Music

The Nashville resident plays three songs from his latest album, Horizons. Recorded at Riverfront Revival in North Charleston, South Carolina.

The six-piece band has launched well beyond its wild days at App State but still knows how to throw it down

The Alabama native and Navy veteran performs three songs, including “After Me?” Recorded at Riverfront Revival in North Charleston, South Carolina.

The tireless Reba isn’t afraid to start over

Roomy new venues join well-trodden stages and a rocking history

The Clarksdale juke joint rings in a quarter century at the crossroads

Forty years of Dollywood, a Broadway show, and a hotel later, Parton is going strong at eighty

Across the Region

Fresh off its seventy-fifth birthday, the Longhorn Ballroom debuts an open-air venue

Charleston will welcome the likes of Béla Fleck, Ken Burns, and Brandi Carlile to the performing arts festival, which marks its fiftieth season

Six years after his death, a new biography examines the talent, charm, and heartbreak of the man behind the music

The Georgia-born singer-songwriter performs three songs, including his breakout single, “Boys Back Home.” Recorded at Riverfront Revival in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Nashville’s greatest new honky-tonk is a seventy-five-year-old downtown landmark

A statement release from a powerhouse North Carolina band, a country star’s bold experiment, the debut from a Muscle Shoals duo, and seven more albums that made our music columnist’s year-end list of favorites

The country megastar’s first book is “a love letter” to his creative art

A conversation with Scott Avett, of the North Carolina roots favorite, and Faith No More’s legendary frontman on the year’s most unexpected musical collaboration

A new book and Country Music Hall of Fame exhibition tell how a small Alabama community helped put Aretha Franklin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Willie Nelson, and other greats on the map

Vince Gill, Bill Anderson, Ashley McBryde, long-serving employees, and more Opry insiders speak to a dozen-plus moments that cemented the institution as country music’s biggest stage

From a joyful anthem from the Queen of Bounce to a Southern supergroup’s debut release, our music editor picks ten favorite new tracks that will keep your autumn humming

The Grammy-winning artist looks back at her 1998 live album, which has been newly reissued with five previously unreleased songs—one of which G&G is proud to premiere here.