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Allison Veltz wears heartbreak like an overcoat. Her pain is fresh and sharp, like blades of grass after a deep morning frost. Songs on The White Room EP were recorded in the middle of love’s fatal spiral.

Granger Smith has been chosen as Taste of Country’s No. 1 Hot Artist to Watch in 2016. His debut single, “Backroad Song,” is quickly climbing the charts.

Annie Bosko's debut EP, Fighter, is aptly named. The six-song project offers a cross-section of her life and music, but underlying it all is the undying grit and determination that brought her to Nashvile to chase her musical dreams in the first place.

Newcomers of all shapes, sizes, genders and backgrounds hacked through a nasty jungle of naysayers and doubters to blaze a path for anyone with talent, a relentless work ethic and thick skin to follow. Underdogs dominated in 2015.

There’s no better story than an underdog story, and every spring and fall The Voice tells a good one.

Cam and her debut album Untamed offer bittersweet discord. On the surface, she's sugar and spice and everything nice. The opening title-track is a feel-good jam, but almost immediately one learns a project five years in the making is not packed entirely with sunshine.

Growing up, Lena Stone could have walked to a recording studio famous for albums by Aerosmith, Lady Gaga, James Taylor and more. Yet her dreams remained 1,100 miles away.

The Bellamy Brothers are celebrating 40 years in the music business this year, and at an age when many acts are retiring, they show no signs of slowing down.

Five years after her coming out, Chely Wright is moving forward both in her music and in her work with LGBT advocacy.

Victims of bullying can respond in many ways. Some get angry, while others look to get even. Some teenagers turn inward and live a life filled with trust issues. Livy Jeanne turned outward, helping over 75,000 others find peace and perspective.