Meg McRee

Ella Langley scores her first #1 album in the US with ‘Dandelion.’

Stoked to be a writer on “Somethin Simple”💙

the art of stained glass.

I think we, as a society, should get back to the activity of sitting down and listening to a record in the living room Lights dimmed and candle on, drink of choice in hand, and one of your favorite albums playing is a great way to spend the night Something else phones ruined

Ben Chapman releases new song “Everything’s Different.”

The Artist FKA Sturgill Simpson Is Releasing a New Album. You Can’t Stream It 'Mutiny After Midnight,' by Johnny Blue Skies and the Dark Clouds, will be released only on vinyl, CD, and cassette. More: rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

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Is Nashville boring?

In the darkest hour of my life, when everything felt stripped of color and consequence, the Grateful Dead found me. I didn’t go looking for them. I wasn’t searching for enlightenment or salvation. I was just trying to get through the days without feeling the weight of everything pressing down on my chest. Life had narrowed into something small and joyless, a routine of endurance rather than living. And then, almost by accident, I heard them, not as background music, but as an invitation. The Grateful Dead didn’t offer easy answers or tidy resolutions. What they offered was permission. Permission to feel everything at once, grief and gratitude, longing and laughter, confusion and wonder. Their music wandered the way I felt inside, unpolished, exploratory, unafraid of getting lost. In those long, meandering jams, I realized that being lost wasn’t a failure. Sometimes it was the point. There was something deeply human in the way they played. Notes bent and frayed, songs dissolved and reassembled themselves, mistakes became moments of grace. It reminded me that life didn’t need to be perfect to be meaningful. It just needed to be honest. When Jerry sang about broken dreams and strange highways, it felt less like a performance and more like someone sitting beside me, saying, I’ve been here too. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the world began to open back up. Their songs taught me to listen again, to sunsets, to strangers, to the quiet hope hiding inside even the hardest days. Beauty, I learned, isn’t always loud or triumphant. Sometimes it’s subtle, fleeting, and fragile, like a melody that only exists once and is never played the same way again. The Grateful Dead showed me that life is less about control and more about surrendering to the flow. You don’t dominate the current. You ride it. You trust that even when the path bends unexpectedly, it’s still taking you somewhere worth going. That realization didn’t fix everything, but it gave me something better, perspective. In my darkest hour, they didn’t pull me out of the darkness. They taught me how to see in it. They showed me that joy can coexist with pain, that meaning can be found in the mess, and that there is profound beauty in simply being here, still listening, still moving forward. Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right. Thank you for everything, Bob.

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WE DON'T DO ORANGE

Every time I see my little baby smile it’s like seeing a shooting star I swear. I react the same way. So much joy and amazement. It’s hard but it’s the best thing I’ll ever do

The Texas Quote of the Day comes from Townes van Zandt. It's pretty heavy. He was interviewed in 1992, when Garth Brooks was just becoming big. Townes was asked if he thought the newfound popularity of Garth's music might benefit him, somehow, as a songwriter. Townes responded: “No, I don’t think, as a matter of fact, that I’m going to benefit from anything on this earth. It’s more like that. I mean, if you have love on the earth, that seems to be number one. There’s food, water, air, and love, right? And love is just basically heartbreak. Humans can’t live in the present like animals do; they just live in the present. But humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So, it’s a veil of tears, man. And I don’t know anything that’s going to benefit me except more love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.” ---- Townes van Zandt, in an interview with Peter Blackstock in the alternative-country bimonthly magazine "No Depression." I read Townes' words and it's apparent to me that some people live life on a deeper level than I do, closer to the core, to the true essence. Meanwhile I'm out here wondering what shirt I should wear.

Is the only answer for artists be to just make it & keep it all offline? My gut is saying that this is gonna be the direction and it’s gonna be 🍭

“Satin Sheets” is out NOW! Y’all go check it out, and we hope y’all enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it⚡️@hayescarll

“Satin Sheets” featuring my friend @hayescarll out November 7th. Can’t wait for y’all to hear our take on this classic Willis Alan Ramsey tune⚡️

sorry for the typo. I can drink wine again

but thank you to anyone who has been listening to the music I’ve been making. tiktok and social media in general might be allergic to me but if you’re anything like me you engage best with music doing things&being places, not thru being marketed to. I appreciate it so much

it is genuinely incredible to me that over 100,000 people hear my music every month in some way way shape or fashion. I get down on myself for not being where I want to be, for having a lot of life happen this year that put some things on hold, comparing myself, etc.