Working for a music magazine in Music City has its benefits. In addition to the hotbed of talent that makes its home here, there is also an endless stream of talented musicians passing through town while on tour. Some of that talent makes its way into our office, and we get to hear live performances [...]

Nashville singer-songwriter Trent Dabbs, whose song “Shine” was recently featured on ABC’s Nashville,  invited us into his lair to hear “Mountain Song,” an elegant and beautifully understated track off his forthcoming album. In the latest installment of our Martin Guitar: Session series, Dabbs picked on a D-18, which is regarded as the ultimate bluegrass model. [...]

Trent Dabbs is one of the Nashville-based artists who stands to have his profile raised by ABC’s new, music-based soap opera Nashville. The debut episode found aspiring musicians Gunnar Scott (Sam Palladio) and Scarlett O’Connor (Clare Bowen) duetting on “If I Didn’t Know Better,” a tune penned by real-life duo The Civil Wars during their [...]

Trent Dabbs, the Mississippi-born founder of Ten Out Of Tennessee, has spent much of 2012 touring with his new project Sugar and the Hi-Lows. But during that time he found time to write and record his seventh solo album Future Like Snow, which was released earlier this month. We recently spoke with Dabbs about his [...]

  Luke Bryan performs at Tin Pan South 2012. The man at the door stamped the back of my hand with the inky image of a machine cog. “Ironically appropriate,” I mused to myself. After all, like any fine crafts person, a professional songwriter sets out to use the highest quality components and apply proven [...]

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 [...]

The winner of Nashville indie artist Trent Dabbs’ “Leave To See” video contest has been revealed; Craig Landino of Landino Media, who topped the Most Creative category. Perhaps it was the adorable bird costume or the small hand on the rainy windowpane, but this video won the heart of its music maker, Trent Dabbs. The [...]

Trent Dabbs is hosting a music video contest for his song “Leave To See.” The song will be available as a FREE download on his Facebook page. Just simply “like” his page and you will be able to download it. See below to get the song. The contest will include two categories. FIRST CATEGORY Most [...]

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If there’s anything that can’t stop Nashville, still recovering from the devastating flooding of early May, it’s a little bit of water. The inaugural Musicians Corner concert saw just that—water, and lots of it—but thanks to some Nashville music fans who didn’t mind a summer shower (or six), the show, mostly, went on. Musicians Corner [...]

Nashville’s Ten Out Of Tenn collective, a rotating roster of artists and singer-songwriters, have banded together to release We Are All In This Together, a benefit compilation where all the proceeds benefit Nashville flood victims. The disc features exclusives tracks by Ten Out Of Tenn artists Butterfly Boucher, Griffin House, Katie Herzig, Matthew Perryman Jones, [...]