Music

Back in the saddle, eh? As we start to approach the summer, a number of artists are beginning to announce full blown tours coming this fall. We saw artists like Kenny Chesney, Reba, and a handful of festivals announce cancellations, but on the other hand, artists like Eric Church, Kip Moore, Dierks Bentley and more,

Ahead of Alan Jackson‘s daughter Ali’s 2020 wedding, the country legend found himself compelled to write a song. “I wasn’t trying to write [it]. It just kind of came out,” the singer shares with Billboard. “I wrote it and they said, ‘Let’s do a little recording and we’ll play it at Ali’s reception.'” Thanks to Jackson’s

Alan Jackson and George Jones… COME ON WITH IT. I mean you want country music, THIS is some country damn music. Written by Jerry Chesnut, “A Good Year For The Roses” was released in 1970, the lead single from his 1971 album, George Jones With Love. A decade later, it would go on to be

Darius Rucker’s new music video for his latest single, “My Masterpiece,” immediately creates a romantic mood with the sound of waves crashing on the shore and low-key vocals. The black-and-white treatment sets the scene for a timeless love story. As the instruments come in, a woman adrift at sea starts to float toward a private

Luke crashing the party at his own bar. Nashville fully reopened last night for the first time in over a year, with the city dropping all COVID restrictions and mask mandates. And lower Broadway definitely showed out. Amidst all the drunk bachelorettes and people getting in fights and passing out in bathrooms, Luke Bryan also

Songwriter-artist trio Nashvillains cruise the Tennessee backroads in their new “Who Don’t” music video. The band says clip, premiering exclusively on The Boot, allowed them a chance to lean into their country roots. Directed by Brian Vaughn and shot in Franklin, Tenn., the video finds the group living it up at a field party, enthralling a

Give me a minute… I need to pick my jaw up off the floor. Every so often, there are these unique moments in your life when you’re completely humbled. Whether it’s in school or work, maybe even a hobby or craft, somebody comes along and reminds you that you ain’t shit. Enter… Taj Farrant. The

Kelsea Ballerini takes it back to her hometown, literally, for her “Half of My Hometown” music video. The scenes are shot at her high school, in streets near her childhood home, and all over her growing up stompin’ grounds. The story is set with a young Ballerini packing up a moving truck to leave her hometown. You can see

The Steel Woods just dropped an absolutely incredible new album, All Of Your Stones. After the tragic passing of the bands founding guitarist, Jason “Rowdy” Cope in January of this year, the southern rock band dedicated the album to him. Carrying Rowdy’s spirit through and through, it’s a worthy tribute to a beloved friend and

Rising folk singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun co-wrote her new song “Bigger Man” with Maren Morris — and enlisted the country star to sing with her on it. The pair dropped the track on Friday morning (May 14). Joining Oladokun and Morris as co-writers on “Bigger Man” are Laura Veltz and Jimmy Robbins. Morris, Robbins and Veltz recently

What. A. Song. Out of all of the songs in Willie Nelson’s epic catalog, and there’s a lot of them, “Sad Songs And Waltzes” is easily one of my favorites. A cut from Willie’s 1973 Shotgun Willie album, it was later recorded by the great Keith Whitey in 1982 for his album of the same name (which

Chris Stapleton‘s radio singles are never straight-ahead, mainstream, made-for-radio hits. He’ll often blend an extra dose of soul or R&B into his country, and those stylistics are once again on full display in “You Should Probably Leave,” his latest submission to country radio. Still, Stapleton wrote the song with two co-writers with serious mainstream radio

“Sweet country music, where have you gone?” Funny you should ask, Alan… Nineties country legend, mustache afficaniado, and depending on who you talk to… the damn GOAT of country music, Mr. Alan Jackson has a brand new album on the way, one affectionately titled, Where Have You Gone. What’s the something that’s missing in that

Summer Dean isn’t sugar-coating it: The only reason the protagonist of her new song “You’re Lucky She’s Lonely” is getting anywhere with the woman who’s caught his eye is because she’s heartbroken and lovesick. “Just make your move / You’ve got nothin’ to prove / You’re lucky she’s blue,” the born-and-raised Texan sings in the first

Welp, that’ll be the end of that. American Idol hopeful Caleb Kennedy, the country rocker who’s performed everything from Chris Stapleton to Willie Nelson on the show, is officially leaving after a rather inexcusable video surfaced on social media. The video, which 16-year-old Kennedy says is from when he was younger, shows Kennedy alongside one of

There are dozens and dozens of versions of the gospel classic “I’ll Fly Away,” but Randall King‘s rendition offers a different look at Albert E. Brumley’s 1929 hymn than country fans are used to. What is often a more uptempo, bluegrass-tinged song becomes a slowed-down, twangy reflection. It’s not necessarily any less hopeful than the more

Back in the ’90s, we saw Willie Nelson create a legendary song and commercial for Taco Bell’s brand new “Steak Burrito Supreme,” and he even did a Pizza Hut commercial with Johnny Cash himself. Now the master of commercials himself, Shotgun Willie, is back in the commercial game again with a brand new environmentally friendly

Kip Moore plays the part of good-timing bus driver for a collection of happy-go-lucky eccentrics in the music video for his new single, “Good Life.” The singer’s return to the road for the first time in over a year — ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — is cause for celebration, and in the “Good

I can’t get enough of Randall King country-fying all these pop and hip-hop songs on TikTok. He recently did one of Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa” that was awesome, and now, he’s doing a country version of pop singer Edwin McCain’s “I’ll Be.” I know some of my ladies will relate to this, because the first

Meghan Patrick offers a love ballad with a twist in her latest release, “Mama Prayed For,” a song that recognizes that she might not necessarily be the kind of girl a mom might hope her son will choose as his partner. Between a tough attitude, a few vices and a hard-edged and hard-to-get-to-know personality, Patrick says she’s hardly a