Nashville Music Scene w/ Jerry Holthouse

Stony Plain Records announces a February 8 release date for Amour, a new CD teaming the roots music guitar talents of Colin Linden and Luther Dickinson. The CD was produced by Colin Linden, recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, and features a backing band dubbed “The Tennessee Valentines:” Dominic Davis …

Breakthrough singer/songwriter Mitchell Tenpenny achieved country’s biggest new artist debut of 2018. On Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, Tenpenny made his first album entry by amassing 20,000 units of his Telling All My Secrets (Riser House/Columbia Nashville), the best first-week showing for a major label country debut album last year. “What an incredible gift …

     On January 4, 1969, Dolly Parton was fresh off the release of her first solo album released on RCA Records Nashville, the now-seminal Just Because I’m A Woman, and on that date the singer-songwriter received the biggest accomplishment of her then-young career: being inducted as a Grand Ole …

If I had to bet on the next band to achieve super stardom I’d put my money on Nashville’s own alt-rock-five-piece band Moon Taxi, formed right here in Nashville in 2006. I first saw them at the Exit/In many years ago and have tried to catch every local show since, watching …

The show that made country music famous was a place of celebration leading in to the upcoming holiday week tonight, recognizing Opry staff musician Jimmy Capps’ 60th anniversary of Opry performances and inviting longtime favorite Mark Wills to become an official part of the Opry family. Musicians Hall of Famer …

Hit songwriter John Scott Sherrill, who has laughingly threatened to “lay down in front of the bulldozers” on demolition day for Music Row’s iconic landmark, Bobby’s Idle Hour, will play one last time before the honky tonk closes at the end of January. Sherrill, who has been celebrating the venue …

In the spirit of the giving season, Grand Ole Opry member Dustin Lynch returned to his hometown of Tullahoma, TN, for his fifth annual Dustin Lynch & Friends Benefit Concert on December 11, raising $25,000 for local children’s charities. Over the last five years, Lynch has raised nearly $100,000 for …

Robert Ellis is set to return with Texas Piano Man on Valentine’s Day 2019 via New West Records. The 11-song set was co-produced by Ellis and Niles City Sound (Leon Bridges) in Fort Worth, TX and is largely comprised of songs written by Ellis, an accomplished guitarist, on grand piano. …

Nashville America Records has released three very special singles this holiday season. A song by Freddie Hart entitled “At This Time Of Year”; David Frizzell sings “Lil Burro” from his original Christmas collection Barnyard Christmas; and “Bethlehem,” which also appeared on Barnyard Christmas, originally by Frizzell, but on this cut …

Today, three-time Grammy Award-winning country star Trisha Yearwood released her new album, Let’s Be Frank—a collection of the singer’s favorite songs by Frank Sinatra. The album arrives today for a limited time exclusively in Williams Sonoma stores nationwide and on www.williams-sonoma.com/trisha until its release everywhere on February 15, 2019. Yearwood …