Taylor Swift is making a return to her country roots with song ‘New Year’s Day’. The country-pop mega-star is the closing song on Swift’s brand-new album, Reputation, which focuses on darker pop tracks, including “Look What You Made Me Do” and “… Ready for It?” The pop-influenced piano ballad is every bit as much of …
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This year’s Country Music Association Awards was undoubtedly one of its most political as natural disasters, gun violence and politics dominate current affairs. “This has been a year marked my tragedy … Tonight we’re going to do what families do, come together, pray together, cry together and sing together, too,” said Underwood, who co-hosted the …
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The Country Music Association has announced additional performers for the 51st CMA Awards. New performers include Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Pink, Keith Urban and an opening collaboration featuring Eric Church, Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker and Keith Urban. The all-star event also includes performances by Garth Brooks, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, …
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Gold ‘n’ Rum: The Orange Circus Band As The Orange Circus Band builds its reputation on the continent, Maverick caught up with lead vocalist Flash Hearth to talk about new video Gold ‘n’ Rum and the UK bluegrass scene that is rapidly gathering pace… What was it like filming your new video, Gold ‘n’ Rum? …
Popular rockin’ Country sister trio, Southern Halo, will be special guests of the British Country Music Association Awards on October 22. The American girl group, nominated in the International Act of the Year (Touring) award category, have also been invited to perform and to present an award to another of the evening’s hopefuls. The entertainers …
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Old Dominion are excited to have been announced as the winner of ACM Newcomers New Vocal Group Of The Year award. They shared their delight on their official Facebook page, ‘Unbelievable. Thank you thank you thank you’ they exclaimed. The band’s first win at the ACM Awards, they are also nominated for vocal group of …
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New To You… JULES WINCHESTER It is not often that respected professional musicians press me to interview someone who just released a first album-but that is what happened after Jules Winchester launched SOMETHING IN THOSE EYES, her debut album. The record is a joy, as has been widely recognised by the music press. Every track …
A film by Sara Terry Sara Terry, the producer/director of FOLK, is an award winning journalist-in print, public radio, and photojournalism. FOLK is her second documentary. The project web site describes FOLK as “a verite character study, part music documentary, part road trip movie-a multi-layered examination of three artists at dramatically different points in their …
Taylor Hicks takes the Nashville road to new album If the music industry is a game of chess, then Taylor Hicks is the black knight, carving an indirect path across the board. Equally as likely to move forward as back, he is more than likely to give his hips a good shake as he goes. …
Maverick finds out more about Michael Bongertman from River Seven Michael Bongertman is the lead singer and guitarist of the Canadian three-piece rock band River Seven, who released their exciting self-titled debut album in February 2012. With Michael in the band are bass guitarist Peter Anzelmo and drummer Tony Carpino. The band manage to mix …
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