We learnt yesterday, on NBC News Now, that Brett James, the acclaimed country music songwriter, tragically died in a small-plane crash on September 18, 2025, near Franklin, North Carolina — at age 57. The aircraft, a Cirrus SR22T registered in his legal name Brett James Cornelius, departed Nashville's John C. Tune Airport and crashed [...]
Fans starving for traditional country music the way it once was, weep no more, as Brent Beaudeux delivers the goods with his ten track album “Brent’s Country”. Not will this album gladden a stalwart oldschool country aficionado from a sonic perspective but the lyrical content is intimate, personal and tells stories which are slices [...]
Session Americana non è una semplice band ma un collettivo di musicisti ad assetto variabile che nel corso degli ultimi ventanni ha condiviso, intrattenuto, divertito, intrecciato i vari suoni roots dalla tradizione al rock con spirito empatico e genuino. Nove dischi all’attivo e innumerevoli show da entrambi i lati dell’oceano hanno sottolineato una passione [...]
Abbracciare in maniera completa ed approfondita l’ampio patrimonio musicale del profondo sud e farlo in maniera personale e genuina è compito non facile ma nel caso di Afton Wolfe, musicista nativo del Mississippi e residente a Nashville da un ventennio circa, pienamente riuscito. Afton Wolfe ha alle spalle un curriculum importante e vario ed [...]
Colin Stough has announced Promiseland, his debut EP after his successful run on American Idol earlier this year. The six-song project will be released on all DSPs on October 20, 2023, and is available to pre-save/pre-add now. Colin Stough is one of the most buzzed about newcomers in country music today, after taking top honours on Season 21 of American Idol. [...]
Dodici dischi all’attivo e una lunga esperienza sui palchi dei più rinomati club e festival americani ed europei: Kevin Dooley, attualmente residente a Longmont, cittadina del Colorado nella Contea di Boulder, ha da tempo preferito esibirsi principalmente per scopi benefici o in occasione di riunioni tra amici, continuando comunque a scrivere canzoni. Lontano da [...]
Great news. 26-time CCMA award winner, Gord Bamford is out with his new album ‘Fire it Up’ ( Anthem Records ). Be sure to get your copy featuring the single One Heartbeat From Heaven. Tracklist: 01. Canadian Dirt 02. Fire It Up 03. Cooperstown 04. Leanin' On This Bar 05. Hair Of The Honky [...]
A volte essere figli d’arte può essere un peso tale da cercare di percorrere la propria strada artistica evitando volutamente il proprio cognome per non incorrere in paragoni scomodi. E’ il caso di Meredith Moon, canadese, banjoista e chitarrista innamorata dei suoni della tradizione appalachiana che ha interpretato con buona personalità, intraprendendo il suo [...]
“What’s most important to me is to be a link in the chain of folks singers before and after my time,” Trapper Schoepp says in light of his forthcoming album, Siren Songs. Recorded at Johnny Cash’s Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN, Trapper continues down the trail trod by his musical heroes. In 2019, the Milwaukee singer-songwriter published a long-lost [...]
Breakout artist Bri Fletcher is releasing her debut, seven song EP entitled Chapter One. Featuring a collection of Fletcher’s most popular previous releases including the hit track “Everything I’m Not,” Chapter One also includes a brand-new wedding version of “There’s Still Tomorrow” featuring Jake Hoot. Fletcher had a hand in writing each of the seven songs on the [...]
