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Originally published in the November 23, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. It’s 2:30 p.m. on a beautiful October afternoon at Pinewood Social, a local bar and bowling alley on the edge of downtown Nashville. Chris Young and his pals Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge, seated on modern, grey benches, have already ordered appetizers and…… MORE
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Originally published in the November 16, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. There’s a certain theatrical flair to meeting Tim McGraw at a turn-of-the-century slaughterhouse in a historic industrial area of Nashville to talk about his new album, Damn Country Music. Sure, the 100-plus-year-old brick compound has been repurposed for get-togethers of this sort, but…… MORE
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Originally published in the November 9, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. It’s an unusually warm and humid fall night in Huntsville, Ala., with a hint of rain lingering in the air. Tucked behind security fencing at the city’s Von Braun Center, among state-of-the-art buses and assorted service vehicles, is a tiny vintage camper that…… MORE
Originally published in the November 9, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. As country music splits into a rainbow of subcategories to accommodate option-hungry listeners, artists are given fresh leeway to experiment and, with luck, elicit a reaction. In the midst of this momentum, one new band has discovered an intriguing niche. With “Break Up…… MORE
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Originally published in the November 2, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. Missouri native David Nail is sitting in a Nash Country Weekly office on an early fall afternoon, checking his phone to see if his St. Louis Cardinals can overcome a late-inning deficit against divisional rival Chicago Cubs. On the car ride over, David…… MORE
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Originally published in the October 26, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. In THE FINAL PART of our four-part series on The Oak Ridge Boys, tenor Joe Bonsall fulfills his offstage calling by writing books and website essays. The Oak Ridge Boys—Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban—represent four distinct personalities who…… MORE
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Originally published in the October 19, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. In the third of our four-part series on the Oak Ridge Boys, baritone William Lee Golden finds his happy place in the world of light and shadow. The Oak Ridge Boys—Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban—represent four distinct personalities…… MORE
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Originally published in the October 12, 2015 issue of Country Weekly magazine. Duane Allen of The Oak Ridge Boys helps run the band’s business right down to their tour itinerary, in part two of our four-part series on the Oaks. The Oak Ridge Boys—Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban—represent four distinct…… MORE
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Five of country music’s most talented newcomers are vying for this year’s CMA New Artist of the Year Award. Winning the CMA New Artist of the Year Award is more than a nice feather in your cap—it’s a pretty accurate barometer of future country music success. Since the inception of the award in 1981—when it…… MORE
Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker is cracking a cold can of Corona at his pad on a late summer afternoon (closer to noon than after) in Okemah, Okla., a town of less than 3,500 people that folk-singing icon Woody Guthrie used to call home. Nowadays, the locals are pretty proud of ol’ Woody. You can…… MORE
Though “If I Die Young” may have given The Band Perry a career-defining hit very early in the sibling trio’s career, Kimberly, Reid and Neil aren’t content to try to duplicate its quaint, folky style for a life of diminishing returns. The group’s sophomore album, Pioneer, showcased them branching out into arena rock with amped…… MORE
Thomas Rhett is ready to hit the road and Bring The Bar To You in 2022!
Starting in June, Thomas will kick-off his Bring The Bar To You tour with back to back shows in Gilford, New Hampshire with openers Parker McCollum and Conner Smith.
After going through the last two years, Thomas says, “I’ll never take for granted being able to come see y’all and I’m so fired up to play some of these new ones that were made with these nights in mind. I have a feeling things are going to get loud – I’m counting down the days already!”
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Rhett