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They're three albums and a heap of trophies and awards nominations into their career now, but five years ago, Brothers Osborne were country up-and-comers releasing their debut album. The sibling duo's first full-length record, Pawn Shop, debuted on Jan. 15, 2016.Deale, Md., natives John and TJ Osborne were four singles deep into their career by the time they released Pawn Shop. Three of those songs, "Rum" (a gold-certified Top 30 single), "Stay a Little Longer" (platinum-certified, went to No. 2) and "21 Summer" (it peaked at No. 24), appear on the project,...

Juice WRLD and Young Thug reunite in the new “Bad Boy” video. According to a statement, the Cole Bennett-directed, Lyrical Lemonade-produced visual marks the final official music video Juice WRLD filmed before he died in December 2019. In the new visual for the Pierre B’ourne produced track, the rappers reference 1995 action film, Bad Boys, where Martin Lawrence and Will Smith portray narcotics detectives. In the music video, the pair cruise the streets and later meet up with a group of people whose identities are obscured with face paint. “Will...

Willie Nelson is among the many Americans who have received their first round of vaccination against COVID-19. While getting vaccinated, the 87-year-old country music legend posed for several pictures that Family Hospital Systems posted to Facebook on Wednesday (Jan. 13), encouraging the public, "Getting your COVID vaccine is Willie cool!"The pictures below show Nelson receiving his vaccination while sitting in a car at a drive-in site. The iconic singer-songwriter and guitarist gets a shot in the upper part of his left arm in one image, and he flashes the camera...

English singer-songwriter Passenger has shared a new mix of his track, “Sword From the Stone,” co-produced by Ed Sheeran. Sheeran and Joe Rubel helmed the so-called “Gingerbread Mix,” in which they transform the airy original with some extra punch in the piano, shuffle in the drums and other atmospheric touches that lend the song a pop sheen without sacrificing any feeling from the original. “Sword and the Stone” appears on Passenger’s new album, Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted, which arrived January 8th. A version of the album was...

The Eagles have some of the highest songwriting standards of any mainstream musical group of the popular era, and they have collaborated with a slate of the top songwriters in the world. Their co-writers include Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Jack Tempchin ... and, somewhat incredibly, Patti Davis, Ronald and Nancy Reagan's daughter.Davis was romantically involved with Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon from 1974 until 1975, according to Eagles Online Central. The couple were living together, and Leadon heard Davis tinkering with the song one day, He helped her finish it,...

CJ Camerieri of yMusic and Sufjan Stevens have teamed up for new single, “Song of Trouble.” The track appears on upcoming LP CARM, Camerieri’s solo debut album that’s named after the moniker he records under. Cowritten and arranged by CARM and Stevens, the single is ushered in with French horns and trumpets, which buoy Stevens’ lyrics that grapple with trouble and implore for an end to it  — a sentiment made for these times. “Struggle, focus on the evidence/Struggle, so everything was made for this,” Stevens sings. “Struggle, rise above...

Garth Brooks is among the slate of artists who have been chosen to receive the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021.The Kennedy Center announced Brooks as one of the recipients of the 43rd Kennedy Center Honors on Wednesday (Jan. 13). He'll be honored in a ceremony that's been delayed until May alongside a slate of fellow honorees from across the spectrum of the arts, including artist, choreographer and actress Debbie Allen, singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez, violinist Midori and actor Dick Van Dyke.“The Kennedy Center Honors serves as a moment to...

Diane Warren is such a prolific — and relentless  —  songwriter that she was right in the middle of working on a new composition when she paused to join us for the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Warren, who has her first solo album, Diane Warren: The Cave Sessions Vol. 1, due later this year (with lead vocals from Darius Rucker, Celine Dion, John Legend, Mary J. Blige, and more), joined host Brian Hiatt to tell wild stories from more than three decades of hit-making. She...

Loretta Lynn remembered her late husband, Oliver Lynn Jr. (also known as "Doolittle"), on social media recently, in honor of what would have been the couple's 73rd anniversary.She also included a video clip of herself performing her song "I Can't Hear the Music," which is featured on her 2000 studio album Still Country."Today would be our 73rd anniversary. I can't believe it's been that long," Lynn writes in the caption of her post. "We fought hard and we loved hard. He was my biggest fan and the real force behind my career. He's the...

YFN Lucci is wanted by Atlanta police on a murder charge in connection with a shooting in the city on December 10th, which resulted in the death of James Adams and left another injured, as Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The Atlanta rapper, whose real name is Rayshawn Bennett, is wanted on murder, aggravated assault, participating in criminal street gang activity and weapons charges, Atlanta police announced on Tuesday. Two other men, Ra’von Boyd and Leroy Pitts, were arrested in Miami on similar charges for their alleged roles in the shooting. Adams...

Lil Nas X's 2019 smash, "Old Town Road" — specifically, the remix version featuring Billy Ray Cyrus — has become the most platinum-certified song in the history of the Recording Industry Association of America.The country-rap crossover hit marked the milestone on Jan. 9, as reported by Billboard. It was then that Lil Nas' and Billy Ray's "Old Town Road" reached 14 times platinum status in the U.S. for moving 14 million equivalent song units. Impressively, it's the most ever for a single in all of RIAA history.Both artists celebrated the achievement...

Yusuf/Cat Stevens has announced the children’s book Peace Train, out May 11th via HarperCollins. The book is in celebration of the song’s 50th anniversary; the track appeared on 1971’s Teaser and the Firecat. Yusuf has teamed up with Peter H. Reynolds for the book’s illustration. “I wrote these lyrics more than 50 years ago, and I know the words still boom as true and loud today as they did in the Seventies,” Yusuf said in a statement. “It’s incredible to see how Peter Reynolds has made the words jump into...

Morgan Wallen's duet with Chris Stapleton, "Only Thing That's Gone," is one of the more traditionally-inclined tracks on his newly released double album, Dangerous. However, the way the two artists' collaboration came together couldn't be more on-brand for the quarantine era."I got an email," Stapleton explained during a recent conversation with Taste of Country Nights, adding that to this day, he hasn't spent much time with Wallen in person. "I've only met him in passing, at some awards shows and things, but we've never really stood in a room together."It...