It sounds like one of those corn-pone one-liners straight out of Hee Haw.

How do you break up a happily married couple?

Make them a duo in a country band.

Of course, back in Hee Haw's heyday in the early 1980s, Keifer and Shawna Thompson were too young...

Was it worth the wait for Wilco? The answer is on the way, guaranteed to arrive a lot sooner than the band's next scheduled visit to Denver.

One of America's finest and hardest-working alternative rock/country acts is back on the road this month, resuming their tour in support of...

Remember that "If They Mated" segment on Conan O'Brien's talk show?

Well, imagine what mild-mannered Nashville singer-songwriters Trent Dabbs and Amy Stroup are capable of producing when they get together, though not in that way. After all, Dabbs already has a lovely wife, Kristen, and two young...

If life is a carnival, Sherrie Austin's career in Nashville is a three-ring circus.

Daring, unpredictable and scary, her time under the big top has had its shares of thrills and spills. But with the deft touch of a skillful acrobat who long ago overcame her fear of heights,...

While the red carpet presentations at the 34th Starz Denver Film Festival feature Oscar-worthy films with box-office potential, there are enough under-the-radar temptations to please the most critical cinephile.

With help from festival director Britta Erickson, who handicapped the Academy Award best actor race in Part 1...

George Clooney may be able to do a lot of things, but he isn't a song-and-dance man. That's unless you count his hokey hoedown and country croon as a member of the Soggy Bottom Boys in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

After beginning a mostly unremarkable TV career that included...

Inside the lithe figure and nimble fingers of a classically trained pianist, there's a rock 'n' roll guitar goddess wailing to get out.

Now, Kathryn Calder is getting her chance. Have guitar, will travel. Sure, the underrated player of Immacuate Machine and the New Pornographers will bring...

With seemingly little in common besides their indie performance aura and West Coast vibe, The Head And The Heart and Priscilla Ahn both know how to wow a crowd.

While the methods to their madness are as different as Seattle rain and L.A. sunshine, and the songs...

A country girl born and raised in the Heartland of America who grew up singing country songs is now the mother of three daughters. But the matriarch in perpetual motion otherwise known as Martina McBride is anything but a stay-at-home mom.

McBride is everywhere this month en route to...

It would be so easy to rebrand his latest side project as Trampled by Winter or Dead Man Turtles. Apparently, Dave Simonett, the primary songwriter, singer, guitarist and frontman of Trampled by Turtles, had something completely different in mind with Dead Man Winter.

Simonett built the Duluth,...

She's got Elizabeth Taylor eyes, an I Love Lucy madcap spirit and a voice that'll melt hearts and minds. What's not to like about Zooey Deschanel?

The "She" in the pop-folk duo She & Him is now the New Girl in town, at least in TV...

The striking image of Karen Fairchild fills the screen in vintage black and white.

From that initial scene in Little Big Town's cinematic "Shut Up Train," you immediately sense that this isn't your typical country music video.

Of course, Little Big Town isn't your ordinary country band,...

Having turned 50 in May, George Clooney thinks and talks a lot about growing old these days. It was one of the topics of conversation during a series of interviews at the 38th Telluride Film Festival, where the Academy Award winner was awarded the Silver Medallion.

He was one...

For three thoughtful souls with the power and resiliency to sing awfully sad songs, Missy Higgins, Joy Williams and John Paul White look pretty damn happy. And pretty damn pretty to boot.

Their show of emotion gave the folks on the final day of the 21st Rocky...

For one hot summer day in the simmering South, The Band Perry became a traveling band of gypsy musicians. A 1:30 a.m. wake-up call was required, but such is life these days for the attractive, multi-talented trio.

One of Nashville's newest sensations, the band of two brothers, Reid...

Tim McGraw brought his Emotional Traffic Tour to suburban Denver, Colorado on August 5, and everything was hunky-dory.

Of course, there's reason to emphasize hunk. This was The Manly Show on steroids, with McGraw and primary supporting stud Luke Bryan going the extra country mile to strut their...

While Little Big Town play what Karen Fairchild calls "a pissed-off bridal party" in their hit video for "Little White Church," it doesn't really represent the present mood of one of today's best country quartets.

The shoot for the first single off 2010's "The Reason Why" was "a...

Shannon McNally could be like one of those characters in Treme, the critically acclaimed HBO series about New Orleans musicians surviving in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Actually, Shannon McNally should be one of those characters. She already knows the part by heart.

In a 2005...

Thunder and lightning hit Red Rocks amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, on July 9. Only this time, the electrical impulses of the Avett Brothers followed the human boombox known as Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.

The buzz that built in advance of this sold-out show was still...

Grace Potter knows all about hot summer nights, especially after spending a few days last week in Las Vegas, where the temperature always hovered around the triple-digit mark. 

So while she's figuratively basking in the hot summer sun, Potter's actually sitting in bed, nursing a cup of coffee in...