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 of Rock The Ocean’s inaugural Tortuga Music Festival next month, festival organizers announced today. “We are so excited to be traveling from Vermont to Tortuga [...]

“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 Works, the Triple Play Awards honored those musicians who penned three chart-topping country hits in 2012. For newcomers like Paslay, who topped the charts with [...]

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 toward a funky, new kind of groove. The title track of fellow Georgia native Jason Aldean’s fifth album is, of course, an entirely different “Night [...]

“In a world of a lot of bought fame and record labels, Levon Helm has always been about the music,” exclaimed Eric Church on stage at Love For Levon, a star-studded gathering of musicians playing tribute to the Arkansas drummer last night at The Meadowlands. Coming from a singer currently sitting at the top of [...]

Colt Ford recently took some time to chat with us about country music radio, getting songs cut by other artists, and big-time collaborations on his upcoming album: The new album is called Declaration Of Independence. Tell us about the meaning and how this album is different from your older material. I went backwards so to [...]

It takes its title from Jersey’s favorite son, but Eric Church’s “Springsteen” isn’t about its namesake — not really, anyway. As Church put it himself, “The interesting part is it’s a love affair that takes place in an amphitheater between two people. It didn’t happen with Springsteen, ironically, it happened with another artist.” The “it” [...]

“Drink In My Hand” Written by: Eric Church, Michael Heeney, Luke Laird Recorded by: Eric Church Peak Chart Position: No. 1 Billboard Country Walk us through a typical day in the life of Michael Heeney. Heeney: I’m up by five A.M. most mornings, pounding down coffee in my studio. I work on current songs I’ve [...]

Eric Church seems perched at the precipice of superstardom.

Genre-bending country star Colt Ford is back with his third studio album, Every Chance I Get. Melding country and hip-hop, the Georgia native has collected an all-star cast of collaborators, including Tim McGraw, Charlie Daniels, Eric Church, and The Nappy Roots. It’s a far cry from his early work with Jermaine Dupri and Kriss Kross, [...]

Jamey Johnson performing in Jacksonville, Florida on the Country Throwdown Tour [Photo Credit: John Davisson] The Country Throwdown Tour is underway. The tour, which kicked off in mid-May with three Florida dates, will make stops in the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast before wrapping up on the West Coast in June. The twelve headlining artists, who [...]

These four walls of Farnworth / Are closin’ in on me / My final meal is over / They’re gonna set me free

Eric Church might be the hardest working man on the Row.