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To hear Brent Cobb tell it, you can draw a line from today’s class of the most celebrated country artists straight back to Shooter Jennings’ debut album, 2005’s Put the O Back in Country. One of the first LPs produced by Dave Cobb, it helped forge relationships between the Grammy-winning producer, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Jamey Johnson, and some of Nashville’s best musicians, like guitarists Leroy Powell and Jason “Rowdy” Cope.

“I know for a fact that Jamey heard Shooter’s album and wanted to record an album with Dave,...

Opening with a slashing guitar riff and the wail of singer Cody Cannon, Whiskey Myers’ new song “Die Rockin'” is a blast of potent rock & roll with a Southern flavor. “I’m gonna rock until I die/I’m gonna die rockin’,” Cannon sings, letting you know exactly where he lands on the rock versus pop debate.

“Die Rockin’,” written by Cannon with Texas country rebel Ray Wylie Hubbard, is the first release off the Texas band’s upcoming self-titled album, out September 27th.

“I wrote ‘Die Rockin’’ with the...

Adam Hood’s last video for “She Don’t Love Me” found the songwriter buried alive by a heartless ex. In his latest clip for the song “Downturn,” off his superb album Somewhere in Between, he’s nowhere to be found.

Instead, Hood cedes the spotlight to a pair of actors, who play a small-town couple driving through their day. They stop for lunch, bop into a bar to dance and nearly get into a fight with a patron. It’s a road trip fraught not with outsized drama, but...