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Moakler's new project, 'Blue Jeans', tells the story of the decade and a half he's spent as a musician in Nashville.

"Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but at least we can go to sleep at night knowing that we made a decision based on our intuition and what we thought was right at the moment ..."

In a decade of growing awareness and success, one thing has remained the same: Americana’s stubborn resistance to easy explanations.

"It just kind of turned everything around for me, as far as airplay ..."

Davis is doing his part to equal the playing field for women in country, bringing Hailey Whitters and Kassi Ashton on his 2020 Trouble Town Tour.

Jenee Fleenor's historic nomination was the most important step forward for women in country music on the table at the 2019 CMA Awards -- and she won.

Garth Brooks' Entertainer of the Year victory -- his third in four years, and his seventh overall -- makes plain the flaws of the country music industry.

“[The opening performance is going have the audience] remembering what is amazing about women’s roles in country music -- what was amazing, what could be amazing,” says Carrie Underwood.

At the 2019 CMA Awards, Fleenor is the first-ever woman to receive a nomination for Musician of the Year.

"It will be stamped in my memory, of course, for the rest of my life," guitarist Rickey Medlocke says of Skynyrd's final show in the band's hometown of Jacksonville, Fla., which was taped for a live concert film.