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How Shaboozey's A Bar Song (Tipsy) became the unexpected smash hit of 2024
1 week, 4 days ago

How Shaboozey's A Bar Song (Tipsy) became the unexpected smash hit of 2024

BBC  

How Shaboozey's A Bar Song became the unexpected smash hit of 2024 Getty Images As Shaboozey's A Bar Song becomes one of the country's most celebrated tracks in 2024, what made this tribute to good-time drinking resonate so much this year? A Bar Song not only became the longest-running number one song on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in the publication's …

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How Shaboozey’s “Bar Song (Tipsy)” tied “Old Town Road’s” greatest Billboard record.
54 years, 11 months ago

How Shaboozey’s “Bar Song (Tipsy)” tied “Old Town Road’s” greatest Billboard record.

Slate  

The week ending July 13, 2024, was a long time ago. The arrival of GNX, the surprise album–slash–victory lap from the man affectionately known as K-Dot, sends a slew of Kendrick tracks onto the Hot 100, including “Squabble Up,” which enters the flagship songs chart in the top spot, ejecting “A Bar Song.” For those who are just becoming acquainted …

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"Ain’t nobody kicking me!": Shaboozey went to the CMAs to be honored; they mocked him instead
1 month ago

"Ain’t nobody kicking me!": Shaboozey went to the CMAs to be honored; they mocked him instead

Salon  

Hip-hop and alt-country star Shaboozey had one of the biggest breakouts in music this year. People online came to Shaboozey's defense like country music editor Billy Dukes who said fans deserved an explanation for "Trent Willmon’s Shaboozey comment. A viral post on X also said, "The fact that Shaboozey didn’t win a single Country Music Award despite having the #1 …

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Is Post Malone headlining Coachella 2025? His newly announced tour dates seem to say so
1 month ago

Is Post Malone headlining Coachella 2025? His newly announced tour dates seem to say so

LA Times  

Post Malone, seen at last year’s Stagecoach Country Music Festival, will return to Indio in 2025 — seemingly as part of the Coachella festival lineup. The “Better Now” and “I Had Some Help” singer will return to the iconic Inland Empire music festival next year to kick off his Big Ass Stadium Tour, announced Tuesday. Malone, who made his Coachella …

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BoykinZ, the rising country music sister act, are all about connecting
1 month, 1 week ago

BoykinZ, the rising country music sister act, are all about connecting

LA Times  

One of my favorite songs of all time is “If You’re Reading This” by country superstar Tim McGraw. Following the song’s debut, McGraw said : “This little 5-year-old blond girl came up and kind of tugged on my shirt and said, you know, ‘You just sang a song about my dad, didn’t you?’ I just hope no matter what side …

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Dwight Yoakam, music’s biggest fan, sings the praises of his influences on ‘Brighter Days’
1 month, 1 week ago

Dwight Yoakam, music’s biggest fan, sings the praises of his influences on ‘Brighter Days’

LA Times  

Through the window of an upper floor office in West Hollywood, the sky changed from cyan to navy and then indigo blue. Yoakam stretched his arm toward me and played “Set You Free This Time,” the third song on the Byrds’ 1965 album “Turn! “Zach Bryan in a little weird way sounds a bit like Post when he’s unencumbered by …

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Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' lifts her to top of Grammy nominations list
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' lifts her to top of Grammy nominations list

Hindustan Times  

By Lisa Richwine Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' lifts her to top of Grammy nominations list LOS ANGELES, - Superstar singer Beyonce dominated the list of Grammy Award contenders unveiled on Friday, earning 11 nods including an album of the year nomination for her venture into country music, "Cowboy Carter." The two male artists nominated in the album field were rapper Andre …

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Beyoncé, Shaboozey and Post Malone topped country in 2024. How will Grammy voters respond?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Beyoncé, Shaboozey and Post Malone topped country in 2024. How will Grammy voters respond?

The Independent  

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Campfire Country: A Celebration of Australian Country Music
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Campfire Country: A Celebration of Australian Country Music

ABC  

ABC Country is celebrating the iconic Australian country music songbook, with the music that weave through eras, generations and genres within the patchwork of Australian music. You'll hear classic Australiana songs from John Williamson, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kasey Chambers, Paul Kelly, The Bushwhackers as well as emerging voices like Watty Thompson, Andy Golledge, Loren Ryan, Claire Anne Taylor, Casey Barnes and …

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Ballarat art gallery's guitar exhibition set to boost music tourism in gold rush town
2 months ago

Ballarat art gallery's guitar exhibition set to boost music tourism in gold rush town

ABC  

A pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road, London. The exhibition, Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the Guitar, features 40 instruments from America's ever-touring National Guitar Museum, tracing the instrument's history from its earliest incarnation to its shredding electric iteration. The gallery's director Louise Tegart said the exhibition came about serendipitously when a former colleague introduced her to HP …

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Reba McEntire on mentors, bridging generations and her TV return with 'Happy's Place'
2 months ago

Reba McEntire on mentors, bridging generations and her TV return with 'Happy's Place'

NPR  

Reba McEntire on mentors, bridging generations and her TV return with 'Happy's Place' NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with country music icon Reba McEntire about her new NBC sitcom Happy's Place, about a woman who inherits her father's restaurant with a half sister she's never met. SHAPIRO: Reba McEntire also has a new sitcom on NBC called "Happy's Place." SHAPIRO: You …

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Carly Pearce on country music’s big year and that viral moment with a heckler
2 months, 1 week ago

Carly Pearce on country music’s big year and that viral moment with a heckler

LA Times  

Carly Pearce is fast becoming country music’s queen of the clapback. In June, after social media users speculated that she was into Satan because she’d posted a photo in which her tour bus appeared to be parked in a space marked 666, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter took to X to proclaim, “I am a devout Christian who takes PRIDE in using …

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Megan Moroney’s country songs reveal the tears behind a ‘sparkly and glittery’ life
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Megan Moroney’s country songs reveal the tears behind a ‘sparkly and glittery’ life

LA Times  

Megan Moroney’s first hit song chronicled a journey that this Georgia native never thought she’d take: In “Tennessee Orange,” which reached No. This past summer she toured stadiums across the country with Kenny Chesney, and on a recent morning she’s on the phone from Cambridge, England, before a headlining gig in support of her sophomore album, “Am I Okay?” It’s …

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Luke Bryan sees no message in Beyoncé’s CMA Awards snub: ‘A lot of great music’s overlooked’
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Luke Bryan sees no message in Beyoncé’s CMA Awards snub: ‘A lot of great music’s overlooked’

LA Times  

Luke Bryan is venturing a guess at why Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” was snubbed by the Country Music Assn. The “American Idol” host went on to defend the CMA voting body, saying, “They vote what they think should make it” and inevitably “a lot of great music’s overlooked.” Dolly Parton, who is featured on “Cowboy Carter” in a track titled “Dolly …

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Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter who changed country music, dies at 88
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter who changed country music, dies at 88

LA Times  

He disliked being called a poet and thought, more or less accurately, that he sang like a barking bullfrog, but Kris Kristofferson did more to change country music than a legion of golden-throated balladeers. “Because he changed everything.” Meticulously crafting songs that were mournful and fatalistic without being mawkish, Kristofferson invited listeners to share the regrets of a man who …

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Ashleigh Dallas 'Setting Suns'
3 months, 1 week ago

Ashleigh Dallas 'Setting Suns'

ABC  

We're always highlighting great new music added to the ABC Country playlist. Five time Country Music Award Of Australia winning artist, Ashleigh Dallas, is proud to unveil her sixth studio album, Setting Suns. The new record, crafted with the expert touch of Country Music Award Of Australia winning producer Brett Dallas, marks a pivotal moment in Ashleigh’s musical journey. The …

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Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' snubbed by Country Music awards
3 months, 1 week ago

Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' snubbed by Country Music awards

Raw Story  

Beyonce did not receive a Country Music Association awards nomination when the nods for the 58th edition were announced Monday, even though her "Cowboy Carter" album proved a cultural phenomenon upon release this year. Beyonce's "Cowboy Carter" is a full-throated ode to her southern U.S. roots, a rollicking revue that also deals a vital history lesson on the Black lineage …

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Kacey Musgraves says a past boyfriend helped her become more accepting : Wild Card with Rachel Martin
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Kacey Musgraves says a past boyfriend helped her become more accepting : Wild Card with Rachel Martin

NPR  

Kacey Musgraves says a past boyfriend helped her become more accepting A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: I've been thinking a lot about authenticity lately. Musgraves: Well, one of the best compliments that I've ever received in terms of my music and who I am in the world is that occasionally people will come up to me and …

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From Nigeria to Nashville, we’re all in Shaboozey country now
3 months, 2 weeks ago

From Nigeria to Nashville, we’re all in Shaboozey country now

LA Times  

Back in August the 29-year-old country singer Shaboozey gave the packed audience at the Grammy Museum some advice for staying healthy on the road. “I think there’s the folk tales, the storytelling aspect that you see in Western African music that’s also a very big part of country music,” Shaboozey said. “It’s just a staple of country music, the drinking …

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Nashville hitmaker Hardy on love songs, trauma therapy and Post Malone
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Nashville hitmaker Hardy on love songs, trauma therapy and Post Malone

LA Times  

“There’s so much more to talk about than what you can talk about in country music,” Hardy says. !” It’s a full-body immersion into the post-grunge hard rock of the late ’90s and early 2000s from one of Nashville’s most successful songwriters: a five-time Academy of Country Music Award winner whose many hits include Blake Shelton’s “God’s Country,” Florida Georgia …

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Country band The Red Clay Strays talk about their rise to fame and new album Made by These Moments
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Country band The Red Clay Strays talk about their rise to fame and new album Made by These Moments

ABC  

Country music's popularity is at an all-time high. Hear The Red Clay Strays in conversation with Henry Wagons One of Americana's biggest new bands sit down in the Tower of Song with Henry Wagons to discuss their beautiful new album Made by These Moments. Loading YouTube content It's a swoon-worthy love song that treads the well-worn territory of love from …

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US Presidential Elections 2024 Viral Post Falsely Claims Donald Trump Running Mate JD Vance Wife Usha Greeted With Pro-India Chants At RNC 2024
5 months ago

US Presidential Elections 2024 Viral Post Falsely Claims Donald Trump Running Mate JD Vance Wife Usha Greeted With Pro-India Chants At RNC 2024

ABP News  

The Verdict In the original video, country music was playing in the background as Vance and his wife walked around greeting attendees, not pro-India chants. Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, greeting attendees at the Republican National Convention, in which chants of "India, India" are audible in the background. A user on X shared the video with the caption, "The …

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Melissa Carper 'Borned In Ya'
5 months, 1 week ago

Melissa Carper 'Borned In Ya'

ABC  

Austin, Texas based musical treasure – Melissa Carper – releases her new LP, ‘Borned In Ya’, via Mae Music/Thirty Tigers. The film featured an interview with roots music icon Ralph Stanley; “I don’t think you can get this sound unless it’s borned in ya,” he said when asked about what he called “old-time mountain music.” When Carper heard those words, …

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Two Tone Pony 'Born On The Road'
5 months, 1 week ago

Two Tone Pony 'Born On The Road'

ABC  

Formed in 2018 by lead guitarist, singer and songwriter David Kirkpatrick, Two Tone Pony came from a desire to write, perform and record original Australian music. Lately though Greg has been back behind his vintage Rogers kit and as a member of Two Tone Pony, is loving working on David and Ian’s exceptional original material and interpreting some inspiring covers. …

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