Last night, the Country Music Association held its annual CMA Awards in Nashville. The idea was for this to be a “no drama” evening — a regular in-person event, like the kinds we used to get before the pandemic. That’s not quite what happened. Various announced performers — Florida Georgia Line, ...

For many years, Brandy Clark, a singer and songwriter from rural Washington State, has been working within the Nashville country establishment. As an in-demand songwriter, she's worked with bigger names like Miranda Lambert and Kasey Musgraves. (Clark co-wrote Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart" and Musgraves' "Follow Your Arrow.") Clark has also ma...

Miranda Lambert is busy these days. Tomorrow, the long-reigning country star will release her new album Wildcard, and she's been dropping advance singles like crazy over the past few months. Right now, she's also on tour with an excellent rotating lineup of women -- including Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, and her own side-project supergroup Pist...

This fall, the country music superstar Miranda Lambert will release the new album Wildcard, and she'll also head out on a huge arena tour that'll double as a sort of statement about female solidarity within the Nashville-country ranks. Lambert's tour is going to have a lot of openers. Lambert herself will perform solo and with…

This fall, the pop-country superstar Miranda Lambert is coming back with the new LP Wildcard. Following up the heavy-hearted, divorce-themed 2017 double album The Weight Of These Wings, Lambert has shown every indication that she's coming with something bright and playful this time. Lambert has lately been steadily cranking out new singles from ...