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April will shower country fans in the form of new music releases all month long. The Boot takes a look at the CDs, downloads and vinyl treasures in store in the coming weeks!

Just because Shelby Lynne titled her most recent studio album Revelation Road doesn't mean the singer-songwriter, who produced the album, played all the instruments and released the outstanding CD on her own Everso Records, intended to reveal more of her life story than she had with any of her previous albums...

Musician Steve Earle, who rose to mainstream country stardom as part of the new traditionalist movement in the mid-1980s, has revealed to an Australian website that he is currently writing his memoirs. The singer-songwriter, who scored both country and rock hits for himself and others and enjoyed widespread critical acclaim, battled drug addiction in the '90s and earned a jail sentence, serving ou

Steve Earle could be music's poster child for multi-tasking. In recent months, he's been almost constantly in the public eye as a supporter of public union workers in Wisconsin and beyond, traveling with his wife Allison Moorer and her sister Shelby Lynne for their Side by Side tour, and touring with Joan Baez, supporting her album 'Day After Tomorrow,' which Steve produced...

Steve Earle is throwing even more support behind public worker unions, many of which are are currently battling to keep their rights to collective bargaining. The legendary musician has just released the songs 'Harlan Man' and 'The Mountain' on a special two-track digital single, with all proceeds benefiting the America Votes Labor Unity Fund via SaveWorkers...

Steve Earle is throwing hardcore support behind union workers. The legendary musician plans to dedicate his SIRIUS XM radio show this weekend to public employees in Wisconsin who are battling their governor's plan to put a stop to unions' collective bargaining rights...

Steve Earle has announced the follow up album to his 2009 Grammy Award-winning project, 'Townes.' The Americana icon's new 11-track, T Bone Burnett-produced album, 'I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive,' will be available April 26 on New West Records...

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't think 2010 was Miranda Lambert's year. From her engagement to Blake Shelton to her first No. 1 with 'White Liar' to being named the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year, not to mention Album of the Year for 'Revolution' and Music Video of the year for 'The House That Built Me,' Miranda's had lots of reasons to smile this past year...

One of the biggest stories in the wake of the devastating flood that attacked middle Tennessee earlier this year was the millions of dollars lost in instruments and other musical gear from some of country music's biggest stars, including Vince Gill, Brad Paisley and LeAnn Rimes...

Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer may have been the headliners of their Side-by-Side tour that stopped for two nights at the legendary Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, but young John Henry Earle stole the show. During the sisters' encore at the November 29 show, Allison held 7-month old John Henry (her son with fellow musician Steve Earle) in her arms as she sang...