Country Music Features

INTRODUCING•Premiere: Willi Carlisle - 'Life on the Fence'

A wonderfully eccentric take on old-timey folk-country; a heartbreakingly honest protest song about the trials of bisexuality in a culture that shies away from nearly any expression of love between two men.

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INTERVIEW•Ten Year Town: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Jeff Hanna reflects on the changes that have overtaken Music City over the decades, speaking to the recognition the iconic Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have reaped as a result.

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INTRODUCING•New Artist of the Week: Abbey Cone

It’s definitely the same kind of party that you’ll find left-field country pop singers like Maren Morris, Jillian Jacqueline, Cam and Lauren Alaina dancing at, but Abbey Cone is more than capable of holding her own on the dancefloor and throwing down with the rest of them.

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INTERVIEW•The Songs That Changed My Life: Thomas Rhett

Thomas Rhett's balance of sincerity and experimentalism in his music makes his choice of influences all the more clear.

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INTERVIEW•Home Sweet Home: 49 Winchester

Calling in from a quick stint back home before heading back out on tour, frontman Isaac Gibson picks out a handful of his favorite spots in Castlewood, Russell County and Southwest Virginia that he swears by.

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INTRODUCING•Premiere: Joshua Dylan Balis - 'Lydia'

Leaning into the stadium-sized grandeur of War on Drugs and Tom Petty, as well as the lyrical brilliance of John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, 'Lydia' is a blissful slice of breezy heartland Americana; the kind of song that plays while the credits roll on a coming-of-age movie.