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Digital Cover Story: Zac Brown Band: Back to Business—”We Just Want to Put on the Greatest Show That We Can”
When a band gets big—when the group earns No. 1 records, Grammy Awards, and a string of sold-out tour dates in stadiums (including a spot opening up for The Rolling Stones)—it’s easy to forget where they’ve come from. It may not even be intended. But sometimes the roots can be lost for the sake of […] More
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Shooter Jennings and Yelawolf Question Musical Semantics with Sometimes Y
Referencing the grade-school linguistics lesson of how the letter “y” is considered both a consonant and “sometimes” a vowel, Shooter Jennings and rapper Yelawolf gave themselves creative freedom to explore whatever genre possible with Sometimes Y. “When you’re a kid in school, they teach you all these rules about spelling, but then they tell you […] More
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Jon Pardi Soars on New Single “Last Night Lonely”; Announces Ain’t Always The Cowboy Summer Tour Dates
Country singer Jon Pardi doesn’t have a rocket ship. The Nashville-based songwriter and performer knows this to be true (both literally and metaphorically). But that doesn’t stop him from sonically taking flight. For Pardi, his proverbial flying machine is much more akin to a warplane, he says, one of those double-winged metallic creatures that soar […] More
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Dustin Lynch Reaches for All the Stars on Fifth Album ‘Blue In The Sky’
Every day is an adventure, and Dustin Lynch is living his best life. Just back from Mexico, Lynch performed as part of Luke Bryan’s annual Crash My Playa event and debuted the new single “Party Mode,” off his fifth album Blue In The Sky (Broken Bow), out Feb. 11. “I got my tan on,” jokes […] More
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Digital Cover Story: Ingrid Michaelson Revisits ‘Songs For The Season,’ Writes Musical Adaptation of ‘The Notebook’
“I’m a self-proclaimed Christmas fanatic,” Ingrid Michaelson tells American Songwriter. “I’m in love with the Christmas holiday season. I start watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music in September. It’s a whole thing.” Releasing her first Christmas album Songs For The Season in 2018, Michaelson already knew she would expand on her festive collection […] More
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How a Burst of Creativity Led to Old Dominion’s New Album, ‘Time, Tequila & Therapy’
“Eventually, it got to a certain point where we were like, ‘How the hell do we be creative?’” Matthew Ramsey tells American Songwriter. That moment came last year as the initial daze of the world going into quarantine faded into a lingering sense of uncertainty. For most musicians, it was a surreal and difficult time—for […] More
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Imagine Dragons Process Time and Loss Through ‘Mercury – Act 1’
By the time Imagine Dragons finished touring around their fourth album Origins, the band decided to take a much-needed breath, and break, in 2019 after a decade on the road to work through loss and grief, along with breakdowns and breakthroughs in relationships and other tribulations all summarized on Mercury – Act 1. Written over […] More
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Greta Van Fleet Dot the Origins of ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’
In the three years since releasing their debut Anthem of the Peaceful Army—headlining shows in five continents and selling a million tickets within a three-year span—the trajectory of Greta Van Fleet is just as meteoric as the arena-rock deliverances of the Michigan-bred Fleet, made up of the Kiszka brothers, twins Josh and guitarist Jake, and […] More
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Pioneering Artist Jason Isbell Discusses the Evolving Role of His Guitar Throughout His Musical Journey
“I’m not sure if anyone writes songs with electric guitars anymore, but I certainly still do,” Jason Isbell tells American Songwriter from his home outside of Nashville. “Not because I think it’s better or anything, but just because that’s what I know.” A North Alabama native, Isbell was born to teenage parents within a broadly […] More
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The Revivalists’ David Shaw Reveals Debut Solo Album, Single “Got Me Feeling Good”
David Shaw is feeling good. Throughout the past two years, The Revivalists frontman has had time to set himself straight. Following The Revivalists’ tour around fourth album, 2018’s Take Good Care, Shaw found himself looking inward and revisiting songs he had brewing for years. Setting up a studio in the backyard of his New Orleans […] More
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Morgan Wallen: From Small Town Boy To Big Country Star
“It was a real smalltown,” Morgan Wallen told American Songwriter. “Everybody knew everybody, like, for real.” The town was Sneedville, the seat of Hancock County out in the hills of East Tennessee, and it’s where Wallen was born in 1993. With a population just under 1,400 and a median household income of $13,281, it might […] More
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