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Fast rising American country trio Lockeland have released their first single in three months in the shape of Made For Mornings. You can listen to the song here. The track follows in the footsteps of Keep Us Young – which was released in February – and sees the group experiment with a slightly rockier sound, though the …

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Chris Lane has reminded everyone what it’s like to witness live music by sharing a rendition of Take Back Home Girl  from his headline tour in Chicago. You can see the video, featuring the vocal talents of MacKenzie Porter, below. [wpdevart_youtube]9xyoiDcpg88[/wpdevart_youtube] As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, all live gigs are currently cancelled, postponed or …

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Charley Crockett has announced that his next album, ‘Welcome to Hard Times’, will be released on July 31 via Thirty Tigers. You can pre-order the album here. The album was produced by Mark Neill and saw Crockett work with Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys and Pat McLaughlin, with the album’s title track being the …

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The likes of Andrew Millsaps, Daniel Kemish and Douglas Berti will be performing live streams on the Electro-Voice Facebook page as part of the #EVOpenMic Series. You can find that here. With musicians unable to perform due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, Electro-Voice wanted to give musicians worldwide  a platform to perform and tapped into …

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Up and coming UK artist Becky Lawrence has released her third single in five months in the shape of Empty Friendships, which was recorded  in lockdown. You can listen to the song here. Empty Friendships, the title coming from a writing session with fellow rising UK artist Charlotte Young, was co-written with her long time guitarist David …

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Jaime Wyatt will be releasing her much anticipated ‘Neon Cross’ project in the UK on August 21, which is her debut release on New West Records. You can pre order/pre save the album here. The album, which is released in America on Friday (May 29), is her follow-up to debut album ‘Felony Blues’ and saw …

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Rising UK artist Shannon Hynes has released her new single Country Words, which she has described herself as “an ode to the women of country music.” You can listen to the song here. The single comes three months after Hynes’ last release, which was Comfort, while it is also the third track that the Welsh artist has …

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The Wandering Hearts have announced that their much anticipated second album will be self-titled and will be released on August 14. The video for lead single on the album, Over Your Body, can be seen below and you can pre-order the album here. [wpdevart_youtube]97d0VgLSshs[/wpdevart_youtube] The trio – made up of Tara Wilcox, Chess Whiffin and AJ …

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Country music icon Dolly Parton has donated $1m of her own money towards finding a cure for the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world. Taking to her social media accounts, Parton revealed that she had generously donated the sum to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where a good friend of hers is working on …

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