by Alison Bonaguro 40m ago You never really know what you’re going to get when you ask someone for their all-time favorite country song. Will it be a brand new one they just heard on country radio ten times in one day? Will it be the very first one they ever heard? Will it be...
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First Look: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team Returns For Monumental Season 15
by Jordana Ossad 6m ago “Yes ma’am!” Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team is, in fact, returning to CMT! High kicks and jump splits are coming… The network’s most popular and longest-running series will arrive for a monumental Season 15 on Tuesday, November 24. And there will be some firsts, as seen in the first...
Jennifer Nettles to Be Honored with CMT Equal Play Award
by Alison Bonaguro 1h ago On Wednesday night (Oct. 21) at the 2020 CMT Music Awards, Jennifer Nettles will be honored with the very first CMT Equal Play Award. The award will recognize Nettles’ ongoing advocacy for women and for all diverse voices in the music industry, as she works to have more female voices...
At 25, David Lee Murphy’s “Dust on the Bottle” Gets Sweeter With Time
by Craig Shelburne 40m ago Can it be true that we’ve all been singing “Dust on the Bottle” for 25 years? Don’t let it fool you — David Lee Murphy’s classic hit reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart in October 1995, becoming a defining hit for the singer-songwriter, as well as for devoted...
Jason Aldean Gets Another No. 1 With “Got What I Got”
by Craig Shelburne 16m ago Jason Aldean is back on top, as “Got What I Got” rises to No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Country Airplay chart. It’s the superstar’s 22nd single to reach the pinnacle on Billboard’s country chart. “Country radio has always given us the chance to bend the rules a little, and...
Carrie Underwood Is Everyone’s Dream Doppelgänger
by Alison Bonaguro 42m ago Who wouldn’t want to be mistaken for Carrie Underwood? That would be quite a gracious compliment. And Kelly Clarkson revealed that it happened to her, once, in her Awesome at Being Awkward game on her talk show recently. Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] “I do not look like this person,”...
Johnny Cash’s “Farther Along” Gets a Boost from a Guitar Legend
by Craig Shelburne 16m ago The music of Johnny Cash has been a lifelong inspiration for guitar hero Duane Eddy, in no small part due to the riveting guitar work of Luther Perkins, who played in Cash’s band from 1954 until his death in 1968. Perkins is credited with inventing Cash’s “boom-chicka-boom” rhythmic trademark. Now,...
Garth Brooks Is Finally Ready to Share the Fun
by Alison Bonaguro 46m ago Time did not fly while we’ve been waiting for this much Fun. That is the title of Garth Brooks’ upcoming 12th studio album, due out on Nov. 20. But we have been here for it for more than two years. Because way back in June of 2018, Brooks released the...
CMT Next Up Now: Watch Lakeview’s “In Case You Forgot (My Hometown)”
by CMT.com Staff 2m ago If you still see your ex everywhere you go, the guys in Lakeview can easily relate. The new video for “In Case You Forgot (My Hometown)” follows a despondent young man who spots his former flame in all their favorite places, including the bar he introduced her to — and...
Country Artists Show Off Their Liner Notes
by Alison Bonaguro 54m ago Behind every great county singer there is a great country song. But, behind that great song there is also a group of about about a hundred people who come together that make that song sing. You know the ones. They’re all listed on the inside of the liner notes, if...