stars have...
- 8/31/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - Music
When it came time for Joshua Hedley to begin work on his second album, the polished Nineties country homage Neon Blue, the neo-traditionalist had only one guiding principle: make a record to be played on a pontoon boat.
“After these last couple years we’ve had, I felt like I didn’t want to hang my sad-sack, typical brand on people,” Hedley says. ‘I wanted to make a record that people could party to.”
Part of this was an artist’s desire to avoid self-repetition. Hedley’s 2018 debut, Mr. Jukebox,...
“After these last couple years we’ve had, I felt like I didn’t want to hang my sad-sack, typical brand on people,” Hedley says. ‘I wanted to make a record that people could party to.”
Part of this was an artist’s desire to avoid self-repetition. Hedley’s 2018 debut, Mr. Jukebox,...
- 4/23/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
SXSW’s second day was all about diversity. There were revelatory sounds from Africa, Turkey, and the U.K., all of them shot through with a sense of pride for the respective artists’ homelands. In some cases, that meant Texas and Tennessee, too. Here’s what we saw on the stage, in the streets, and even on a boat.
Dawn Richard’s Glittery Galaxy
We’re still feeling the reverberations from Richard’s set at the Container Bar, where she blew all the other Doc Martens showcase performers out of...
Dawn Richard’s Glittery Galaxy
We’re still feeling the reverberations from Richard’s set at the Container Bar, where she blew all the other Doc Martens showcase performers out of...
- 3/17/2022
- by Joseph Hudak, Griffin Lotz and Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
In a pivot as dramatic as Hulk Hogan turning heel, Joshua Hedley eschews the Eddy Arnold Countrypolitan sounds of his 2018 debut Mr. Jukebox for the equally glossy but more contemporary sheen of the Nineties on his new song “Neon Blue.” Driven by chicken-picked Telecaster, sawing fiddle, and a full-throated chorus, it’s the sonic equivalent of Ol’ Hed challenging Alan Jackson for the honky-tonk championship belt.
Due April 22, Neon Blue is Hedley’s first release for New West Records and was co-produced by Jordan Lehning and Skylar Wilson. Kyle Lehning,...
Due April 22, Neon Blue is Hedley’s first release for New West Records and was co-produced by Jordan Lehning and Skylar Wilson. Kyle Lehning,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
If this writing and singing gut-wrenching songs gig doesn’t work out, Jason Isbell might have a future in professional wrestling. On Tuesday, the Grammy winner released a particularly compelling promo ahead of All Elite Wrestling’s match between Cody Rhodes and Malakai Black, which airs Wednesday night on TNT.
Isbell introduces himself in the clip as “Folk singer. Songwriter. Guitar player. Fan of Cody Rhodes.” Rhodes, the son of the late wrestling great Dusty, had been ambushed by Black in previous Aew appearances and threatened with being euthanized like an aging horse.
Isbell introduces himself in the clip as “Folk singer. Songwriter. Guitar player. Fan of Cody Rhodes.” Rhodes, the son of the late wrestling great Dusty, had been ambushed by Black in previous Aew appearances and threatened with being euthanized like an aging horse.
- 8/3/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Justin Townes Earle likely died from a “probable drug overdose,” a spokesperson at the Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed to Rolling Stone on Tuesday. Police conducted a welfare check at the 38-year-old songwriter’s Nashville apartment on Sunday after one of Earle’s friends said they hadn’t heard from him since Thursday. Mnpd spokesperson Don Aaron told Rolling Stone that the Nashville Fire Department entered the residence and found Earle dead. An autopsy is pending.
Earle had struggled with substance abuse issues since he was 12, logging several stints in...
Earle had struggled with substance abuse issues since he was 12, logging several stints in...
- 8/25/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor goes it alone in the new song “Quarantined” — but he sure would like to have some company. A lighthearted ode to be being separated from the one you love, the track finds the man-out-of-time musician suffering through two full weeks without as much as an embrace.
“I wanna hug you and hold you tight/but I gotta wait 14 nights,” Secor sings in the ragtime number, lamenting the sad truth that “one little cough can kill us all.” He even works in a reference...
“I wanna hug you and hold you tight/but I gotta wait 14 nights,” Secor sings in the ragtime number, lamenting the sad truth that “one little cough can kill us all.” He even works in a reference...
- 5/15/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Joshua Hedley has played Robert’s Western World, the famous Nashville honky-tonk known for its old-school country music and fried bologna sandwiches, thousands of times since 2005, but until this past Tuesday night, he had never performed there to an empty dance floor.
After bars and honky-tonks shut down in Nashville’s Lower Broadway tourist district earlier this week, depriving play-for-tips musicians of their livelihoods, Hedley had the idea to take the Robert’s stage for a livestream, joining the scores of musicians who have been performing mini concerts from their homes.
After bars and honky-tonks shut down in Nashville’s Lower Broadway tourist district earlier this week, depriving play-for-tips musicians of their livelihoods, Hedley had the idea to take the Robert’s stage for a livestream, joining the scores of musicians who have been performing mini concerts from their homes.
- 3/19/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- 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
It’s been eight years since the Raconteurs came together for a live performance, and on Saturday night, as part of Third Man Records’ 10-year anniversary party, Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler reunited to kick off their forthcoming LP, Help Us Stranger, with a tight set of songs new and old that show the foursome hasn’t rusted a bit in their time off. After a sweet introduction from White’s mother Teresa Gillis, the foursome launched into fan favorite “Consoler of the Lonely” — the same...
- 4/7/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
The Raconteurs will perform their first live show in eight years when Third Man Records celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Nashville home base with an all day festival, April 6th.
Along with the Raconteurs, the bill boasts Lillie Mae, the Gories, Detroit Cobras, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, the Dirtbombs, Soledad Brothers, Craig Brown Band, Todd Albright and Teddy and the Rough Riders. There will also be special DJ sets by Kills and Dead Weather vocalist Alison Mosshart, Margo Price, Joshua Hedley, Carla Azar and Dave Buick.
Tickets for Third Man...
Along with the Raconteurs, the bill boasts Lillie Mae, the Gories, Detroit Cobras, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, the Dirtbombs, Soledad Brothers, Craig Brown Band, Todd Albright and Teddy and the Rough Riders. There will also be special DJ sets by Kills and Dead Weather vocalist Alison Mosshart, Margo Price, Joshua Hedley, Carla Azar and Dave Buick.
Tickets for Third Man...
- 3/12/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Nashville based singer-songwriter Cale Tyson gets back to basics for the new Narcissist Ep, out February 1st. And with the song “Red Blooded Fools,” the spartan set (for which all titles are stylized in lowercase) focuses on contemplation.
Written and recorded over a productive three-day period in Tyson’s bedroom, each of the Ep’s four tracks is laid bare with minimalist production. Tyson handles most of the parts himself, including layering his own vocals. For the Texas-bred former trad-country stalwart, it’s another step away from what was beginning...
Written and recorded over a productive three-day period in Tyson’s bedroom, each of the Ep’s four tracks is laid bare with minimalist production. Tyson handles most of the parts himself, including layering his own vocals. For the Texas-bred former trad-country stalwart, it’s another step away from what was beginning...
- 1/17/2019
- by Chris Parton
- Rollingstone.com
Already on the bill at California’s Coachella and New York’s Governors Ball, Kacey Musgraves is set to perform at this June’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The in demand Golden Hour songwriter is one of many country and Americana artists highlighting the 2019 lineup, set for June 13th through 16th in Manchester, Tennessee.
The Grammy-nominated Musgraves, who made her Bonnaroo debut in 2013, makes her third appearance at the festival, part of a particularly stacked Saturday lineup. Musgraves’ fellow Texan Maren Morris — herself a Grammy nominee on the strength of...
The Grammy-nominated Musgraves, who made her Bonnaroo debut in 2013, makes her third appearance at the festival, part of a particularly stacked Saturday lineup. Musgraves’ fellow Texan Maren Morris — herself a Grammy nominee on the strength of...
- 1/8/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Country music videos in 2018 were a mix of the poignant and the empowering, as some clips movingly told end-of-life tales and others glamorously celebrated independence. Others still lampooned the very art of making videos. Here’s the 10 must-watch clips of the year.
John Prine, “Summer’s End”
A woman loses her life to opioids, leaving behind a young daughter and an elderly father. The aftermath is shown in a series of quick vignettes: an emotional breakdown at school; a trip to a fruit orchard; a family visitation at the gravesite.
John Prine, “Summer’s End”
A woman loses her life to opioids, leaving behind a young daughter and an elderly father. The aftermath is shown in a series of quick vignettes: an emotional breakdown at school; a trip to a fruit orchard; a family visitation at the gravesite.
- 12/21/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Jack White took my phone and locked it in a bag. To be fair, it was actually Yondr, a company that specializes in phone-free experiences, like White’s homecoming concert on Tuesday night at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. But the no-technology, no-distractions edict was clearly the famously analog musician’s idea. And a good one, it turns out.
Over four-and-a-half hours, three distinct acts soundtracked a dark arena that, without the glow of mobile devices, was nearly impossible to date. White’s set, guitar-heavy, up-tempo and anthemic, could have been...
Over four-and-a-half hours, three distinct acts soundtracked a dark arena that, without the glow of mobile devices, was nearly impossible to date. White’s set, guitar-heavy, up-tempo and anthemic, could have been...
- 11/21/2018
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Margo Price has been touring furiously behind her excellent second album All American Made, from three sold-out shows at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to her first dates in Australia and New Zealand, which she’s currently wrapping up. She’s not stopping anytime soon: she’s rolled out even more dates, announcing on Twitter that she will be “finishing the year off right” with a New Year’s tour with fellow country-rock badass Lilly Hiatt. The new series of shows kicks off December 27th in Washington, D.C., and will run through the 31st,...
- 10/17/2018
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Courtney Marie Andrews has announced a new run of dates later this fall that includes an extended group of shows supporting the rapidly rising R&B/gospel duo The War and Treaty along with supporting dates for other artists. On the trek, she’ll crisscross the Midwest and Northeast in late October and early November before heading to the United Kingdom for a series of headlining shows in December.
Andrews’ latest tour is in support of May Your Kindness Remain, her 2018 gospel-inflected breakout record, which was released in March. The...
Andrews’ latest tour is in support of May Your Kindness Remain, her 2018 gospel-inflected breakout record, which was released in March. The...
- 10/3/2018
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
When a Tennessee rainstorm cut short this year’s Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival, many of the lineup’s acts remained in the area, booking last-minute shows in Nashville and nearby Franklin. Today, 10 days after the event ground to a halt during the middle of Counting Crows’ Saturday-afternoon set, festival headliner Jack White has announced a local makeup show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on November 20th.
Joshua Hedley, who released his debut album, Mr. Jukebox, via Jack White’s Third Man Records in April, kicks off the three-band bill.
Joshua Hedley, who released his debut album, Mr. Jukebox, via Jack White’s Third Man Records in April, kicks off the three-band bill.
- 10/2/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
In a development as unfortunate as it is unsurprising, Kacey Musgraves is the only female artist up for Album of the Year at the 52nd annual Cma Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday. Musgraves — whose acclaimed third full-length Golden Hour is in the running with releases from Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett and Dierks Bentley — is also, by little coincidence, the only artist in that group that fans can still catch in the intimacy of a 686-capacity theater in Northern Alabama.
That was the case Saturday night at...
That was the case Saturday night at...
- 8/28/2018
- by Adam Gold
- Rollingstone.com
More than any other track on his debut album Mr. Jukebox, “Weird Thought Thinker” sums up the quirkiness of Joshua Hedley. The Nashville singer-songwriter and pristine-voiced crooner fully embraces the wandering vibe of the song in a new video. Filmed on the bus, backstage and in the clubs, the clip finds Hedley combating the loneliness of the road with his band and audience. But even then, it’s hard to keep the isolation at bay — as he discovers when begins a walk through the desert, complete with shimmering visions and hallucinations.
- 8/17/2018
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Pickathon celebrated its 20th anniversary this past weekend. To put this in sharp perspective, Portland, Oregon’s four-day musical shindig has been around longer than either Bonnaroo or Coachella, the two standard-bearers in American music festivals. But despite its age, Pickathon doesn’t attract the same kind of attention as its peers — and that’s by design. Tucked away on a farm nestled in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, it’s a hard-to-find festival, with some stages requiring literal hikes to access. But its ruggedness is part of the charm,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- Rollingstone.com
When Joshua Hedley moved to Nashville from his native Naples, Florida, with his fiddle in hand, he dreamed of playing the Grand Ole Opry. Earlier this spring, Old Crow Medicine Show member Cory Younts, a longtime friend of Hedley’s, dropped by the Wsm studios, the official Opry radio station, to tell Hedley he’d be making his Mother Church debut, an occasion that is chronicled in this new behind-the-scenes mini-documentary.
Hedley opens the video by discussing his love for the one-of-a-kind hiss of vinyl while playing an acoustic version...
Hedley opens the video by discussing his love for the one-of-a-kind hiss of vinyl while playing an acoustic version...
- 7/17/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Cale Tyson’s last LP, 2017’s horn-adorned Careless Soul, was an exploration into fleshed-out arrangements and Muscle Shoals melodies, informed by the Texan’s love for classic honky-tonk as much as his teenage obsession with Bright Eyes. Tyson’s often discussed his desire to strip things back and veer even deeper into the Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith school of contemplation, which he does strikingly on his new song, “What Doesn’t Kill You.”
Trading horns and pedal steel for some simple, echoing acoustic guitar, Tyson finds tenderness in simplicity...
Trading horns and pedal steel for some simple, echoing acoustic guitar, Tyson finds tenderness in simplicity...
- 7/12/2018
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
Backstage Sunday afternoon at the Stagecoach Festival, Garth Brooks half-heard a question being addressed to his wife, Trisha Yearwood, and jumped in. “Was this about women in country music and the lack of them right now? Hell, yeah, I want in on this,” he said. “I can tell you this: Boys are stupid. We just are… I miss (women’s) voices. We have plenty of space for them on country radio. Let’s get the females back here so our format becomes living and intelligent more than it is right now.”
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood backstage (Photo: Chris Willman)
Brooks’ sentiments are clearly shared by the fest’s producer, Goldenvoice, as Stagecoach typically presents a rosier and more inclusive picture of the genre each year than other purely commercial indicators would suggest. Sexism? Ageism? Authenticity-ism? It’s easy to imagine that none of these are problems afflicting country when...
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood backstage (Photo: Chris Willman)
Brooks’ sentiments are clearly shared by the fest’s producer, Goldenvoice, as Stagecoach typically presents a rosier and more inclusive picture of the genre each year than other purely commercial indicators would suggest. Sexism? Ageism? Authenticity-ism? It’s easy to imagine that none of these are problems afflicting country when...
- 4/30/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Margo Price, Lillie Mae, the Craig Brown Band and Joshua Hedley are digging down (literally) to their country roots for a one-of-a-kind music experience hundreds of feet underground.
The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development is teaming up with Jack White’s Third Man Records for a unique concert event on Sept. 29. The performance is part of an extension of the state’s Snapchat Concert Series, which launched last year, and their ongoing “The Soundtrack of America. Made in Tennessee” brand campaign.
White is set to host the event, which will take place at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, Tn. The venue...
The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development is teaming up with Jack White’s Third Man Records for a unique concert event on Sept. 29. The performance is part of an extension of the state’s Snapchat Concert Series, which launched last year, and their ongoing “The Soundtrack of America. Made in Tennessee” brand campaign.
White is set to host the event, which will take place at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, Tn. The venue...
- 9/12/2017
- by Nicole Sands
- PEOPLE.com
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