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Joshua Hedley's new song “I Never (Shed A Tear)” is premiering today (listen HERE). The song is second track unveiled from Hedley's highly anticipated debut album Mr. Jukebox, which will be released April 20 on Third Man Records and is now available forpre-order.

Mr. Jukebox, the highly anticipated debut album from Joshua Hedley, will be released April 20 on Third Man Records and is now available for pre-order. Hedley will tour throughout 2018 in support of the record, including stops at SXSW, High Water Festival, Stagecoach and Pickathon as well as album release shows at Brooklyn's Union Pool, Nashville's The Basement East and L.A.'s The Roxy and Hi Hat.

Becca Mancari Announces Tour Dates with Joseph

Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and performer Brent Cobb will extend his Ain't A Road Too Long tour including newly confirmed stops in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Denver among many others.

Critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter Brandy Clark announces 2018 North American dates, which include tours with Dwight Yoakam and Sugarland.

Brandi Carlile performs on KCRW'S Morning Becomes Eclectic

After a banner 2017 that marked the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album Good Woman, Nashville's Becca Mancari is announcing 2018 tour dates with Nikki Lane, The Lone Bellow, and The Weeks.

Brandi Carlile performed her new single The Joke as well as a web exclusive version of The Mother on last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Nora Jane Struthers has written 'some of the most quietly powerful narratives within the new wave of Americana artists,' says Ann Powers of NPR Music. The songs that last decades and weave themselves into the fabric of listeners' lives are usually the ones in which an artist lays her soul bare for the world to hear. Struthers' new album Champion, due out October 13 on Blue Pig Records, is built on these kinds of songs.

Brandi Carlile's new song, The Mother, is premiering today (listen/share HERE). Of the song, Carlile explains, 'Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind ' To some, this sounds like the realization of their most sacred dreams true companionship.

Anderson East's All On My Mind is #1 this week at Triple A radio (both BDS and mediabase). Written by Ed Sheeran, Johnny McDaid, Anderson East and Aaron Raitiere, All On My Mind is East's first single to reach #1 and was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb and Elektra Records President Gregg Nadel.

Brandi Carlile's new song, The Mother, is premiering today. Of the song, Carlile explains, 'Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind ' To some, this sounds like the realization of their most sacred dreams true companionship. For some, this sacrifice is too much to bear and requires its own brand of radical forgiveness. For the most part and for me, it's equal measures of both. I am not just a mother, but it's all that I am.

Brent Cobb is nominated for Best Americana Album at the 60th GRAMMY Awards for his major label debut, Shine On Rainy Day.

Today, UPROXX premiered the video for the album's title track and said, '...she's perfected a cosmic roots sound that has its origins in the earthy sounds of traditional music, but that spreads ever outward, into the future.'

Acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Brent Cobb will embark on an extensive headline tour in 2018. The Ain't A Road Too Long tour will kick off February 16 at Memphis' 1884 Lounge

Acclaimed vocalist and one of the most revered popular singers of her generation Lizz Wright comes to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu today, October 12 at 8 p.m.

The Nashville-based singer and songwriter Becca Mancari releases her debut album Good Woman today via Gold Tooth Records. The album is now available for streaming and purchase

Brent Cobb's new single Ain't A Road Too Long premiered yesterday at NPR Music and can now be heard/shared HERE and purchased HERE (Low Country Sound/Elektra Records).