This article appears in our May/June issue. Subscribe here. Gojo Café is a charmingly dingy Ethiopian restaurant on a strip of dingier Nashville road filled with chain shops and taco...

This article appears in our upcoming May/June “country” issue. Subscribe here. On a cold and clear day in January, Sturgill Simpson has just made camp in Chicago. He and his...

Various Artists Love for Levon CD/DVD (StarVista/Time-Life) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “You can’t spell Levon without ‘l-o-v-e’ reads the blurb on this nearly three hour DVD’s back cover,...

Grace Potter,  a supercharged rock songstress best appreciated in the context of a huge freaking party, will join Kenny Chesney, Eric Church and many more great artists on the stages...

Information for Keith Urban’s fourth annual Nashville benefit for the Country Music Hall of Fame has been announced. The We’re All for the Hall concert will take place at the...

In October, an impressive group of musicians, including everyone from Gregg Allman and Jakob Dylan to John Mayer and Eric Church, gathered to pay tribute to Levon Helm. The concert...

“This definitely doesn’t suck,” said Eric Paslay, one of the twelve songwriters who received trophies at yesterday’s CMA Triple Play Awards. Held during the CMA Songwriters Luncheon at Marathon Music...

(Kenny Chesney on the Brothers of the Sun Tour) Three of country music’s primetime players have announced upcoming tours for 2013. Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, and Blake Shelton will all...

50. Diamond Rugs, “Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant” John McCauley gets drunk, finds an out-of-tune piano, and sings the loneliest, saddest Christmas carol imaginable, somehow managing to rhyme “how’s the...

Provided you like country music, the CMAs are the best awards show on TV, beating the Grammys by a good country mile. They’re fast paced and heavy on the music,...

Jason Aldean Night Train (Broken Bow) Rating: Three stars As performed by James Brown and band in the early ‘60s, “Night Train” was a horn-heated instrumental boogie chugging its way...

With Eric Church’s career exploding due to the success of his latest studio album, Chief, he decided to get back to where it all started by releasing a live record....