While celebrating its 10th Anniversary, CMC Rocks Queensland has sold out for its second consecutive year. The Australia-based Country music festival will host more than 15,000 music lovers across three days at Willowbank, with headline performances from Dixie Chicks, Little Big Town, Kip Moore and local stars Lee Kernaghan and Morgan Evans, and will feature …
Olivia Newton-John and Beth Nielsen Chapman tell Kieran Kennedy about their new album with Amy Sky. Not since Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt united on Trio 30 years ago have three voices harmonised as beautifully and movingly as they do on Olivia Newton-John’s collaboration with Beth Nielsen Chapman and Amy Sky, Liv On. …
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Multi-platinum-selling singer, songwriter and musician Sheryl Crow will release the new album ‘Be Myself’ on April 21st via Warner Bros. Records. For this album, Crow worked again with producer, musician and songwriter Jeff Trott, a long-time collaborator throughout her career. Trott co-wrote many of Crow’s classic hits including ‘If It Makes You Happy’and ‘My Favorite Mistake’. Crow says her main goal was “to investigate what made my early songs strike people …
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Country music legend John Anderson is hitting the road in 2017, for a North American tour that will see the ACM and CMA award winner making stops at venues nationwide. Crowds are raving over the must-see experience, which includes sell-out shows in 15 of Anderson’s last 17 appearances. This year also marks the 35th anniversary …
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In our exclusive interview Dolly Parton bares her heart to Eve Barlow. Truly a people’s artist, Dolly Parton’s lyrical inspiration on her latest album, Pure & Simple, is the same as it’s always been. She famously titled the character of the song Jolene after a child with that name at the front of her show. …
Ward Thomas prove that there’s still magic in the country music business, writes Steve Faragher. If there’s one thing about country music that delights me, it’s that talent will out, and honesty will prevail. It’s like the American Dream, only real. If you’re super-talented, super-nice (and ambitious enough), then the gods of Nashville will smile …
54-Minute Film Tells the Untold Story of the Birth of Country Music LONDON, UK: To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of country music, Country to Country (C2C) festival in London will present the UK premiere of the documentary ‘Born in Bristol’ at The O2’s Cineworld Cinemas on Sunday, 12th March 2017 at 1:30pm, …
Lucie Silvas writes from the heart, and that can be a pretty dark place, as she tells Teri Saccone. Fans of singer-songwriter Lucie Silvas can be assured that pretty much everything you need to know about her can be found in her wonderfully-crafted lyrics and music. Yet there is, of course, more to her than …
20 grammys and countless hits later, Vince Gill is still at the top of his game, writes Paul Sexton. On our way to Nashville’s hallowed Ryman Auditorium, we mention to a record-company person that we’re going to meet Vince Gill. “Ah yes,” they reply, with a warm smile. “The Mayor of Nashville.” It may be …
The rise of ACM Top New Male Vocalist nominee Chris Janson has been one of the feel-good stories of Country Music in the past few years. A native of Perryville, Missouri, the singer – who once lived in his car in between performances on Nashville’s historic Broadway – has become one of the most respected …
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