ARTIST INTERVIEWS

There are moments in country music when the calendar stops mattering. A song written three decades ago suddenly breathes again. A voice once associated with yesterday sounds startlingly present tense. And a songwriter long woven into the genre’s foundation steps back into the spotlight not as a legacy act, but as a man still mid-sentence. That’s where Skip Ewing finds himself in 2025. Skip recently sat down with All Country News to chat old hits, and new songs. Credit Linda G

They call it sister harmony, but that feels too small for what Presley & Taylor are building. Photo Courtesy Of Presley & Taylor Spend five minutes with the duo and you realize this isn’t just blood harmony, it’s shared breath. Shared memory. Shared nerve. In an industry that too often pits women against each other, Presley & Taylor are proof that there’s another way forward: lock eyes, hold the note, and don’t let go. The sisters recently sat down with All Country News to ch

After nine years of near silence as a recording act, The Band Perry didn’t tiptoe back into country music, they kicked the door off the hinges. Their new single, “PSYCHOLOGICAL,” is not a gentle reintroduction. It’s a velvet-lined spiral into romantic obsession, theatrical, unhinged, Southern Gothic, and unmistakably Perry. Built on a haunting piano figure and detonated by a waltzing, genre-bending arrangement, the track feels less like a comeback single and more like a state

Under the glow of a streetlight, everything feels a little more honest. The distractions dim. The noise softens. Memory and momentum meet in the same quiet frame. For country riser Michael Marcagi, that in-between space, reflective, restless, and revealing is exactly where his debut major-label LP, Under The Streetlights , was born. The breakout talent sat down with All Country news to dish all the details of the new project. Photo Credit: Jimmy Fontaine The project doesn’t j

Kenny Whitmire didn’t set out to write a viral hit, he set out to write a country song that felt true. The kind that tells a story, breaks a heart, and lingers like last call neon. What happened next says as much about where country music is headed as it does about Whitmire himself. Kenny Whitmire | Photo Credit: Austin Aguilar| Raised in Georgia and steeped in the sounds of Merle Haggard, Keith Whitley, Randy Travis, and Darrell Singletary, Whitmire has built his early buzz

Dax doesn’t treat temptation like a passing feeling, he treats it like a lifelong opponent. His new single, “Temptation,” lands less like a confession and more like a field manual, a faith-centered, genre-blending record that turns internal struggle into a call for discipline. Blending country-rooted storytelling with rap urgency and melodic lift, Dax delivers a track built on conviction rather than trend. The genre bender sat down with All Country News to chat the ins and ou

Billy Currington sounds exactly like you’d expect him to, relaxed, content, and maybe even a little sun-soaked. There’s an ease to his voice, the kind that comes from a man who’s done the chasing, earned the hits, and found something far more valuable on the other side: peace. He’s not chasing trends or proving anything, he’s simply making music that feels right. And that feeling? It’s written all over King of the World , his most easygoing and self-assured project yet. The c

In every artist’s story, there’s a moment where the curtain lifts, the fog clears, and the person behind the microphone takes a long, steady breath, ready to begin again. For Alexandra Kay, that moment has a name: Second Wind. Photo Credit: Alysse Gafkjen Her new album is more than a collection of songs. It’s a reckoning, a return to herself, an unraveling of heartbreak, and a rebuilding of spirit. “When I decided I was going to stop feeling sorry for myself, stop rotting in

After more than a decade of chart-toppers, platinum hits, and radio gold, most artists would start to ease off the gas. Not Chris Young. Ten albums deep, he’s not winding down, he’s roaring into a new chapter with his most liberated and vocally striking work yet. Chris sat down with All Country News and other news outlets to chat the ins and outs of his latest album I Didn’t Come Here To Leave. Photo Courtesy: Black River The Making of a Man Unwilling to Leave At this point i

Joshua Ray Walker has always been one of country music’s most inventive storytellers, a songwriter who doesn’t just sing songs, but builds universes . From the tender confessions of Wish You Were Here  to the blistering catharsis of See You Next Time , Walker has a gift for slipping into other lives and letting us feel them from the inside out. But his latest project, Stuff , might just be his most ambitious act of empathy yet, a concept album told entirely from the perspecti

There’s a subtle magic in the way Lauren Watkins captures life’s contradictions, its messy, beautiful, sometimes hilarious realities and...

Country music fans know Jillian Cardarelli as a voice of grit, grace, and storytelling heart. But this weekend, she’s stepping into...

In the foothills of South Carolina, tucked away in a town so small you might miss it if you blink, Blake Whiten learned the kind of...

There’s something rare in music when a voice carries the weight of a lifetime, yet refuses to be confined by expectation. Liam St. John’s...

For Bayker Blankenship, the line between life and art has always been a little blurry. But with his new single “Everything She Does,” the...

In an era where singles dominate streaming charts and TikTok snippets can launch careers overnight, Colby Acuff is walking a different...

From sorting mail in Ohio to commanding stages across the country, Preston Cooper’s journey to the country music spotlight has been...

Photo Provided Rising country star Jake Banfield  sat down with All Country News  for a wide-ranging conversation that touched on...