The owner of Exit/In announced Nov. 23’s Diarrhea Planet will be their last show, capping off 51 years of local music in midtown Nashville.
How a triumphant anthem for ‘The Woman King’ brought Jessy Wilson back to music
Singer-songwriter Jessy Wilson was ready to walk away from music until her song “Keep Rising” was chosen as the closing anthem for the movie “The Woman King.”
Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music’s radical elder
Lavender Country, led by singer and songwriter Patrick Haggerty, released what it widely considered the first openly gay country album in 1973. Haggerty died this week at age 78.
Country music icon Loretta Lynn dead at 90
The country music icon who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting — and taught those who came after her to speak their minds, too — died today at her home in Tennessee.
How to fit a top-tier HBCU marching band and the gospel tradition onto one album
There really wasn’t an existing model for an album applying the meticulous layering, detailing and smoothing of a studio recording to a mighty marching unit like TSU’s Aristocrat of Bands.
Naomi Judd embodied the role of country music’s ‘mother’ — and helped to expand it
Alongside her daughter Wynonna, Naomi Judd, who died on April 30, willed one of the most riveting acts in country music into being through persistence and sacrifice.
Bren Joy had ideas about how to use his voice — and multiply it — from the start
It was just a year or two ago that Bren Joy was rummaging around in his parents’ Nashville attic and found vinyl LPs that both raised and answered questions for him.
Bluegrass Band Sister Sadie Embodies Tradition, But Bends It Too
This fall, the bluegrass supergroup Sister Sadie became the first all-female band ever to win the top prize at the International Bluegrass Music Association awards.
Remembrance: There’s Only One Charley Pride
Charley Pride was a symbol, ancestor and influence. But the country singer was also a master interpreter of song, his warm baritone attuned to deep emotion.
Hip-Hop In Nashville Is Making Its Own Way
Rap from Nashville isn’t new, nor is the city’s tendency to overlook the creators and entrepreneurs behind that music – despite country artists borrowing liberally from the genre over the past decade.
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