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Anita White, the Seattle blues singer who performs under the name Lady A, has released a new song about her legal battle with a Nashville country-music trio over use of the name. “My Name Is All I Got” is a rhythmic, stomp-and-clap blues song that finds White detailing the hardships she’s faced in 2020.

“Yes, they tried to take my name/but my name is all I got,” she sings in a defiant call-and-response chorus, before growling about how “they keep trying to make me insane.” It’s an emotional performance,...

Seattle blues singer Anita “Lady A” White filed a countersuit against country trio Lady A Tuesday evening, the latest in an escalating legal dispute that began over the summer after the group, formally known as Lady Antebellum, changed their name and subsequently sued White over the rights to the name.

In her suit, filed in the U.S. District Court’s Western District of Washington against band members Charles Kelley, David Haywood and Hillary Scott alongside Lady A Entertainment, LLC, White claims that she has “nationwide common law rights in...

The Chicks — the band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks — weighed a few names before it agreed to drop the Southern reference “Dixie” from the band name, including some names like “Men” and “Puss ‘n Boots.”

If you’re wondering how in the world the band got from Dixie Chicks to “Men,” the band explained to Stephen Colbert on Thursday that the name is an acronym for their initials, Martie [Erwin], Emily [Strayer] and Natalie [Maines]. And names like “Puss ‘n Boots” or “Wooly Puddin'” would’ve been a throwback to some old “alter egos” the band once used, but another band already shared that name. You wouldn’t want another Lady A situation.

The band also addressed why it felt now was the time to change the band name.

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If you’ve seen one at-home quarantine performance, you’ve nearly seen them all. But Margo Price is determined to liven up the format with her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Nashville-based singer, who released her third album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, last week, filmed a stylish video for her performance of “Letting Me Down.”

Shot around Price’s torch-lit backyard pool, the clip assembles her full band, all socially distanced around the patio. It’s a single-take video with Price starting the song from a glider...

In a televised live appearance on “The Grand Ole Opry” Saturday night, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Margo Price offered an unexpected bit of advocacy between songs, name-checking the group formerly known as Lady Antebellum before suggesting that the show should book Anita White, whom she called “the real Lady A.”

Price made the suggestion immediately after performing a cover of “Skip a Rope,” a No. 1 country hit from the 1960s that dealt with racism and other social ills.

Before going into the final number of her set, the title track from her new album “That’s How Rumors Get Started,” Price said, “I would just like to commend the Opry for coming out and saying ‘black lives matter.’ I think it’s so important at this time. And I hope that we can continue to go one step further in so many of these Nashville institutions and support the voices of our...

When country trio Lady Antebellum announced a name change in mid-June amid national conversations about racism, it was meant to be a gesture of goodwill. The band had been criticized for romanticizing the pre-war, slavery-ridden American South — so it chopped off the offending word and refashioned itself “Lady A.”

But Lady A was already someone else’s name: A 61-year-old black singer in Seattle, Anita White, had recorded and performed music with it for decades. In the days after White spoke with Rolling Stone about her shock, the band contacted...

Lady A, the country band formerly known as Lady Antebellum is suing blues singer Anita White over the use of name “Lady A.” The band filed the lawsuit asking the court to enforce the trademark that they own on the name on July 8. White has been using this name for almost 20 years while […]

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Anita White is not going to let her 20 year music career as Lady A be "erased" by the band formerly known as Lady Antebellum. This week, the country music trio stated they are suing the blues singer after they claim she and her team "demanded a $10 million payment" stemming from a name discrepancy. At the time, White did not address the lawsuit, but in a new interview with Vulture, the musician says she waited to speak out in the hopes the group would acknowledge how their name change could be potentially detrimental to her career. "I was quiet for two weeks because I was trying to believe that it was going to be okay and that they would realize that it would be easier to just...

Anita White has spent decades singing the blues as Lady A. Weeks after Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A to acknowledge the former name’s racial connotation, she worries she’s being erased.

The black Seattle blues singer has been in talks with the band for weeks about using the name, maintaining that she doesn’t want to share the Lady A brand and that she shouldn’t have to fight to keep a name she’s used for more for 20 years. With a newly filed lawsuit from the band,...

The band Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, said they are suing singer Anita White over a disagreement that stemmed from their name change. In a statement to E! News, Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and David Haywood said in part, "Today we are sad to share that our sincere hope to join together with Anita White in unity and common purpose has ended. She and her team have demanded a $10 million payment, so reluctantly we have come to the conclusion that we need to ask a court to affirm our right to continue to use the name Lady A, a trademark we have held for many years." The group requests no money from White nor do they wish to prevent her from using the name Lady...

Lady A, the Grammy-winning country trio known as Lady Antebellum until a few weeks ago, has sued Seattle blues artist Lady A, whose real name is Anita White, over a dispute for the rights to the name. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, seeks to prove that the band is infringing on copyright claims using the name and that both artists can perform with the title.

“Today we are sad to share that our sincere hope to join together with Anita...