Country Music Features

LONG READ•Rissi Palmer's Color Me Country: Championing Change

“Platforms like Color Me Country have completely changed the game in country music. The work that it's doing for Black, Indigenous and other artists of color is incredible".

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INTRODUCING•Video Premiere: Jake La Botz - 'Hair on Fire'

A loose fusion of floor-thumping country, hand-clapping gospel folk and low down, dirty delta blues that lifts you up and shakes out your soul.

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INTERVIEW•Home Sweet Arkansas: Dylan Earl, Willi Carlisle & Jude Brothers

Ahead of their Porch Sessions at Black Deer Festival, Arkansas artists Dylan Earl, Willi Carlisle and Jude Brothers reflect on the musical culture and their favourite places in the state they call home.

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LONG READ•Oh Boy Records: The Spirit of Independence

John Prine's Oh Boy Records has always been - and always will be - all about the song; creating a space for songwriters and storytelling to flourish.

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INTRODUCING•New Artist of the Week: Zach Willdee

Mixing the outlaw swagger of Waylon Jennings with the smooth-as-custard creaminess of golden age Merle Haggard, Willdee is classic in that same only-in-America way that Wranglers, Coca Cola and Easy Cheese are.

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INTRODUCING•Premiere: Effie Zilch featuring Miko Marks - 'Room For Us All'

The new single from Effie Zilch is a masterpiece of bluesy southern rock that never stops reaching upwards and pushing onwards, like a wise old companion for navigating the fears and frustrations of everyday life with dignity and hope.