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Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn, are adjusting to life as a family of four after their second child, Kodi Jane, was born on Dec. 30. The couple's oldest child, two-year-old Kingsley, is now a big sister -- and by the looks of things, she's a natural at it.On Saturday (Jan. 7), Katelyn shared a sweet series of photos of the two kids, with Kingsley's love for her baby sister on full display. The pictures show her snuggling and holding baby Kodi, while in one, she adorably plants a kiss...

Grace Slick in a blue velvet suit. Gram Parsons bashing a tambourine. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young appearing like they like each other. Altamont will be forever known as the death of the Sixties, but the Library of Congress just made it a little sunnier with previously unreleased footage. The 30-minute clip — released via the Congress’ blog — contains no sound, with a fuzzy home video quality that looks as if your drunk aunt filmed your backyard family barbecue. And yet it shows that contrary to how it was...

Michael Lang, the concert impresario who helped conceive the landmark, generation-defining 1969 music festival Woodstock, died Saturday night at Sloan Kettering hospital in New York. He was 77. Michael Pagnotta, a rep for Lang and longtime family friend, confirmed the promoter’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Alongside businessmen John Roberts and Joel Rosenman and music industry promoter Artie Kornfeld, Lang, who had previously promoted the 1968 Miami Pop festival, co-created the Woodstock Music and Art Fair the following year. Famously billed...

Marilyn Bergman, the songwriting giant and music industry fixture who, with her husband Alan, wrote the lyrics to Oscar-winning songs like Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and Michel Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Mind,” has died at the age of 93. Bergman’s representative Ken Sunshine confirmed Marilyn’s death from non-Covid-related respiratory failure to the Hollywood Reporter Saturday. She is survived by her husband and collaborator Alan, who is 96. “It is with deep sadness that I personally, and all of ASCAP, mourn the passing of Marilyn Bergman, one of...

Eric Church isn't afraid to raise a little hell and be an outsider -- and with that attitude and his outlaw country vibes, he's been able to build an incredibly successful country music career from the ground up. But there are three people that get him to show his tender side: his two sons, Boone and Hawk, and his wife, Katherine Blasingame.Church's wife, a music publisher, was in the music business before he was, and they met through work: "She was trying to hook me up to write with one of her writers...

Mitch Timbanard is hoping his Covid test comes back positive. The 47-year-old Orange County, California resident is one of many Wilco fans anxiously awaiting the band’s SkyBlueSky festival in Cancun. The multi-day fest is scheduled to begin January 17th and feature Spoon, Kurt Vile, Stephen Malkmus and Thundercat, among others. But as the Omicron variant surges and promoter Cloud 9 has shown no signs of giving refunds for several thousand-dollar resort/ticket packages, Timbanard’s left with the difficult decision of going to Mexico and getting stuck down there if he catches...

Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town are jumping back on the bandwagon together. First thing Friday morning (Jan. 7), the fivesome announced the reunification of their 2018 Bandwagon Tour, which will run through spring 2022.Part 2 of the tour — which Lambert calls "one of the most fun tours" she's ever done — will kick off on May 6 in Houston, with dates scattered across the East Coast and Midwest before it wraps up in Camden, N.J., on June 11.The Cadillac Three will serve as the support act on all of...

Maddie & Tae pay tribute to their husbands’ selfless love on their new song, “Strangers.” The soaring ballad finds the duo’s Madison Font and Taylor Kerr reflecting on their lives before meeting their significant others, and how much love has turned their lives around.“How were we ever strangers? / Seems crazy to me now / Haven't I known you forever? / 'Cause the thought of the days without / You and all your love / Have all but disappeared / I'll never be convinced, baby, that you wеren't always here...

Sam Elliott is one of the biggest stars in the star-studded cast of the new Yellowstone prequel, 1883, and he comes to the show with huge credentials. In an interview with Taste of Country prior to the show's launch, Elliott's co-star, LaMonica Garrett, shares what it's like to work one-on-one with the movie icon.Elliott plays the character of Shea Brennan on 1883, which also stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as James and Margaret Dutton. Their characters are the great-great-grandparents of Yellowstone's John Dutton (Kevin Costner), and the show follows...

Eli Young Band are kicking off the new year with a brand new song, "Love Talking." Written by Jeffrey East, Eric Arjes and frontman Mike Eli, it tells the story of a guy who courageously confesses his feelings to his love interest.Unlike most country songs, this one isn’t an alcohol-driven, spur-of-the-moment action. As the persona admits, he's “never been more sober” and simply “can’t blame a liquor buzz” for being head over heels in love.“When I said you're the only one I'm ever gonna need, I'm ever gonna want / Don't know...

Fifty-five years ago today (Jan. 7, 1967) was an historic day for country music: It was on that date that Charley Pride became the first Black singer to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.Pride was only the second Black performer ever to play at the Opry, following harmonica player DeFord Bailey, who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry from 1927 to 1941. At the time of his Opry debut, Pride had just earned his first Top 10 single, "Just Between You and Me," a song from his sophomore album, The Pride of Country Music; he had...

It may be 2022, but Caroline Jones still can’t get over 2021.In the month of November alone, the singer-songwriter found herself experiencing dream after dream come true, from performing on the CMA Awards stage alongside Zac Brown Band, to opening for The Rolling Stones, to stepping on the stage of the iconic Grand Ole Opry.“Oh, and I also released my sophomore album Antipodes on November 12th,” Jones chuckles during an interview with The Boot. “We also did a bunch of album release shows too, and of course we were on tour with...

Arista Records/Monument Records has released the theme song for the hotly-anticipated new country music drama Monarch. Performed by singer-songwriter Caitlyn Smith, "The Card You Gamble" sets the stage for an epic showdown."Sometimes you get diamonds, sometimes you get coal / There ain't no way of knowing which way it's gonna go / It can make you feel like you're on top of the world or leave you all in shambles / Depending on how the dice is rolled, your heart is the card you gamble," Smith sings over sultry guitar licks in the chorus.The song was written...

In 2004, Gretchen Wilson put out her breakthrough debut studio project, Here for the Party. The album produced four Top 10 singles, including her chart-topping signature smash, "Redneck Woman." But even though she was at the top of her game, Wilson admits that back then, she questioned her place in country music."Everybody just seemed classier than me," she admitted to Taste of Country at the CMA Awards in 2013. "You know, I felt like ... you ever walk into someplace where you're supposed to have on a suit and tie, and...