Patrons at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe on Saturday night (March 31) not only got what they paid for, which was an evening of songs and stories with the Grammy-winning hitmaker Craig Wiseman.
Category: Music News (Page 26 of 28)
The mass shooting that happened during Jason Aldean’s closing performance at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest Festival was a nightmare no one should ever experience.
Ashley Monroe has released another song – ‘Wild Love’ – from her forthcoming album ‘Sparrow which is due out 20th April.
After releasing her Grammy-nominated LP The Blade in 2015, Ashley Monroe started writing songs that realised themselves in unexpected ways – nudged loose after working through trauma and turmoil from her childhood. “I was unpacking a lot of stuff,” she says. “I was singing, and identifying what it’s like to be left. No one told me what I should do, back then, when the world started to crumble.”
Ashley McBryde‘s long-awaited major label debut ‘Girl Going Nowhere’ is out now and available to download/stream everywhere today! The album is already getting an incredible reaction from fans and critics:
“… among the most varied, warm and effortlessly confident country music albums of the past few years.” –Jon Caramanica, The New York Times
“…an unabashed, Southern-rooted, honest-to-gawd great country record.”
– Chris Willman, Variety
Garth Brooks welcomes US country star into “the family”
KATE ELLIS NEW SINGLE ‘I BELIEVE’ OUT TODAY
With her debut album ‘Carve Me Out’ declared a highlight on ‘Best of 2017’ lists across multiple music blogs and radio shows (Your Life in a Song; Laurel Canyon Music; Mike Ritchie on Celtic Music Radio among others) and hundreds of thousands of fans streaming her songs and videos across the world; one of London’s most exciting independent acts Kate Ellis has announced her next single will be the fan-favourite ‘I Believe’, along with a run of tour dates from February – April.
SCOTTY McCREERY’S LONG-AWAITED ALBUM ‘SEASONS CHANGE’ – OUT 16th MARCH 2018
24-year old singer/songwriter McCreery has a lot to say on his new 11-track album, produced by Frank Rogers Rogers (McCreery’s See You Tonight, Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker), Derek Wells (guitarist for Kenny Chesney, Brett Eldridge, Little Big Town), and Aaron Eshuis (producer for Ryan Hurd, songwriter for A Thousand Horses, Joe Nichols, Cole Swindell).
Millennum Forum, DERRY: June 25th
Waterfront, BELFAST: June 26th
Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am
Country music icon Kris Kristofferson makes a hugely welcome return for four solo acoustic shows this June, including two in Northern Ireland.
Sam Hunt had some new music up his sleeve when he took to the stage this week at the press launch of Luke Bryan’s ‘What Makes You Country’ tour but he had a last minute change of mind for fear of muddling up his words.
“I was going to try and work up a new song, but I haven’t memorized some of the lyrics yet,” Hunt commented.
First Country band to debut album at No. 1 in nearly 10 years.
Ahead of their first trip to the UK next month for C2C Festival, platinum-selling breakthrough band LANCO claim the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart this week with ‘Hallelujah Nights’, marking the first Country band to open at No. 1 with a debut album since Lady Antebellum in 2008. Featuring their two-week No. 1 hit ‘Greatest Love Story’ and their new single ‘Born To Love You’ the “collection puts an anthemic spin on young love and small-town life” (The Tennessean) and has dominated the top of the iTunes Country chart since its release, including going straight to the #1 spot on the UK & Ireland’s iTunes country charts, with growing support from radio stations and shows across the country.
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