by Edward Morris 9h ago On this, his 81st birthday (March 18), Charley Pride can look back on a long trail of triumphs. Chief among these are his Country Music Assn. awards as male vocalist of the year (1971 and 1972) and entertainer of the year (1971), three performance Grammys (1971 and 1972), membership in...
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Five at Five: Eric Church Extends 2019 Tour + Darius Rucker and Ed Sheeran Collaborate
by Lauren Tingle 5m 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 headlines in one place. Here’s what you need to know for Friday (March 15): Church’s Double Down Tour has added 13 concerts in eight cities kicking...
Trisha Yearwood Tackles Her Biggest Musical Fear
by Samantha Stephens 32m ago It only took country star Trisha Yearwood twenty-something years to put together her dream project: a tribute to the one-and-only Frank Sinatra. One single listen to Yearwood’s purely sublime album Let’s Be Frank, a finely-curated collection of Sinatra’s catalog, leaves listeners in complete awe of Yearwood’s range and versatility as...
WATCH: How Chris Young Was Literally “Raised on Country”
by Alison Bonaguro 3m ago About six miles south of the honky-tonks on Lower Broadway in Nashville, there’s another kind of dive bar kind of off the beaten path. They’re open until 3 a.m. on the weekends, and I’m guessing they play a whole lot of old country music. They even have their own murder...
Your Definition of Music Doesn’t Define Maren Morris
by Alison Bonaguro 19m ago Maren Morris has a lot to say. A lot. So when you sit down with her to talk music, expect the conversation to go off on some tangents: marriage therapy, gun control, family planning, and the ongoing debate over radio’s unbalanced playlist. That’s why the latest interview with Morris with...
Five at Five: Blake Shelton Gets Ugly + Carrie Underwood Is Still a Blockhead
by CMT.com Staff 9m 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 headlines in one place. Here’s what you need to know for Thursday (March 14): Carrie Underwood Throws Back to Her First Love Carrie Underwood has never...
Behind the Scenes at Blake Shelton’s Ole Red Gatlinburg Opening
by Lauren Tingle 54m ago The only thing that would have made the already over-the-top Ole Red Gatlinburg launch entirely out of this world is if the nearby Santa Family Reunion crashed the party. They were already dressed in red for the occasion. Around the corner from the grand opening of Blake Shelton’s new restaurant...
This Is Why Garth Brooks Is a Stadium Champ
by Alison Bonaguro 11m ago I’m not big on sports and/or sports references, but this? This I understand. Before Garth Brooks took the stage in St. Louis at the Dome at America’s Center on March 9 — the first night of his stadium tour — he sat down with CMT’s Hot 20 to talk about...
Maren Morris: Proud to Be the “Squeaky Wheel” for Women in Country
by Samantha Stephens 21m ago What is that famous Alicia Keys lyric: “this girl is on fire?” Well, last night (Mar. 13,) Keys’ CMT Crossroads partner Maren Morris was a girl on fire at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The Grammy winner’s GIRL: The World Tour made a pitstop in her home city of Nashville for a...
Charlie Daniels Talks Beau Weevils’ Southern Roots
by Lauren Tingle 3/14/2019 As the Charlie Daniels Band hits the road for another year of touring, Daniels continues to explore his vast musical influences with his Beau Weevils band featuring James Stroud, Billy Crain and Charlie Hayward. The group’s debut album, Beau Weevils — Songs in the Key of E, arrived last fall and...