The Bonnaroo lineup has officially been announced for 2024. With a diverse lineup that’s sure to cater to everyone’s music taste, the Bonnaroo music & arts festival has included some of the hottest rising “independent” acts in country music. The four day event has been a tradition in Manchester, Tennessee since 2002 and will be held this year from June 13th through the 16th at the Great Stage Park. While there are no country acts listed as headliners, Post Malone, who’s recently been dabbling in the genre since his CMA performance with Morgan Wallen and HARDY, will headline on Friday…
Author: Clayton Anderson
It’s been over ten years since we lost one of the most iconic Country artists there ever done was. On April 26th, 2013, George Jones passed away at the age of 81 from hypoxic respiratory failure. Still, the Country music community continues to celebrate his legendary career that produced millions of albums sold, as well as a massive 140 charting singles on the Top 40. Six days after the death of Jones, his funeral was held at the Grand Ole Opry, where George had played at hundreds of times. Fans lined up, as it was open to the public, and…
Now THIS is a cool video to watch. While casually scrolling on Facebook, I came across this old video of Chris Stapleton performing Lonestar’s classic hit, “Amazed,” from WAY before he became the superstar he is today. Amazed is one of many Country songs I grew up on and still love as an adult. Written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo and Chris Lindsey, the track was released in March of 1999 as the second single from their third studio album “Lonely Grill.” It went on to spend eight weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country chart, making the power Ballard…
Good news for MM fans. After previously releasing it exclusively to Amazon Music in early October of last year, Megan Moroney’s cover of Chris Stapleton’s “What Are You Listening To?” is now officially available on all streaming platforms. Just last week, CMT posted Megan’s live acoustic video performance of the cover from her Campfire Sessions, featuring performances from four additional tracks released back in July. For folks (including myself) who were wondering why they waited five months to release this cover from the same sessions, well now it makes total sense. Kickin’ off the video with a short introduction, Megan…
Back before the mullet… Posted to Youtube almost six years ago, but definitely appearing to be earlier, Morgan Wallen shared a cover on the piano of his good buddy Eric Church’s song, “Like Jesus Does,” and it’s pretty damn good if ya ask me. One of my favorite Church songs still to this day, the track was released as the fifth and final single off of his biggest album to date, “Chief.” It was written by Casey Beathard and Monty Criswell and is one of three songs on any of Church’s albums that he himself is not credited as a writer.…
Setting up to be a big year for the rising independent country artist. After garnering massive success in 2023, Sam Barber kicked off the new year with a pretty big achievement – his first ever gold certified record. As of today, January 3rd, “Straight and Narrow” has officially sold 500,000 units, earning a gold. certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Straight and Narrow is by far Barber’s most popular song to date. With over 107 million streams on Spotify alone, the track garnered a ton of attention on social media, especially on TikTok where the young artist currently…