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What an honor for Garth Brooks. The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) has just announced that Garth will be honored as the next recipient of the Kris Kristofferson Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Nashville Songwriter Awards in September. According to the organization, the award is focused on artists and writers who have: “Bestowed to an

Accomplished singer-songwriter Valerie June‘s latest project will shine a new light on some of her favorite tracks from other iconic artists. June’s upcoming EP, Under Cover, is set for release on Aug. 26 via Fantasy Records. The eight-track project features an eclectic mix of songs hand-selected by the Tennessee native. Listeners will hear June’s versions of Gillian

Australia is such a wild place. Stunningly beautiful with wide variety of landscapes and climates… it’s an absolute bucket list place if you’ve never been. It also happens to be one of the least densely populated places in the world, with a large percentage of the country’s population on the eastern seaboard. But as for

April 6th of this year marked six years since we lost one of the country music greats, Merle Haggard. I was listening to some Merle and reading some of his most famous quotes over the decades when I came across a gem of an interview he did with InForum back in 2015. When asked about

Kip Moore has been on the road pretty much non-stop since most of the COVID mandates were lifted across the country. Now, it seems like pretty much every state is back to normal in terms of concert protocol and special regulations to get into the show, but back when artists weren’t able to be out on

With the release of Luke Combs’ third career studio album, it got me thinking about this conversation from 2019… In an interview with HITS Daily Double, Scott Borchetta opened up on the state of country music, particularly the genre’s young stars, arguing that country music doesn’t have any true headliners under the age of 30,

NASCAR is in Music City. The Cup Series heads to the Nashville Superspeedway for the Ally 400 this weekend, with my man Ryan Blaney looking to secure his first win of the season. Why is Ryan Blaney my man? Because he’s a big time country music guy. A fan of Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, Cody

Any time you can get an hour and a half of conversation with Sturgill Simpson, you have to listen. Sturgill stopped by the Trillybilly Worker’s Party podcast a couple years back, and amid conversations about growing up in Kentucky, acting, politics, Kanye West, and his Sound & Fury record, they discussed something near and dear

As soon as Luke Combs released the tracklist for his new album, Growin’ Up, listeners were quick to notice his collaboration with Miranda Lambert (the only one on the album). For many of us, the duet took a quick lead as our favorite, and also solidified that Lambert truly is the queen of country music

Snoop, McConaughey and Willie… does it get any better than that? I mean, go ahead and pick three guys you want to grab a beer (or smoke a joint) with, and if you don’t have at least some combination of Snoop, Willie or McConaughey on your list, you’re doing it wrong. On an old episode

New music Friday is always a million times better when we get new stuff from Kip Moore. Kip just released the second single, “Fire On Wheels,” from his forthcoming (and still unofficially announced) fifth studio album. He had previously teased a short clip of it on TikTok earlier this week. (No, hell hasn’t actually frozen

Bocephus and the Duckman… Riley Green opened up a few shows for Hank Williams Jr. this past weekend, and at a stop in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, they teamed up for a rousing rendition of Hank Jr.’s 1982 classic hit, “Family Tradition.” The song was originally released in 1979 as the fourth and final single

On his latest single “The Ship,” which The Boot is exclusively premiering today (June 23), celebrated singer-songwriter Andrew Combs explores the uncertainty of life, death and what comes after. “This is a song about losing a friend to an overdose,” Combs tells The Boot. “After on and off again sobriety, he finally lost his battle with addiction.

“Daddy, can that car float on the water?” “Uh… no?” My son pointed out a “Jesus Fish” on the bumper of the car in front of us and assumed it could, therefore, swim like a fish. “Then why does it have a fish on the back?” “Uh…it’s because they pray to Jesus. Like us….” “Why?”

I know I’m not the only 30-something country music fan that grew up listening to a little punk rock. I grew up on a steady dose of Alan Jackson, George Strait, Reba, Brooks and Dunn and the rest of the ’90s country greats, but there was a time when I got into bands like Blink

A brand new collection of previously unreleased live recordings from Kris Kristofferson will transport listeners back to an unforgettable night of music at one of the most iconic honky-tonks in history. Kris Kristofferson Live at Gilley’s – Pasadena, TX: September 15th, 1981, set for release on Sept. 2 via New West Records, includes 15 previously unreleased recordings

For someone who seems to be a true angel on earth, Mrs. Dolly Parton sure gets a bad rap just for bleaching her dang hair… Of course, she’s said many times how she first modeled her look after the town tramp she used to see around as a kid growing up in east Tennessee, and

Charles Wesley Godwin is one of the best, if not the best, singer/songwriters up and coming in the independent country music scene. The West Virginia native knows how to tell vivid stories about growing up in Appalachia, to the point where you can visualize it in your head like a movie. Although the man is

I feel like speak-singing has gotten a little bit of a bad rap recently because many country fans are not in love with the pop and rap influences on radio country. Songs like “Dirt Road Anthem” by Jason Aldean and almost anything by Sam Hunt (though I will defend his music as having more substance

At first blush, it doesn’t make sense for country music and New York City to work. But Whitney Lockert makes it happen. A stalwart veteran of the New York country scene (such as it was) in the 2010s, Lockert returned home to California a few years ago. His upcoming album, Long Way to California (out