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George Strait met Tom Petty for a brief few moments in 2017, when Petty was being honored as MusiCares Person of the Year. The country singer performed Petty’s “You Wreck Me,” off of 1994’s Wildflowers, in his honor, and it was a rare moment of nerves for Strait. “I was …

If you’ve seen one at-home quarantine performance, you’ve nearly seen them all. But Margo Price is determined to liven up the format with her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Nashville-based singer, who released her third album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, last week, filmed a stylish video for her …

This past February, the Jayhawks observed a band milestone — their 35th anniversary — in the way that any fan of the low-profile roots-rock group might expect them to celebrate a music industry achievement: by not acknowledging it all. Despite making music together for as long as Jagger and Richards …

Singer-guitarist Marcus King has announced the new livestream Four of a Kind, Live From Nashville, a full-production performance series that gets underway July 13th and concludes August 3rd. With a new theme for each of its four weekly episodes, the series will include such guest artists as Billy Strings, Mastodon‘s …

Chase Rice has responded to criticism he received after performing a concert that appeared to lack proper COVID-19 social distancing measures. Rice headlined an outdoor show on Saturday night for nearly 1,000 fans at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, a historic prison and concert venue in Petros, Tennessee. Photos and …

[A version of this story was originally published in 2015 for the 35th anniversary of Urban Cowboy.] Jon Cryer’s iconic Duckie Dale from the Eighties John Hughes classic Pretty in Pink might not seem to have a lot in common with a dance hall on the fringes of Southeast Texas. …

As graduation ceremonies begin to take place throughout the nation — albeit under strikingly different circumstances than last year’s — we look back at one of country music’s most acclaimed graduates, J.R. Cash, who 70 years ago on this date earned his Dyess High School diploma in the tiny town …

Nathaniel Rateliff sings in a creepy winter wonderland in the new video for “All or Nothing.”The soulful track is off his new album And It’s Still Alright, released last February. Directed by Doug Spencer, the clip features Rateliff’s silhouette against snowy mountains as a circus appears. A headless man balances …

CMT will remember the life and music of Kenny Rogers with a new concert special. CMT Giants Kenny Rogers: A Benefit for MusiCares airs Wednesday, April 8th, and features at-home performances by Rogers’ frequent collaborators Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie, along with a mix of country artists like Jason Isbell …

U.K. duo Ida Mae — the husband-and-wife team of Christopher Turpin and Stephanie Jean Ward —team up with T Bone Burnett for their new song “Baby I Need Driver,” part of Amazon Music’s “Produced By” series. It’s a piano-driven number that shows off the partners’ intimate harmonies and easy chemistry. …