Keyboard sideman Peter Levin, cherished at the top tiers of southern jam and roots music, was getting back into a post-pandemic touring routine this year when a lifelong heart condition reared up and sent him into emergency heart transplant surgery. He's got a new livestream concert and album.

Nashville veteran Allen Thompson has re-made his large, longstanding namesake band into LadyCouch with co-founder, co-writer and relatively new roots singer Keshia Bailey. Their debut The Future Looks Fine emerged in September, and they launch a December residency at Dee's Country Lounge next week.

Nashville-based breakout solo artist Allison Russell finds herself in a good place going into the 2022 Grammy Awards with three nominations, including Americana Album of the Year. Outside Child was released in late May on Fantasy Records and received immediate acclaim for its insightful and healing reflections on horrible abuse she suffered in her youth. Its song “Nightflyer” has been tagged for two possible Grammys, as American Roots Song and American Roots Performance.

The country music community convened Sunday to recognize the Hall's class of 2020 after the pandemic canceled last year's ceremony.

Through her rich, emotive voice, Kiely Connell shares observations from around her hometown and a bit of her own story on Calumet Queen.

Congress is setting up a complicated process that could avoid a potential federal default.

Tate was a longtime staff writer at The Village Voice, where he documented Black art and culture. He eventually became a leading figure in cultural criticism.

President Biden provided hundreds of thousands of borrowers with debt relief this year — but his campaign promise to cancel at least $10,000 of student debt per person remains unfulfilled.