Author: Kix Hot Country (Kix Hot Country)

by Alison Bonaguro 27m ago Anytime you’re invited to an American Values luncheon with the Boy Scouts of America, good things are bound to happen. Which was exactly the case for Alabama frontman Randy Owen. On March 20, at the event in Anniston, Alabama, the local Choccolocco district handed Owen their Heart of an Eagle...

by Alison Bonaguro 54m ago If you want to get to bottom of why Eric Church shows are the phenomenon that they are, you have to go. But you also have to stay. Because much like Church himself, these shows don’t just quit halfway in. And since Church was all in, his fans were all...

by Edward Morris 1m ago I make no claim to prescience, but I knew I’d glimpsed something magnetic in Brett Eldredge when I saw his first music video, “Raymond.” That was nearly nine years ago, and this is what I said back then in my CMT.com chart column about the video’s underlying song: “The sentimentalists...

by Lauren Tingle 12m ago Give us a minute, and we’ll give you five things to know in country music. It’s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here’s what you need to know for Friday (March 22): Mike Fisher Granted American Citizenship It’s official. Carrie Underwood’s husband, Mike...

by Lauren Tingle 17m ago It’s the thing married couples always say is the first thing to go after saying, “I do.” So, Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman and Wanya Morris, who have been married to their respective wives for nearly 20 years, had one major piece of advice to newly married Brett Young and...

by CMT.com Staff 57m ago What a year it’s been for Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd. A great year professionally, but especially personally. The couple is celebrating one year of wedded bliss Sunday, Mar. 24, and in honor of their very special anniversary, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite “Murd” moments throughout the year....

by Lauren Tingle 18m ago Give us a minute, and we’ll give you five things to know in country music. It’s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here’s what you need to know for Thursday (March 21): Have you met Bojangles? He’s the new horse that Carrie Underwood...

by Alison Bonaguro 1m ago Is this a thing now? Are songs about using your haters as your motivation, with kind of a how-do-you-like-me-now swagger, making a comeback in country music? I sure hope so. Because that’s what I hear when I listen to LANCO’s new song “Rival,” the title track off their upcoming sophomore...

by Edward Morris 14m ago “It’s easy to write love songs about you,” Scotty McCreery told his wife, Gabi, who stood near the stage in Nashville’s ASCAP building Wednesday afternoon (March 20) applauding her husband and the co-writers of his second No. 1 single, “This Is It.” The song, which McCreery wrote with Aaron Eshuis...

by CMT.com Staff 30m ago One of Jason Aldean’s first red carpets with Brittany Aldean was at the CMT Music Awards, and they’ve been among the hottest country couples to grace red-carpet events since. Today (March 21), the couple celebrates their fourth wedding anniversary. The Aldeans exchanged vows in Mexico in 2015 after two years...