Yearly Archives: 2026

Is country music in the middle of a full-on, female-led comedy renaissance? Continue reading…

Here’s what we know about Lainey Wilson’s wedding, from the dress to the guest list to their first dance. Continue reading…

Everyone try to look cool. Don’t act too excited or go apoplectic and draw too much attention to yourself. But there is new, unheard music on the way from the King of the Honks Tonks himself, Gary Stewart.

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New music, a new house, a new job and a steamy onscreen kiss all make this timeline. We’ll be sure to add as soon as they get married. Continue reading…

Ryan Bingham They Call Us The Lucky Ones Ryan Bingham’s first album in seven years, They Call Us the Lucky Ones, arrives with the weight of a long afterglow. Seventeen years have passed since “The Weary Kind” first introduced a wider audience to his deliciously scratchy baritone through Crazy Heart, a song so all-conquering it […]

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Greensky Bluegrass photo by Dylan Langille Greensky Bluegrass on The Making of The Documentary Film Find Ourselves Lost: The Iceland Sessions In April, the progressive bluegrass band Greensky Bluegrass took part in the release of the first documentary film capturing the band, which was filmed during the recording of 2024’s The Iceland Sessions EP, featuring […]

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Well, is this not an excuse to get the girlies together if we’ve ever heard one!? For our final live interview aboard Cayamo, we arranged a check-in with some of our favorite folks to talk about the state of Folk Music. Our panel included country artist and host of Apple Music’s ‘Color Me Country Radio’ Rissi Palmer, Canadian sweethearts Rose Cousins and Kaïa Kater, and Jobi Riccio, a self-proclaimed “rizzler.” We spoke about the function of folk songwriting, the hope and confidence of Gen Z, the inspiration taken from elders, and the fact that there are Black people in the future (thank you, Alice Randall).

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Carly King Loving You is Easy Nashville singer songwriter Carly King’s new album Loving You is Easy is a welcome addition to the Americana library this year. An elegant, lovely debut, this album explores human relationships and the experiences that craft a person into who they are, with hushed guitar and mandolin supporting Carly’s gentle and […]

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Alejandro Rose-Garcia, a.k.a. Shakey Graves, launched his career in 2011 with the DIY exemplar, Roll the Bones. His next album, And the War Came, crept toward higher production values, still toeing a lo-fi line. With Can’t Wake Up, Graves constructed a well-produced, fully instrumented, and rock-leaning

An argument is circular. 

So, too, is Ramsey Thornton’s song about one. The chiming fingerstyle guitar, the jazz-educated percussion, and the vocal melodies of “Chase After You” double back on each other, never quite resolving. There’s a clear sense of a damaged relationship