Jada Vance considers her new single, “Rear View Revival,” something of a personal anthem.
 
The singer/songwriter has been through a rough spell these past few years, from bullying in high school, bad relationships and her father’s shocking suicide due to drug abuse. Although “Rear View Revival” is not specifically about those issues, it is her way of dealing with the past in a positive way.
 
“It talks about putting your hands in the air and leaving the bad stuff behind,” Vance said. “I’ve had to hit my knees several times and pray to God that he will help me move forward.”

Her AmericanaFest show acclaimed as one of the week’s highlights, Barnett prepares to take new music on the road.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mandy Barnett laughs when she’s asked “What took you so long?” to make Strange Conversation, her progressive take on the postmodern American songbook. It was released today, September 21, 2018, on Dame Productions via Thirty Tigers. 

Sure, she’s a classicist who’s channeled Patsy Cline in a theatrical musical, recorded classic country songs with legendary producer Owen Bradley, and transfixed known musicos Seymour Stein, Arif Mardin and Ahmet Ertegun with her timeless stylings. But Barnett, who signed her first major label deal at age 12, decided she needed a change.

From Forthcoming Album New Freedom Blues, out October 26

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — September 21, 2018 — Today, noted bluegrass group Town Mountain unveils “Down Low” featuring Tyler Childers, the third single from their forthcoming record. Late last year, banjo player Jesse Langlais and Childers teamed up to write what would become the closing cut for their forthcoming record, New Freedom Blues . "To me 'Down Low' has a Waylon vibe, which is a damn good vibe to have," Langlais says. "My favorite line in the song, which was a Tyler line, is, 'I've been getting into meanness on the dark end of the street.' Ahh, that's downright lonesome."

​The track is available today on Amazon , Apple Music , and Spotify . 

Set for release on October 26, 2018 , New Freedom Blues and Town Mountain’s upbeat, live performances have been praised by outlets like the Bluegrass Situation , SiriusXM, No Depression, American Songwriter , and Rolling Stone , who recently named the group an Artist You Need to Know . Town Mountain will appear at IBMA and continue on a Southeast tour throughout November, proceeding a December tour with Tyler Childers (full dates below).

19 Cities: Back-to-Back Nights for Two Unique Shows
Including One Night at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium
 
Verified Fan Registration: Friday, Sept. 21 10am CT
 
Tickets Inside the Stage Exclusively via New Eric Church App
 
Tickets on Sale to General Public Same Day as Desperate Man Album Release: Friday, October 5

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Eric Church’s October 5 Desperate Man release is one of the year’s most anticipated albums, and now fans have even more reasons to look forward to its release date: 37 of them to be exact. 
 
Church’s 2019 Double Down Tour will see this month’s American Songwriter cover artist visit 19 cities (list below) to perform six albums worth of material across two very different nights of music as well as a stadium-sized tour stop in Nashville, Tennessee, more than doubling the capacity where he previously set Bridgestone Arena’s attendance record upon the finale stop of his Holdin’ My Own Tour in 2017. ​

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band have shared a new song, "You Can't Steal My Shine," the opening track from their upcoming album Poor Until Payday. The track is currently streaming on Popmatters who writes, "The Rev lives up to his name here, bringing the house down with a scorching hymnal that is bound to pack rooms with hand-clapping, foot-stomping singalongs. The full breadth of Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band can be felt here, oozing with full-bodied rock authenticity from start to finish." Poor Until Payday will be released on October 5th, via the band's own Family Owned Records label through Nashville indie Thirty Tigers. The album is currently available for pre-order here.
 
Listen: The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - "You Can't Steal My Shine"
https://soundcloud.com/thirtytigers/you-cant-steal-my-shine/s-0QLhW

The group recently released a video for the album's title track, which Guitar World notes, "features 300 volunteers, two closed roads in two different towns, one 1962 tow truck, one 1970 Cadillac Deville and a lot of fantastic slide playing." The colorful street scene that the Rev commands in the video encapsulates the riotous energy that he and his Big Damn Band have been bringing to the stage for years. Watch "Poor Until Payday" here: https://youtu.be/7qkjbQBEhvg

(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) – Possums save Christmas in the quirky new holiday song, “Fly Possum Fly,” from Grant Maloy Smith and EmiSunshine.
 
The pair recorded both a country and a bluegrass version at Creative Workshop Studios in Nashville, singing about flying possums that fill in for Santa’s reindeer, after Rudolph comes down with the flu.
 
“The concept may seem silly, but it’s so clever,” EmiSunshine said. “It’s informative and funny at the same time. Who knew possums had 50 teeth!”
 
“When we were in the studio, I felt like I had gone back in time and was singing with a 14-year-old Dolly Parton,” Smith said. “Emi has that kind of voice, that caliber of talent, and such a sparkling personality.”

Aaron Troyer has been writing and releasing music for well over a decade and recently he released the debut single from his latest project, The Blue Winter.
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"Alive" is an artisanal slice of folk-rock served on a bed of organic instruments with rich, soaring vocals that will make you forget that summer is quickly slipping away. The track's sincere words come from a place of pining, that feeling of being in a relationship where things have gone stale and wishing you could go back to a time when things were better; when you felt “Alive.”

(Press Release) Hush Kids, the new collaboration between Nashville veterans Jill Andrews and Peter Groenwald, will release their self-titled debut album on October 26th via Tone Tree Music. Produced by Ian Fitchuk (of recent Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour success), Hush Kids journeys across the unexpected, the strangeness of love rather than the sweetness, and the beauty of the world rather than the delirium. Today they released their new single "What's Your Hurry," debuted by Billboard, which they described as "a song about chilling the hell out."
 
Listen to "What's Your Hurry" HERE.
Stream via Spotify and Apple Music.
 
"It's always easy to write the heartbreak or the sad songs; It's not always easy to write a feel-good, cruisin' down the highway song, and that's what we were trying to do, something easy breezy," Groenwald told Billboard. Andrews added, "We were thinking about the idyllic kind of living, where you can sit back and hang with the world that's around you and be with people who are around you, and your families, It's kind of a wake-up call to ourselves about that."