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UPDATE:Carrie Underwood has shared an update on the injuries she suffered in a fall at her home in November. Writing to her fan club on New Year’s Day, Underwood said she received 40 to 50 stitches to her face and that her appearance may be altered. “When I am ready …

To coincide with Election Day, Drive-By Truckers have released the new song “The Perilous Night,” a politically charged polemic that follows the pointed commentary of the group’s 2016 opus American Band. Much like the band’s song “What It Means,” “The Perilous Night,” written by Patterson Hood, is a deeply literal …

In the history of country music, where grisly murder ballads and laments to dead mothers, children and dogs are commonplace, every day carries a little bit of the ghoulish Halloween spirit with it. There is probably no more twisted, demented and just plain odd a country song than “Psycho,” a …

Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen’s musical partnership is well-chronicled, with 2017 marking the 10th anniversary of the Texas country pair’s Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour. The two singers always like getting more friends in on the action, so this December they’ll be hitting the road for a run …

Like a pair of rapid-talking auctioneers, Keith Urban and Chris Janson tackled a cover of John Michael Montgomery’s “Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident”) at the Grand Ole Opry earlier this month. The one-off performance took place on October 10th, while both singers were part of a stacked Opry bill …

Any good bluegrass band is worth its weight in cover songs, so it’s no surprise to see Infamous Stringdusters returning to the fertile territory of their 2015 EP Undercover. The Virginians have a sequel, Undercover Vol. 2, on the way, which includes their version of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” …

In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas, singer-songwriter and gun control advocate Rosanne Cash has penned a powerful op-ed piece in the New York Times in which she encourages fellow country and Americana artists to stand up to the political …

The country world is still reeling from the shocking loss of Montgomery Gentry’s Troy Gentry, who died September 8th in a helicopter crash in New Jersey. Singer Jason Aldean found a way to pay his respects the following night at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, covering …

“I was going to be completely elated if we sold 50,000 records and I got to make another record,” Chris Stapleton admits during the newest episode of Walking the Floor, talking to Chris Shiflett about his own expectations for 2015’s Traveller. One of the longer podcasts in Walking the Floor‘s …

Forty years ago, Waylon Jennings released “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love),” a country Number One and crossover hit with pop audiences even though – according to lore – he’d never been to the one-horse town that bore its name. Now Cody Jinks and Paul Cauthen, two modern-day …