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When Shelby Lynne returned to Nashville after 25 years, she believed her record-making days were through. “I was over it and tired of it, and I didn’t think there was any interest,” the songwriter tells Rolling Stone in her signature raspy Southern drawl. Perhaps she’d write some songs and perform a few gigs at smaller venues, as she had done throughout the years. After all, releasing 16 albums was no small feat. A “true blue Southerner” as she describes herself, Lynne was more focused on readjusting from a quarter century...

Morgan Wade’s sophomore album Psychopath has finally arrived.

After much anticipation – the country singer’s been highlighted by several publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and more – Wade says she “can finally breathe” now that her record is out.

“The response has been so great already. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart,” she wrote in an Instagram post Friday. “…I’m very grateful today.”

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Morgan Wade- Psychopath album cover art. — Photo: Courtesy of Sony Music

“Writing all this while heading into the studio #acoustic,” Wade, 28, added alongside a winking emoticon, seemingly hinting at her next project – an acoustic album.

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Meanwhile on Wade’s Instagram Story, the Virginia native reposted several fans’ posts of them listening to her new album,...

Singer Miranda Lambert reached her tipping point during a recent concert in Las Vegas where she stopped mid-song to scold some fans for taking selfies, which caused disturbances during her performance.

The country star was performing ‘Tin Man’ during her Las Vegas residency this past weekend when she took a pause from her performance to direct some words to some concertgoers, reports ‘Deadline’.

“I’m going to stop right here for a second,” Lambert said in the viral video. “These girls are worried about their selfie and not listening to the song. It’s pissing me off a little bit.”

Lambert continued, “I don’t like it at all. We’re here to hear some country music tonight. I’m singing some country damn music.” The crowd in attendance started cheering and clapping for Lambert as the star signaled people to sit down and ask, “Shall we start again?”.

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Kaitlin Butts wasn’t specifically thinking about the political environment in her adopted home of Tennessee when she shot the video for “What Else Can She Do,” but her timing for releasing it could not have been more perfect. Filmed last summer at the Hamburger Inn in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the clip features the Tulsa native Butts alongside Texas drag queen Paris Van Cartier doing their best to make ends meet while working in a small-town diner.

“Honestly, I cannot believe that this has lined up. It was not even intentional at all,...

Miranda Lambert is not used to sitting still, so a few months into pandemic quarantine she and her husband, former NYPD officer Brendan McLoughlin, bought a shiny silver Airstream and headed up the East Coast from Nashville. They made “campfire casserole,” a specialty of Lambert’s dad, drank wine on the pop-up table, and named the gleaming beast “The Sheriff.”

“My stepson lives in New York, so we were trying to figure out creative ways to get to him,” Lambert says, sitting in a conference room down the hall from...

Let’s face it: This Christmas season is shaping up to be less than a beaut, Clark. Fortunately, there’s some new country and Americana recordings to dull the pain. Some extol the virtues of simply getting drunk or stoned, while others look to brighter and more clear-eyed days ahead. Here’s your must-hear holiday playlist.

Katie Pruitt, “Merry Christmas Mary Jane”

Katie Pruitt is finding a little spark in “Merry Christmas Mary Jane,” a languid blues-rocker that celebrates the power of a good joint to chase away the holiday blues.

In early 2017, Wanda Jackson showed up late to a scheduled writing session in Nashville with Angaleena Presley and Vanessa Olivarez. Jackson, then in her late Seventies, explained to her new co-writers that she’d fallen while getting off the plane from her native Oklahoma City and showed them some of the bruising on her legs and face. Presley showered the rockabilly legend with gratitude for making the trip despite her injuries, when, as Presley recalls, “the most shit-eating grin I’d ever seen billowed across her legendary face.”

“She looked...

Ashley Monroe has revealed her diagnosis with a rare form of blood cancer in an Instagram post, writing about her ordeal and expressing her gratitude for the bright spots that have made a scary few months more bearable. The post was accompanied by a slide show of images featuring her husband John Danks and son Dalton, along with friends including Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley.

“A few months ago my dr. was doing some routine lab work and found that I was anemic. I was like, Fine, I’ll just double up on cheeseburger patties,...

Wanda Jackson will return for her final project this summer. Titled Encore, the Queen of Rockabilly’s new album will be released August 20th via Big Machine/Blackheart.

Encore puts the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member together with fellow rocker Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna for eight songs that were recorded before Jackson announced her retirement from touring in 2019. Jett appears on several of the tracks, including “Treat Me Like a Lady” and “Two Shots,” which also includes a guest appearance by Elle King. “Good Girl Down,” which Angaleena Presley first recorded for Wrangled,...

When Ashley Monroe wakes in the morning, she often heads straight to her closet. “I hear melodies in here,” says the singer-songwriter, calling from inside the cramped space during a recent interview.

In the quiet early morning hours of 2018 and 2019, Monroe heard much more than melodies in her closet. Fully fleshed-out arrangements — bass grooves, synth lines, vocal hooks — spontaneously presented themselves in her head. “I was hearing them like the songs were already written,” she says. If she liked something enough, she’d sing whatever she could a cappella and make a voice demo.

The past decade in country music has been a boom time for small-town truth tellers — artists like Brandy Clark, Angaleena Presley, and Kacey Musgraves — who countered Nashville’s trucks-and-tailgates formula with stripped-down realism. In 2018, Arkansas native Ashley McBryde released one of the most striking country LPs in recent memory with Girl Going Nowhere; her music honored Townes Van Zandt and John Mellencamp, and she sang with plain-spoken vulnerability about everyday stuff like her platonic roommate or the folks back home who told her she’d never make a living from her art,...

On June 21st, Chicago’s Country LakeShake festival held its first women-only performance day, which was capped by a headlining set from Miranda Lambert. Artists who performed earlier in the day, including Maren Morris, Lindsay Ell, Lauren Alaina, and Cassadee Pope, later returned to the stage alongside Pistol Annies members Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe to help close out Lambert’s set with a rousing cover of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” as seen in a new video.

“I can’t believe I...

Miranda Lambert debuted a new song during her Saturday night set at Nissan Stadium, ripping through the pummeling “Locomotive” for the Cma Fest crowd. It is Lambert’s first new music since releasing the double album The Weight of These Wings in late 2017.

Lambert introduced the song, which she told the Tennessean was “total country-punk rock,” by saying it was the first time she and her band had played it for anyone. The band kicked things off with a turbocharged Chuck Berry-style guitar riff and pounding drums set to...

“Well, I’ve been in this Junk Town most of my life,” singer-songwriter Ian Noe sings on his debut album, Between the Country. Noe hails from small-town Eastern Kentucky, and his first offering is a bundle of dark tales and larger-than-life characters from his beleaguered home region. “It’s a country jungle ‘round here,” he sings halfway through a record littered with meth, online poker, bitter wind and despair.

Noe, 29, sings with a gentle high nasal that recalls Diamonds in the Rough-era John Prine. Unlike the debut of his fellow country-leaning Kentucky contemporary Tyler Childers,...

Miranda Lambert has revived her Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour for a new 2019 leg, which will embark in September with back-to-back shows at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Lambert first used the Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour name nearly 10 years ago, following the release of her third album Revolution. She returned to it in 2015, during which her trio Pistol Annies, featuring Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, made a surprise appearance together after going on hiatus. This time around, the Annies are set to play all dates, while...

For its eighth annual iteration, the Watershed Music and Camping Festival will feature a diverse cross-section of mainstream country performers. Headliners for the event, set for August 2nd to 4th at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre, include Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band and Miranda Lambert.

Based in scenic George, Washington, overlooking the Columbia River Gorge, Watershed is routinely one of the most-anticipated events of country festival season. Lambert’s set this year will include an appearance by the Pistol Annies, her trio with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, and other performers...

Ashley Monroe has announced the forthcoming Sparrow (Acoustic Sessions), a five-song Ep featuring unplugged performances of tunes from her 2018 solo album Sparrow — one of two acclaimed releases to feature Monroe last year. The first taste of the stripped-down recordings comes with an acoustic rendition of “Wild Love,” captured as a lovely solo performance in a new video. The song was, in fact, inspired by Monroe’s first trip to London, one of the cities on her current tour.

“I thought that city was just so sexy and so beautiful and so amazing,...

Country music videos in 2018 were a mix of the poignant and the empowering, as some clips movingly told end-of-life tales and others glamorously celebrated independence. Others still lampooned the very art of making videos. Here’s the 10 must-watch clips of the year.

John Prine, “Summer’s End”

A woman loses her life to opioids, leaving behind a young daughter and an elderly father. The aftermath is shown in a series of quick vignettes: an emotional breakdown at school; a trip to a fruit orchard; a family visitation at the gravesite.

Pistol Annies returned to TV screens this week, taking the Late Night With Seth Meyers stage for a suitably celebratory and sassy performance of “Got My Name Changed Back,” the biting post-divorce track from the trio’s latest album Interstate Gospel. The occasion marked the trio’s return to NBC after last month’s appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Decked out in vibrant shades of red and purple befitting the Christmas holiday and backed by a hard-driving band, the Annies — with Miranda Lambert on lead vocal and...

The Country Music Association Awards return for the 52nd time on Wednesday night, with this year’s show set to celebrate another fruitful year in country, and also look ahead to what’s next.

The CMAs feature a number of interesting races this year, but as always it’s the performances that generate the most buzz, even outside of Nashville — remember Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake’s viral moment in 2015? This time, there’s a pop and country collaboration that has captured fans’ attention for almost a whole year; the...

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Carly Rae Jepsen, “Party for One”

Sounds like: A perfectly tuned pop formula

Perfect for: Celebrating being alone instead of feeling lonely

Pop’s most romantic songwriter is back with a new kind of love story. On “Party for One,” Carly Rae Jepsen follows up the relationship ups and downs of her acclaimed 2015 album Emotion with an anthemic celebration of being on your own. The first taste of her imminent fourth album sticks to the bubbly simplicity of her personal pop...

One of the strengths that Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, the trio known as Pistol Annies, have in their arsenal is a blend of impeccable, often spine-chilling harmony. And rarely is that more potently evident than when the three perform acoustically, as in the above clip for “Best Years of My Life.”

Seated in a circle and strumming acoustic guitars for an unplugged rendition of the wistful ballad from Interstate Gospel, their just-released third project together, the trio convey the emotional weight of a shattered relationship’s most...

It's safe to say divorce court has never looked this good.

In the music video for the recently reunited Pistol Annies' "Got My Name Changed Back," Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley dress to the nines for their appearance in front of a judge. As the song's title suggests, Lambert sings about reclaiming her old name and isn't afraid to drag her cheating ex through the mud.

"It takes a judge to get married, it takes a judge to get divorced / Well the last couple of years, spent a lotta time in court," she sings on the stand in front of a packed room, before repeating "Got my name changed back."

Although she doesn't name anyone specifically, it's not hard to guess that the tune was inspired by Lambert's rocky few years in love. She divorced from country singer Blake Shelton in 2015, dated Anderson East shortly afterwards, and then...

Pistol Annies — the trio of singer-songwriters Miranda Lambert, Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe — won huge critical praise for their 2013 LP Annie Up, a wry collection of songs about drinking and divorce.

But the album was released during a critical shift in country jump-started by the record-breaking success of Florida Georgia Line and Nelly’s “Cruise,” which hit radio just a few weeks before Annie Up. In the ensuing five years, mainstream country has mostly embraced the template that “Cruise” offered: male voices singing about partying and women over slick, pop-savvy production.

Editor’S Pick: Pistol Annies, Interstate Gospel

“The ethos of the Pistol Annies, who steep their classicist country — rife with despair and misfortune — in rootsy arrangements, has not been welcomed within the mainstream confines of the genre in some time,” writes Jonathan Bernstein. “The Pistol Annies’ solution? Doubling down on the roots-blend they’ve honed over the better part of the past decade, merging Ashley Monroe’s East Tn bluegrass roots, Angaleena Presley’s hardscrabble Kentucky country-rock and Miranda Lambert’s Texas honky-tonk. On paper, the Annies’ latest, like its predecessors,...

Pistol Annies celebrated the release of their third album Interstate Gospel with a visit to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they performed the heart-rending hymn “Best Years of My Life.” Interstate Gospel is officially out today.

With some subtle, synchronized movement, Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley evoke classic girl group performances even as they remain unmistakably country in sound. There’s a darker edge to the wistful sound of “Best Years of My Life,” which depicts a quiet, creeping unhappiness. Monroe, strumming an acoustic guitar on the Tonight Show stage,...

The Cma Awards has added a new group of established superstars and relative newcomers to the list of performers on the show, with Miranda Lambert now pulling double-duty on a collaboration with Jason Aldean — presumably on their Musical Event of the Year-nominated hit, “Drowns the Whiskey.” Lambert will also take the stage with her Pistol Annies partners Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, in a rare TV appearance for the trio.

Reigning Entertainer of the Year Garth Brooks, who has won in that category a record six times since 1991, will also perform,...

Nearly 75 years ago, in January 1944, Billboard magazine published its very first country chart, topped by pop crooner Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters trio’s bubbly version of a song called “Pistol Packin’ Mama.” On Thursday night, at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, that song played on the P.A. system to herald the onstage arrival of Pistol Annies, the irresistibly sassy trio comprised of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, who packed the sold-out show with traditional honky-tonk edged in swaggering rock & roll and laced with sweet gospel harmony.

Pistol Annies, the acclaimed side project of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, have unveiled another track from their highly anticipated third album, Interstate Gospel, which comes out November 2nd. “Masterpiece” is a poignant, atmospheric ballad that reflects on the difficulty of maintaining a relationship while constantly being scrutinized under the celebrity spotlight.

Lambert, who certainly knows something about the topic, takes the lead vocal, singing in the first verse: “Baby we were just a masterpiece/Up there on the wall for all to see.” As the song gets to its soulful,...

Solo artists, duos, trios and one-of-a-kind collaborations are all on tap at the upcoming 52nd annual Cma Awards, which announced a new slate of performers on Wednesday. Three-time Cma winner Dierks Bentley will team with his “Burning Man” partners, reigning Vocal Duo of the Year Brothers Osborne, while duo Florida Georgia Line will take the stage with pop star Bebe Rexha, as their collaborative single “Meant to Be,” already the all-time record-holder at Number One on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart, logs its 47th week in the top spot.

If a television network could say “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!,” that’s what Cmt did Wednesday night in devoting its entire annual “Cmt Artists of the Year” honoree slate — and nearly all of the presenter and performer slots, too — to country’s quantifiably under-served female stars. The genre seemed to be getting its own Lilith Fair in the telecast, albeit a Lilith Fair squeezed down into 95 all-too-fast minutes for a brisk show that was telecast live from Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

If a gender-identity-claiming network could talk, it might also say, “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman” — the song performed by honoree Maren Morris and an outside-the-genre guest, Brandi Carlile, as a tribute to Aretha Franklin and also, implicitly, in honor of the sisterhood. That teaming of great voices seemed like it would easily be the highlight of the night, but then there were several...

Pistol Annies’ upcoming third album, Interstate Gospel, finds the trio casting their musical net across more expansive waters, mixing their sweet, traditional country and bluegrass harmony with flashes of Sixties girl groups, classic rock and even a bit of soulful funk. All of those latter elements feature in “Sugar Daddy,” the latest sneak preview track from the Annies’ soon-to-be-released LP.

An aggressively infectious blues-rock jam, “Sugar Daddy” kicks off with a meaty bass riff and highlights blazing guitar throughout. The storyline starts with Miranda Lambert singing, “There ain’t a...

With the release of their third album Interstate Gospel just three weeks away, Pistol Annies have unleashed another sneak peek at the LP with “Stop Drop and Roll One,” the saucy, high-spirited musical equivalent of late-night pub crawl.

From its inspired opening line — “We’re on fire, I think” — uttered by Miranda Lambert during a particularly fruitful writing session with her Annies’ cohorts Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, a boozy, smoke-filled ladies’ night ensues as Monroe sings, “I don’t really care how this phony-ass fairytale ends, I just hope...

Country Crooner Miranda Lambert is still "scarred" by her breakup with Blake Shelton. A source tells In Touch exclusively their divorce is something that will "stay" with the 34-year-old "forever." "Even though it's been more than three years now, Miranda and Blake's divorce feud is still going strong – and no one is safe," the insider revealed. In fact, she's reportedly been boozing to "hide her sadness." During a performance at Nashville's Cma Theater, she knocked back two large tumblers of a mixed vodka drink during her 80-minute concert. "I drink a lot of Tito's," she told the crowd. As she started to play, she warned, "If you don't like sad songs, you might as well go ahead and leave." Jeez. "Miranda is anything but happily single," a source revealed to Life & Style. "She's been partying to hide her sadness and loneliness. And the split from Evan, who she was considering...

With the combined musical voices of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley — all formidable artists on their own — the Pistol Annies have been fearless about exploring complex emotional territory in their songwriting. On their first two albums, Hell on Heels and Annie Up, they envisioned women longing to break free from the expectations of polite society, whether through literal escape of untenable situations or living out fantasies of revenge and reckless abandon. That their skillfully drawn characters weren’t always able to accomplish those things kept the Annies’ recordings...

On October 17th, the 2018 Cmt Artists of the Year telecast will, for the first time in its history, feature an all-women cast of honorees. In addition, all of the guest performers will also be women.

Three-time Cmt Artist of the Year Carrie Underwood will take the stage with her tourmates Maddie & Tae and Runaway June, both of whom have previously been honored as Cmt Next Women of Country. Miranda Lambert and her Pistol Annies cohorts Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley will also perform, just ahead of the November 3rd release...

A long-awaited song from the Pistol Annies, Brothers Osborne’s new single and Lucie Silvas’ glorious “Kite” are among the 10 country and Americana tracks you need to hear now.

Pistol Annies, “Got My Name Changed Back”

Miranda Lambert celebrates her independence with this countrified kiss-off. “It takes a judge to get married, it takes a judge to get divorced / Well, the last couple years I spent a lot of time in court,” she sings, balancing the Pistol Annies’ honky-tonk humor with a sly nod to her own marital changes. “Got...

If last week’s Artist-in-Residence performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum was all about highlighting Miranda Lambert’s considerable skill as a songwriter, last night’s follow-up show made the case that she’s an equally compelling bandleader when joined with her Pistol Annies cohorts Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley.

Lambert, the Hall’s 15th Artist-in-Residence, shared the special occasion with her two friends, playing only Pistol Annies songs — including three from their upcoming new album Interstate Gospel — instead of her acclaimed solo material. It was...

Pistol Annies, the acclaimed side project of Angaleena Presley, Ashley Monroe and Miranda Lambert, have set November 2nd as the release date for their third album Interstate Gospel. The LP is the follow-up to 2013’s Annie Up, and features songs written by all three artists together, with one exception — the album’s closing track, “This Too Shall Pass,” penned by Monroe and Presley.

The platinum-selling group, whose adherence to musical tradition has permeated each of their collaborative albums, initially revealed the track listing for the new project through postcards mailed directly to fans.

Ashley Monroe was still a teenager when she landed her first record deal, kicking off a career whose highlights include a string of high-profile collaborations —a Number One duet with Blake Shelton, “Lonely Tonight,” and an ongoing membership in the Pistol Annies — and critically-acclaimed solo albums like 2018’s Sparrow. She’s a unique kind of crossover artist, writing hits for mainstream-minded artists like Jason Aldean one minute and chasing her own Americana muse the next. Talking with Chris Shiflett during the newest episode of Walking the Floor, she covers the full spread of her career,...

Ashley Monroe embraces the inherent beauty of nature in a dreamy new video for her song “Wild Love.” A track off her latest album Sparrow, it’s one of the more passionate numbers off an already smoldering LP.

In the clip, Monroe is captured wandering through a forest and bathing her feet in a stream as the song’s strings swell around her. “I need a stranger to pull my hair and call my name,” she sings, “take me home and make me feel alive again.”

Monroe co-wrote “Wild Love...

Ashley Monroe continues to make her mark outside of Pistol Annies, her saucy country trio with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley. On her third solo album, The Blade, Monroe goes toe-to-toe with any of this year’s biggest country heavy-hitters, thanks to her immense knack for storytelling across both kick-up-your-heels tracks and emotionally wrenching cuts. Splitting the difference between the two is the LP’s most intimate moment, “Bombshell,” a charming, acoustic gem about learning to rip off life’s most painful Band-Aids.“When you first hear the song, your mind automatically goes to a relationship, like you’re leaving somebody, but I just think it’s interesting in life how many different types of bombshells we have to drop,” the Knoxville native tells Vulture. “There are so many. When my dad had cancer, my uncle came into a room to tell me he died. That’s a bombshell. And the older you get,...

Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton may be exes, but they exchanged Tweets on Friday to publically voice their support for Ashley Monroe and her new album, "The Blade."

Ashley is the country singer who Miranda teamed up with on stage in Nashville, Tenn., earlier this week, and is bandmates with in Pistol Annies (along with pal Angaleena Presley), and Ashley appeared on Blake's 2014 single, "Lonely Tonight." ...

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When Angaleena Presley was on the road with fellow Pistol Annies Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe, life, she admits, was pretty sweet. As a new artist "you're supposed to start in a van and then you get a crappy bus and then you get an okay bus," Presley tells People. But with the Annies, Presley and Monroe got to tag along on Lambert's luxury tour bus - at least most of the time. "Sometimes if Miranda was headed in a different direction, Ashley and I would have to get on the crew bus back to Nashville and we'd be like,...