After last year’s bountiful two-day outing, Zac Brown Band will be coming back for more with their second Southern Ground Music & Food Festival, to be held September 27 and 28 in downtown Nashville. The festival and lineup received nothing but praise in 2012, and this one looks to be just as good, if not [...]

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 [...]

(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 hit the road this year. Chesney has a new album in the works. The album, still untitled, is set for release on April 30 via [...]

Uncle Kracker is no stranger to country music, but he’s never sounded quite as twangy as he does on Midnight Special. We talked with the Detroit native about working with Sugar Hill Records, touring the country with Kenny Chesney, and recording his new album in Al Capone’s hideout. Signing with a roots label like Sugar [...]

Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Jack Johnson, Grace Potter Kenny Chesney banded together for Farm Aid 2012 in Hersey Park in Hersey, Pa. Saturday, September 22.

Kenny Chesney Welcome To The Fishbowl (Blue Chair/Columbia) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Kenny Chesney’s fifteenth studio album (and 11th number one) Welcome to the Fishbowl finds him continuing to explore his more mature side which was hinted at on 2010’s Hemingway’s Whiskey. Fishbowl displays a serious yearning to stretch and dig a little [...]

Old friends Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney kick off their Brothers Of The Sun Tour in Tampa, Florida on 6/1/12

(PHOTOS: Danny Clinch) Explore the May/June Issue On the day he moved to Nashville, Tim McGraw stepped off a Greyhound bus with a guitar and a suitcase. He arrived inauspiciously around 3 a.m. on May 9, 1989, and checked into small room at the Hall of Fame hotel, a few blocks off Music Row. The [...]

Lionel Richie’s new album, Tuskegee, named after his hometown in Alabama, is an album of duets with country artists, tackling Richie’s most beloved songs. In this sit-down interview, the R&B icon reflects on his storied career, remarks on the current crop of country stars from Blake Shelton (“he’s so funny”) to Gary LeVox of Rascal [...]

(The Shins) Following his critically acclaimed album Hemingway’s Whiskey, Kenny Chesney plans to release a new (untitled, as of yet) album on June 19. Chesney embarks on ‘The Brothers Of Sun’ tour with Tim McGraw on June 2. Check out the dates here. The Newport Folk Festival announced its 2012 lineup with headliners My Morning Jacket [...]

“Country music is truly music for everyone,” said Tim McGraw, as he and his wife Faith Hill prepared to announce the Country Music Association’s 2009 “Entertainer of the Year” award. “And that’s never been more apparent than with the diversity of tonight’s nominees.” It was a line meant to acknowledge the presence of one nominee [...]

The nominees are in for this years’ Academy of Country Music Awards, which will be broadcast live on CBS on April 3 from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Leading the pack is Miranda Lambert, who also cleaned up at the CMAs, with seven nominations, including Entertainer of the Year and Song Of The [...]