Although they have fans all over the nation and Europe now, Shane Smith recently spoke on how special the fans from the Red Dirt scene are to them. Shane and their fiddle player, Bennett Brown, ...
Jason Boland, a Harrah, Oklahoma native, has occupied a powerful space at the core of one of country music's most essential Western inspirations for 25 years. After a decade of living the life of ...
The Turnpike Troubadours, a reunited "Red Dirt" country band, played a successful show at Nashville's new Pinnacle venue. The Pinnacle, a mid-sized venue, is ideal for independent-minded ...
The full lineup has officially been revealed, with country music heavyweights headlining each night. Friday, August 8, will ...
“We’ve heard what pop country’s answer was to that ... Boland is one of them, as well as a forefather of the Red Dirt genre. Long before the Turnpike Troubadours became its torchbearers ...
CAMBRIDGE, Ill. — Summer may feel far off, but the Henry County Fair is already gearing up to welcome people out to Cambridge, Illinois. This year, the grandstand concert will be headlined by ...
“It’s a little rock & roll, a little Americana, a little country & western.” Josh Crutchmer is a journalist and author whose third book, Red Dirt Unplugged, was released in December 2024 via ...
that he and his independent Red Dirt contemporaries have long felt — it may just be that country music is finally ready for Boland. Nearly every force driving the current renaissance in country ...