Matt Hendrickson

With all due respect to the annual “song of summer,” the season needs more than just one song

A sizzling return from a pioneering Stax powerhouse

The Avett Brothers return with a new album and a new outlook

Southern music history comes alive on the path between Memphis and Muscle Shoals

These seven Southern festivals will keep your summer rocking through Labor Day

Stream a song from his new album, The Couchville Sessions

Stream a song from the band’s upcoming album Toogoodoo

With a new album and more than five decades in music, the four-time Grammy winner looks back at her pioneering journey

Chris Stapleton has become country music’s most surprising new star—and has sent a shock wave through Nashville

A conversation with an outlaw icon and a modern Nashville rebel

A dozen rising acts shaking up the country scene

Local boys make Memphis blues sound positively ebullient on debut album

Sure, it’s still the middle of winter, but let us preemptively nominate the Song of the Summer

Blues & Ballads contains 21 songs, and there’s no filler

Minnesota might be several hundred miles from the Mason-Dixon line, but the Cactus Blossoms craft a vintage country sound akin to those other brother duos, Louvin and Everly

Ten great venues to put on your must-visit bucket list

With a knack for authentic songwriting and a voice that will move you, the artist has exploded onto the national stage — and given an old sound a burst of new energy

The artist returns with an album steeped in the power of renewal

It’s been an unbelievable year for Southern albums, songs, and artists

The musician plumbs a beautiful sadness on The Ghosts of Highway 20