Check out this exclusive preview of Mercyland: Hymns For The Rest of Us, the upcoming album of songs examining faith featuring Emmylou Harris, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Civil Wars and many more. Mercyland is due April 24; get more details here.

“Not all hymns are found in the pocket on the back of the church pew,” says Emmylou Harris, one of a handful of roots artists featured on Mercyland: Hymns For The Rest of Us, an album conceived of by songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Phil Madeira, a member of Harris’s band The Red Dirt Boys. Wanting to explore the [...]

Sugar + The Hi-Lows Sugar + The Hi-Lows (Ready Set Records) Rating: Taking a page from She & Him’s mid-century kitsch and the Civil Wars’ folksy harmonies, Nashville-based songwriters Trent Dabbs and Amy Stroup turn back the clock with Sugar + the Hi-Lows, a retro boy-and-girl duo with both feet planted in the pre-Internet era. [...]

Ten Out of Tenn, a collective of the best and the brightest independent Nashville musicians, has announced a fall tour of 15 U.S. cities, and a fourth compilation album due out August 16. The 2011 lineup includes founder Trent Dabbs, as well as Andrew Belle, Matthew Perryman Jones, Butterfly Boucher, Katie Herzig, Jeremy Lister, Tyler [...]