Author: Kix Hot Country (Kix Hot Country)

by CMT.com Staff 2m ago Editor’s Note: CMT Hot 20 Countdown takes a look back on 10 years of incredible music with Decade, a weekly segment that features a modern country classic that made its greatest impact between 2010 and 2019. This week, Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley talk about their 2017...

by Alison Bonaguro 23m ago Early on Friday morning (Nov. 29), Midland announced good news and bad news on Twitter. The good is that the country band’s frontman Mark Wystrach and his wife Ty Haney had welcomed their daughter Sundance “Sunny” Leon Haney-Wystrach, but the bad is that the baby girl’s health concerns would force...

by CMT.com Staff 8m ago Craig Morgan accepts his calling to perform “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost,” even when the pain feels too much to bear. Speaking to CMT Hot 20 Countdown host Cody Alan, Morgan says, “This is where God placed me and now I have an obligation because I don’t...

by Alison Bonaguro 47m ago Walker Hayes has new music coming out on Dec. 6, so he’s just starting to tease his fans, friends and followers with bits and pieces of each track. So on Monday (Nov. 26), when he tweeted a mere 10 seconds of a song called “Acceptance Speech,” my head was spinning...

by Matthew Scott Donnelly 51m ago This Thanksgiving, in the event your potatoes burn or your cranberry sauce isn’t totally up to snuff, just be glad that you — unlike Loni Love — don’t have to chew on pieces of dried alligator for cash. Embedded from media.mtvnservices.com. In a sneak peek of the season finale of...

by Craig Shelburne 1h ago About halfway through Carrie Underwood’s 2012 album, Blown Away, there’s a sweet song that seems to perfectly fit the Thanksgiving holiday: “Thank God for Hometowns.” In a video clip surrounding the release of Blown Away, the singer explained that she’d heard a demo of the song (written by Ashley Gorley,...

by Craig Shelburne 1h ago Allison Moorer is truly a writer, as evidenced by her new album and memoir, both titled Blood. Although she’s flown under the radar of the mainstream country world for two decades, Moorer has established an impressive musical legacy in Nashville. She’s written songs for Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert, received...

by Alison Bonaguro 30m ago This ain’t Justin Bieber’s first rodeo. His brand new, massive hit song with Dan + Shay, “10,000 Hours,” is already in the Top 10 on the Billboard Country Airplay charts, and it looks like it’s settling in for a very long stay. It’s also getting comfortable in the No. 1...

by Edward Morris 16m ago Lady Antebellum’s Ocean, the trio’s first studio album in two years, debuts at No. 2 this week on Billboard’s top country albums chart — denied the No. 1 spot by Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get, which maintains its peak dominance for the second week. Also, Combs’...

by Craig Shelburne 60m ago Charley Crockett, the rootsy Texas singer-songwriter who’s toured the world this year, is a big fan of Buck Owens. “Being out on the road, man, one day Buck’s catalog just clicked with me and I became obsessed with his whole deal,” he says. For his newest album, The Valley, Crockett...