Explore Country Artists
Tim McGraw
Excited to announce that the new album ‘Standing Room Only’ will be released on August 25! Listen to the title track Standing Room Only, and Hey Whiskey available now.
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Tim McGraw has sold over 90 million records worldwide, achieved 46 worldwide No. 1 singles and 19 No. 1 albums, won numerous awards, including 3 Grammy Awards, and holds the record for being the most played country artist at radio since his debut in 1992.
Waylon Jennings
The essence of outlaw country—hard living, broken hearts, and a life led rambling, among other things—is distilled in Waylon Jennings’ booming baritone. Born in Texas in 1937, Jennings dropped out of school at 16 with the dream of becoming a musician, and got his chance when rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Buddy Holly tapped him to play bass in his band. After giving up his seat for the infamous 1959 plane ride that would end the lives of Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens, Jennings established the honky-tonk roots of what would become his signature sound in the ‘60s with songs like the toe-tapping “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line.” But it wasn’t until the ‘70s that Jennings became the outlaw icon—a scruffy, towering cowboy in a wide-brimmed hat—of legend. Jennings made this version of himself known with 1973’s Honky Tonk Heroes, a record dense with electrifying twang and hardcore country that stood in stark contrast to the genre’s mainstream offerings in Nashville. While Music City might’ve had its issues with Jennings, he was in good company with songwriters, including fellow Texan Willie Nelson, a longtime collaborator he eventually joined in country supergroup Highwaymen—alongside Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson—in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Jennings passed away in the early 2000s, but his influence looms large over country music, particularly in its 2010s outlaw resurgence through artists like Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton.
Darius Rucker
Rucker achieved multi-Platinum status as lead singer & rhythm guitarist of the GRAMMY Award-winning band Hootie & the Blowfish, who have sold more than 25 million albums worldwide. Since releasing his first Country album in 2008, Rucker has earned four No. 1 albums on the Billboard Country chart, including RIAA Platinum-certified Learn to Live & True Believers, plus 10 No. 1 singles at Country radio & 11 Gold, Platinum or multi-Platinum certified hits. Rucker was inducted as a Grand Ole Opry member in 2012 & in 2014 he won his third GRAMMY Award for Best Solo Country Performance with his version of Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel". He topped the charts at Country radio once again with “Beers And Sunshine” in 2021. New songs “My Masterpiece” & “Same Beer Different Problem” are available everywhere now.
As a philanthropist, Rucker co-chaired the capital campaign that generated $150 million to help build the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital & has raised over $3 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through his annual Darius & Friends benefit concert & golf tournament. Rucker has also advocated for over 200 charitable causes supporting public education & junior golf programs in South Carolina through the Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation & serves as a National Chair for the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville.
For more information, visit www.dariusrucker.com & follow on social media @DariusRucker.
Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus is a left-handed guitar player, singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist from Flatwoods, Kentucky.
Raised in a musical background ranging from Southern Gospel four-part harmonies to Southern Rock with full-on smokin’ guitars and honky-tonk piano. Cyrus’s roots run deep in his Appalachian upbringing of Bluegrass, Country, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rhythm and Blues, and all genres of music. This multitude of mastering and bending genres is exemplified by Cyrus’s Grammy, CMA, BET, VMA, Billboard and American Music Awards.
Cyrus’s musical mantra is two fold. 1. “Music changes everything.” 2. When it comes to creating; “Don’t try to make music that fits inside the box, don’t try to make music that fits outside the box… make it like there is no box.”
The multi Grammy award winning artist says, “Music is my motivation. Life is my inspiration. I bought a guitar and started a band for that reason.