The moment the jaunty guitar kicks in on John Smyths’ new single, "Now I'm Wiser", you feel a familiar, comfortable warmth. It’s the sound of a good chair in a bar where the floor is sticky with spilled truths. And then the story starts, a classic yarn of a hard-living past yielding to a peaceful present. Smyths, a Dutch ex-metalhead singing country out of...

Nashville's Rising Star Jagger Whitaker Strikes a Chord with Authenticity and Musical Mastery "If I Know You" From the Nashville, Tennessee backyard to the country music forefront, a bright star named Jagger Whitaker shines, inevitably selling the craft of making music to his father, who taught him. Whitaker has long time been a fan of country rock music and his musical career brought him to this...