Amanda Wicks
Amanda Wicks is a culture writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Vulture, Pitchfork, The Bluegrass Situation, Paste, and elsewhere. She currently lives in North Carolina.
Sara Watkins Announces New Album Under the Pepper Tree
The children's album will be released March 26 via New West Records.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Tim Easton - 'You Don't Really Know Me'
The roots-infused title track appears on his forthcoming tenth album, You Don't Really Know Me.
INTERVIEW•One Hot Minute: The War and Treaty
Americana, gospel or soul - The War and Treaty have it covered. Holler spoke to the duo about their latest album, fusing genres and holding on to hope in difficult times.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Kelsey Lamb - 'Let It Break'
What if you just want to wallow in heartbreak?
OPINION•Clearing Space for Sober Stories in Country Music
As country reckons with its need for greater diversity - across gender, race, and sexuality - the same goes for its storytelling. It’s time for new tales about alcohol and its aftermath.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Dallas Burrow - 'Born Down in Texas'
Burrow's new single crackles with Texas heat.
Jake Hoot shares new song 'Somethin' We Can Slow Dance To'
Rising country star Jake Hoot has shared a new song, 'Somethin' We Can Slow Dance To', from his debut EP Love Out of Time.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: F. Scott & the Nighthawks - 'Stevie Girl'
Toronto’s rollicking country-rock band F. Scott & the Nighthawks take a more sentimental note on their new single.
INTRODUCING•New Artist of the Week: Bridget Caldwell
Caldwell's songwriting examines life’s darker moments and translates that pain in moving – and cathartic – ways.
INTRODUCING•New Artist of the Week: Matthew Fowler
Fowler's new single 'I'm Still Trying' details how one failure tends to highlight them all.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Lauren Davidson - 'Silver Linings'
Even with the chaos of life swirling around Davidson “like a carousel”, she doesn’t let it get her down.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Joe Bourdet - 'Lost Along the Way'
Bourdet's newest single has 60s folk-inspired sound.
INTERVIEW•Cuts The Deepest: Sara Watkins
Watkins spoke with Amanda Wicks about the songs she connected to most as a child, why it was important for her to record a family-friendly album and takes us deeper into Under the Pepper Tree.
INTRODUCING•Video Premiere: Wesley Dean - ‘Gypsy’
Dean sheds his earlier polished sound for a more raw - and honest - approach to songwriting.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Jason Eady - 'French Summer Sun'
More than any other music genre, country loves to tell a story. Eady’s new single 'French Summer Sun' elevates that form.
INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Sierra Ferrell - 'The Sea'
The singer/songwriter's debut weaves together multiple influences into country and folk.
INTERVIEW•In Conversation: Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens searched for a salve in the one place she knew where to find it: music. But it wasn't enough to write her way through her feelings of longing and loss. She needed the community that collaboration offered — the way that it, too, could be a home.
INTRODUCING•New Artist of the Week: Noah Hicks
The Georgia-born singer-songwriter has turned his early passion for music into a career penning honest songs.
Kris Kristofferson Officially Retires From Music
The 84-year-old's last performance was at Outlaw Country Cruise in 2020.
INTRODUCING•New Artist of the Week: Ross Cooper
Ross Cooper's Western country is heavily influenced by his time in the rodeo riding broncs.
ALBUM REVIEW•Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers
Breakup albums are well-worn folk territory, but Andrews brings fresh perspective to the larger picture of loss and sorrow on her beautiful album Old Flowers.
Ruston Kelly announces livestream show Stream & Destroy
The show will stream live from Nashville on February 19
INTERVIEW•In Conversation: Amanda Shires
If one person raising their voice starts the conversation, then more raised voices start the movement.
INTERVIEW•Cuts The Deepest: Hiss Golden Messenger
M.C Taylor is crafting an ongoing investigation into existential matters: of identity and self, of family and fatherhood, of faith, of art and what happens when it has to “pay the rent”. The result is one of the most profound and insightful catalogues from a contemporary musician.
INTRODUCING•Video Premiere: Bill and the Belles - 'People Gonna Talk'
The band tapped Mehitabel and the What’s Their Name Brothers for their quirky ode to small town residents.
Esther Rose Announces New Album How Many Times
She also shared the title-track from her forthcoming third album.
Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard Perform 'Undivided' at Inauguration Concert
The duo released their new single this past week.