Let It Ride Let It Roll is the latest single from country singer Craig Wayne Boyd, who is the Season 7 winner of NBC's The Voice (2014). With a catchy chorus lyric that says, “Pay no mind to the swerves and curves and all I can’t control,” the banjo-driven track serves as an anthem for navigating the ups and downs of life with a positive outlook – something Craig Wayne Boyd learned first-hand.   “There were a lot of things in life that I was trying to just let go of, and I realized I needed to move on and focus on the positive things. This song was my therapy. It was my way of saying ‘it ..read more

There is a saying in Nashville that “it all begins with a song.” That concept is the premise for a new TV show that focuses on songwriters — rather than singers and performers. More than a thousand contestants applied to win the $100,000 cash prize along with a publishing deal with Sony Music. A red carpet event and the final competition for Chart Breakers took place in front of a live audience at The Listening Room Cafe in Nashville on November 29, 2023. The complete series will take viewers behind the scenes of the songwriting process as contestants compete for the grand prize. The idea fo ..read more

Nashville’s newest nightclub will officially open its doors Wednesday, October 18 (2023) — just a few blocks over from the world-famous honky-tonks on Lower Broadway. The Southern Turf Club is located on the 4th floor of the historic Southern Turf Building, which is also home to Skull’s Rainbow Room and the Sinatra Bar & Lounge at 222 Fourth Avenue North (in Printer's Alley). Guests will feel like they are taking a step back in time to the actual saloon that occupied that space in the late 1800’s — minus the gambling parlor and bordello. The original Southern Turf was perhaps the most op ..read more

Kimberly Perry Releases "Bloom" EP, Featuring "If I Die Young Pt. 2" When Kimberly Perry sang at the Chevy Vibes Stage at CMA Fest last month (June 2023), it was the first time since she was a teenager that she took the stage without her brothers, Neil and Reid. As The Band Perry, the sibling trio had eight Top 10 singles, including the #1 ballad, If I Die Young, in 2010. Now, more than a decade later, Kimberly is embracing a new season as a solo country artist and mom-to-be (with a baby boy due in August). “I think there’s a lot of perspective that’s grown as my life experience has grown ov ..read more

On the eve of the release of their debut EP (June 30, 2023), country music duo BoomTown Saints played a 15-song set to a full house at the legendary venue 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville. Just five years prior, no one could have predicted that a friendship that started at a local gym would lead Chris Ramos and Ben Chism down this path. Chris told 615 Notes, “And now here we are. It’s crazy how we’re here. We didn’t expect it, but we’re not taking it for granted.” Chris — who had been playing piano and guitar since childhood — was working in the pharmaceutical field at the time. “I was in the ..read more

When a local restaurant booked a country singer with several #1 hits for their inaugural listening room series, they set the bar pretty high for the performers that follow. “Sunshine and Whiskey” singer Frankie Ballard was the main act at Lyncoya Café’s first listening room event on April 30. The waterfront restaurant in Hendersonville (18 miles north of downtown Nashville) will showcase singer-songwriters on the last Sunday of the month through the end of August. Creating an experience with music and a meal is a concept that has been on the back burner since the restaurant first opened in S ..read more

There is a new bar in the heart of Nashville — but you won’t hear any country music coming from the stage. Instead, the venue will showcase music from the era of swing, big band, jazz, and easy listening as a way to transport guests to another place and time. The Southern Turf building, which once housed a saloon in the 1800s and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is now the home of the Sinatra Bar & Lounge. Icon Entertainment Group (which owns a handful of Music City’s most famous properties, including the Johnny Cash Museum and Nudie’s Honky Tonk) purchased the hist ..read more

Country music artist and former Marine, Adam Warner, came up with a melody that he couldn’t get out of his head. “I had been humming that melody for a few weeks and just couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do with it.” So, when he got together to co-write with some friends — and their other song ideas weren’t panning out — he started humming his new tune for them. Josh Gallagher and Mark Chandler jumped right in, and together they came up with the perfect lyrics for Adam’s catchy melody for his new single, Cowboy Crazy. “Blue jean baby/With your cut off Daisies/And them scuffed Luccheses” Th ..read more

A 20-year-old Nashville native who recently completed his sophomore year at Belmont University has been cast in a new musical produced by Brian Kelley of country superstar duo Florida Georgia Line. May We All: A New Country Musical has its world premiere at Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) June 7-July 17. Musical Theater major Josh Jordan will play the role of PJ, a resident of the town of Harmony – which is a real town in Tennessee! Josh says it feels “very surreal and rewarding” to be cast in his first professional show – but he almost missed the opportunity. “I had just auditioned ..read more

Offers : Tasting Room, Cocktail Classes, Bottle Service, Private Events, Shipping Available Must be 21+ to enter Just two blocks off lower Broadway in the Fifth Avenue Historic District away from the wildness of Honky Tonk Highway is The Standard Proof Whiskey Co. A small but mighty local gem making waves in the whiskey world, racking up several gold and platinum medals at the San Francisco Spirits Competition along its journey. This bottling and tasting room is housed in an old 1800’s brick building that used to be home to a corset making company. As soon as you step in the front door you ar ..read more