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Very few people really know what they want to do with their lives, much less from the time they’re only children. William Michael Morgan is one of those rare… […]

Among Warner Brothers/Reprise country star Blake Shelton’s favorite memories of growing up in Oklahoma is something his grandmother used to say, after young Blake first began playing music… […]

When Lyric Street Records went out of business last summer, LSR artist Trent Tomlinson didn’t hesitate a moment. He decided to put his new album out himself. […]

One of the least understood aspects for modern record companies and radio executives is social media, a business which unlike radio and records is seeing explosive growth in the second decade of the 21st… […]

For years, Music Row artists have used the tried-and-true and brutally expensive model of reaching country fans… […]

If you are familiar with the Red Dirt/Texas scene then the name Brandon Jackson should not be new to you. What you might not know is that Brandon has been performing since the age of 5. […]

Many musical acts, such as country group Rascal Flatts, owe a lot of their success to their “street teams,” groups of fans that publicize a band’s music, and… […]

Josh Thompson was making a comfortable living pouring concrete in Wisconsin, but something was missing.
“The normal life just won’t do,” Thompson said in October, as he prepared to head to a solo show outside Boston, and then rejoin […]