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A Thousand Horses charged out of the gate when they released their debut country single “Smoke” in 2015. The mid-tempo ballad about an addictive relationship climbed to Number One and teed up the band to be Nashville stars: they did TV, toured with Darius Rucker, played Bonnaroo. But just like the hit song’s title, that quick success dissolved in a wisp. The follow-up “(This Ain’t No) Drunk Dial,” another mid-tempo track, failed to ignite, and when the group finally did release something that showed them to be the rock...

When Austin Jenckes made his Grand Ole Opry debut in June, the Duvall, Washington, native had only expected he’d be performing two songs: “We Made It,” the track that opens his new album If You Grew Up Like I Did, and “If You’d Been Around,” a deeply personal ballad about the father he lost to suicide when he was 16.

The Opry crowd, however, along with host Vince Gill, demanded more, and spurred on by a standing ovation, Jenckes returned for a third song, which yielded yet another ovation.

Carrie Underwood performed a trio of songs from her latest album Cry Pretty on Jimmy Kimmel Live, including the powerhouse title track and the classic country-referencing “Ghosts on the Stereo.”

The performance, taped last month, led with Underwood’s performances of two recent singles, “Cry Pretty” and “Love Wins,” her latest to be sent to country radio. Additionally, she performed the album track “Ghosts on the Stereo,” a slow-burning number penned by Andrew Dorff, Hillary Lindsey and Tom Douglas that talks up the restorative power of playing country’s departed heroes.

Rascal Flatts return with a lilting song of devotion in “Back to Life,” a new single that follows the trio’s most recent studio album, Back to Us.

Penned by Cary Barlowe, Niko Moon, Shay Mooney (of Dan + Shay) and Fred Wilhelm, “Back to Life” glides on a gently swinging rhythm and lists a series of reasons large and small that create a sense of renewal in love, from dancing around the living room to falling asleep five minutes into a movie. “She puts that beat in my chest,...

Carrie Underwood will release her sixth studio album Cry Pretty on September 14th. On Monday, she shared the new release’s complete track listing and songwriting credits.

Underwood wrote nine of the tracks on Cry Pretty, including the powerful title cut, which she penned with Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and Liz Rose. Lindsey, who wrote Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” also gets credit for a couple of the new songs Underwood didn’t have a hand in writing, including “End Up With You” and “The Song That We Used To Make Love To.