Luke Combs Honors The Late, Great Toby Keith By Walking Out To “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” at Oklahoma University Stadium Show

Luke Combs Honors The Late, Great Toby Keith By Walking Out To “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” at Oklahoma University Stadium Show

Luke Combs knows how to make an entrance. The country music superstar is currently out on his My Kinda Saturday Night Tour, which has already managed to break multiple attendance records. 97,367 fans were in attendance at his Ohio Stadium date back in April, so Combs now holds the record for the largest single-night concert attendance ever at the Columbus venue. The “Hurricane” singer went on to set another record at Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium when 92,045 fans packed the college […]

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Riley Green To Join ‘The Voice’ As A Judge For Season 30

Riley Green To Join ‘The Voice’ As A Judge For Season 30

Your newest judge on The Voice. Yesterday, Riley Green announced that he will be joining the show as judge on Season 30 of the reality singing competition show, where he will be joined by fellow judges Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine, and it’s not yet clear if John Legend will return as a judge for this next season. Riley shared the news on Instagram, along with a video of him listening to a voice note from Clarkson, where she welcomed […]

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REVIEW: John Jenkins “Restless Hearts”

John JenkinsJohn Jenkins Restless Hearts Liverpool-based UK singer-songwriter John Jenkins most recent musical tome, Restless Hearts, is an emotionally resonant album that blends folk, Americana, and country and explores themes of love, loss, faith, and the fleeting nature of time. A gifted song storyteller, Jenkins lyrically strips his songs down to the bare bones, like Ernest […]

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REVIEW: Jim Reynolds “Bird on a Wire”

Jim ReynoldsJim Reynolds – Bird on a Wire Jim Reynolds’ new album, Bird on a Wire, arrives as a lovingly crafted, deliberately retro-leaning collection shaped by an impressive cast of musicians and studio hands. Produced, engineered, and mastered by Frank Kennedy, whose warm, analogue‑friendly touch defines the record’s sonic character, the album features contributions from Tom […]

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Poem: Whenever I hear Neil Young

Neil YoungWhenever I hear Neil Young   It’s always a country fair after sunset and the lights of rides turning on one-by-one, twinkling  in harmony with a watermelon sky spilling sugar- pink into clouds jet, gold, silver-lined.   It’s shooting-stars, still hurricane time, approaching  autumn, a fork in the road. Couples rise in the sky on […]

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REVIEW: Abigail Lapell Sings Her Way to Motherhood, plus a Rockabilly Anthology

Abigail Lapell Sings Her Way to Motherhood, plus a Rockabilly Anthology Sometimes a whisper can pack more punch than a shout. Witness, for example, the music of Nick Drake—or the similarly understated folk recordings of Abigail Lapell, whose atmospheric work might also occasionally remind you of Pentangle, Fairport Convention, or early Donovan. The Toronto-based singer, […]

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