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Like most of us these days, Lucinda Williams is at home.

The 2020 ACM Awards are moving from Las Vegas to Nashville.

With a bluesier new record, "Good Souls, Better Angels," just out, Williams tells Variety about the album's rawer sound, her raw nerves about Donald Trump, why she wrote more explicitly about domestic abuse, and the neighborliness of her new home, Nashville.

Ben Affleck was spotted running errands in Los Angeles while smoking a cigarette with his protective mask partially off. The 47-year-old actor has been spotted regularly with his new girlfriend, Ana de Armas, wearing masks while going for walks around town as the world tries to practice social distancing to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.

Rosanne Cash and John Paul White, formerly of The Civil Wars, have joined together on the new single “We’re All in This Together Now.” All proceeds from the song will benefit Nashville-based Music Health Alliance.While the gentle ballad wasn’t written during the coronavirus pandemic, the video reflects our current situation while we shelter-in-place and deal with the effects of COVID-19.

Joe & Martina are looking to do a little time travel in their video for “Give Me Back the ‘90s,” and they’ve got company.Joe and Martina Costa, who have opened for such acts as Blake Shelton, Jake Owen and Jon Pardi, as well as wrote “Don’t Tempt Me” for Luke Combs’ This One’s for You album, are joined by '90s sensation John Berry in the clip, which was shot outside longtime Music City landmark Nashville Palace.The song and video references other memorable artists who first hit in the ‘90s

Kobalt has promoted Chris Lakey to the role of senior vp, creative synch, it was announced Wednesday (April 22). He was previously vp, creative synch at the publisher.In his new role, Lakey will oversee the creative synch team out of the company’s Los Angeles office.Before joining Kobalt in 2008, the 20-year music industry veteran worked for eight years at Universal Music Publishing Group.

Clark, one of the icons of '90s country, joins "Doug Douglason" for a steamy duet in the satirical new single and forthcoming video.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has made an incredibly generous financial donation to organizations representing working songwriters: the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and Songwriters of North America (SONA). The two will split $500,000 and provide additional support to their constituents struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic and shifting needs in the music marketplace.

It's fair to say that Ana Cristina Cash's Shine is the first full statement of a new career path for the singer.

Warning: If you enter Jana Kramer and Mike Caussin's Nashville property these days, it's not exactly going to be empty.  With two growing kids running around the house, the couple is trying their best to keep their little ones occupied and entertained. From a ball pit in the living room to a full on tent in the master bedroom, there's something for the kids everywhere you look.

Concord CFO Bob Valentine announced Wednesday (April 15) that Nashville-based Hazel Malit has been promoted to CFO of the company’s recorded music business.

As the writer of such monumental country songs as “Independence Day,” “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am” and “On a Bus to St. Cloud,” Gretchen Peters certainly knows her way around a good tune.As the title of her May 15 album declares, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee is turning to another legendary songwriter for her latest effort.

Welcome to Emerging Country, a Billboard series where we highlight an up-and-coming act who is making a splash in the genre. This month’s pick is country singer-songwriter Parker McCollum, who is introducing himself to country radio with his debut single “Pretty Heart” on MCA Nashville.For the past five years Parker McCollum has spent his weekends on the road.

By Justin Kalifowitz

He was hospitalised last month

These are dark times as the world combats the global coronavirus pandemic, but Thomas Rhett brightened the mood a little bit when he performed his new song, "Be a Light," during the ACM Presents: Our Country special on Sunday (April 5).

By Ellise Shafer

The CMT Music Awards will be pushed from June 3 to Oct. 14 because of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, the network announced Friday.