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Post Malone performed a rough-edged rendition of Hank Williams’ “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It” to an intimate crowd at a Nashville honky-tonk late Saturday night. Malone, who has been teasing his country fandom since 2015, popped up at Nashville’s legendary Robert’s Western World to take the stage with Brandon Birkedahl and the band. In a video by the site Whiskey Riff, Malone was also captured performing George Jones’ “I’m a One Woman Man.”

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Just before 2 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 8, David Kessler was in his room at a hotel near Graceland when he heard a knock on his door. It was his friend Lisa Marie Presley. “Let’s go out,” she said. It was time to visit her father and one of her children.

Kessler, a friend and grief specialist based in Los Angeles, had met Presley in summer 2020, shortly after the death of her son, Ben. That tragedy felt like the latest in a series of upheavals in her life,...

The new single off Kentucky country vocalist Dillon Carmichael’s just released debut album, a rip-roaring Zz Top cover by Whitey Morgan and Leyla McCalla’s brassy protest song are among the must-hear country and Americana tracks this week.

Fairground Saints, “Somewhere Down the Line”

Set to a kick-drummed pulse, “Somewhere Down the Line” marries the coed Californian harmonies of Fleetwood Mac with the polished punch of modern country-pop. “I’ve got a full tank of gas and some money,” goes the chorus, stacked high with layered vocals, banjo and pedal steel.