Jason Isbell Is Donating His Cut of Morgan Wallen's 'Cover Me Up' to the NAACP

Chris Willman Music WriterIn what could be a sign of a break in country radio’s unified front, the currently forbidden superstar Morgan Wallen is back on the airwaves on at least one station that had put him on hold, WMYL-FM in Knoxville.

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Chris Willman Music WriterCountry stars Luke Combs and Maren Morris took on the elephant in the room in a joint interview for the annual Country Radio Seminar conference Wednesday, address perceptions of racism and a lack of diversity in the genre that have gone from behind-the-scenes Nashville discussions to the talk of the nation in the wake of the Morgan Wallen N-word scandal two weeks ago.Although Morris has been the most outspoken of the two on these issues prior to their Q&A, it may be

Morgan Wallen on his latest album,. Amid Wallen's racial slur controversy, the LP has topped the Billboard 200 charts for four weeks straight.

Jason Isbell is donating his songwriting royalties to a good cause.

Jason Isbell will donate proceeds from Morgan Wallen‘s cover of his song ‘Cover Me Up’ to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).The news follows Wallen receiving a huge sales boost after a video of him using the N-word surfaced online. The country music star has since been dropped by his record label and has seen his music pulled from radio stations and playlists across the US.In 2019, Wallen covered Isbell’s 2013 hit ‘Cover Me Up’.

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Chris Willman Music WriterJason Isbell, whose song “Cover Me Up” has been a staple of Morgan Wallen’s set for some time and was included on the smash “Dangerous: The Double Album,” says he has decided to donate his royalties from the Wallen album to charity — specifically, to the NAACP.Isbell quote-tweeted a link to an Associated Press story that shared the widely spread news that Wallen’s album is still doing gangbusters in the streaming and sales realms, despite having his music being removed

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMorgan Wallen has been dropped by his booking agency WME, a rep for the company confirmed to Variety, after video footage surfaced of him using a racial slur.The country star has had his contract with label Big Loud “suspended” and found himself a pariah from the airwaves after video circulated on Tuesday of him using a racial slur outside his home after an apparently rowdy night out with friends in Nashville.Wallen, whose new “Dangerous: The Double Album” release

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