On Celebrity Family Feud, guests get to form their own family, and contestants The War and Treaty showed up to the Steve Harvey-hosted game show with plenty of brainpower (not to mention musical might) on their side. Playing alongside […]
On Celebrity Family Feud, guests get to form their own family, and contestants The War and Treaty showed up to the Steve Harvey-hosted game show with plenty of brainpower (not to mention musical might) on their side. Playing alongside […]
We’ve covered some very prolific songwriters at No Depression, but none of them hold a candle, numbers-wise, to Matt Farley. Farley, under various artist names, has written more than 24,000 songs, all uploaded to Spotify, which is exactly the […]
Billy Strings has a long tradition of giving back. His String the Halls holiday shows have benefited the Nashville Rescue Mission, and in 2021, he brought a truckload of new guitars to his old elementary school in Michigan to […]
“It ain’t about the past,” the Drive-By Truckers proclaimed this week in announcing a tour to revisit their 2001 Southern Rock Opera double album. That’s because so many of those songs still speak to the state of the South […]
Malcolm Holcombe, a songwriting hero to many songwriters, died this week at 68. According to a social media post from his wife, he died from respiratory failure, though he’d suffered from ill health, including cancer, for a long time. […]
Whether a Black pop star is “allowed” to make country music is a subject of fierce debate in some corners of the internet lately, and probably in some dark, ugly places in real life, too. But the fact is […]
The big question last week, as the dust settled from megastar Beyoncé’s Super Bowl bombshell about releasing a country album, was whether country radio would embrace her new songs. After all, modern pop country radio doesn’t have a great […]
I don’t know if you heard, but there was a big football game last weekend. But the real big news, obviously, was Beyoncé dropping word of a new album via a Verizon ad that aired during the game. And […]
It’s hard to imagine a voice like Mojo Nixon’s ever being silenced, but here we are. Nixon, 66, died Wednesday from a “cardiac event” aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise, according to a statement from his family. Nixon merged the […]
Last week’s column brought you a preview of the presenters and performers of interest to roots music fans at the daytime Grammy Premiere Ceremony, and this week we learned who we’ll see at the main event this Sunday night. […]
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