by Alison Bonaguro 13m ago This is it, y’all. This is the last official working Monday of 2018. Which means this is the last Last Weekend’s Greatest Hits round-up of the year. After we share what went on with the country artists last weekend, we’ll see you on the other side. (Unless Carrie Underwood has...
Author: Kix Hot Country (Kix Hot Country)
Hit Songwriter Jerry Chesnut Dead at 87
by Edward Morris 11h ago Jerry Chesnut, the writer of such hits as Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Another Place, Another Time,” Faron Young’s “It’s Four in the Morning” and George Jones’ “A Good Year for the Roses,” died Saturday (Dec. 15) at the age of 87. Born in the Eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Loyall on...
Blake Shelton Funds Cancer Research in Aspen’s Honor
by Alison Bonaguro 19m ago When Aspen Van Horn was five months old, she’d been diagnosed with a neuroblastoma tumor. She went on to have two blood transfusions, three rounds of chemo and surgery to remove most of the tumor, according to officials at the Children’s Hospital Foundation. Because of all that treatment, Aspen will...
Eric Paslay Becomes a Father
by Lauren Tingle 17m ago Congratulations go to Grammy-nominated artist, Eric Paslay, and his wife Natalie, on the birth of their first child, a daughter they named Piper Lily. The first-time parents welcomed Piper to the world Dec. 8 in Nashville. The couple broke the news Tuesday (Dec. 13) after spending a few days of...
Toby Keith on the Deadline That Almost Stopped His Career
by Lauren Tingle 39m ago Toby Keith didn’t get to where he is today by caving to any shred of self-doubt. He still has the same hunger to be the best in his craft that he had when he first started. “I tell people pursuing anything in music, ‘Dream big, and go for it,’” Keith...
Luke Combs: The Year-End Q&A
by Alison Bonaguro 29m ago If anyone owned 2018, it was Luke Combs. He headed into this year with a second No. 1 song, and he’s ending it with a Grammy nomination. And in between? He released three more bona fide country hits, won a CMA Award, wrote a love song for his girlfriend, proposed...
FGL+NYE+NOLA
by Alison Bonaguro 7m ago Brian Kelley has no regrets. When we were on the phone to talk about Florida Georgia Line’s new music, new tour, and their new year, Kelley told me that he cannot remember a New Year’s Eve that he wants to forget. “They’ve really all been good,” Kelley said. But this...
Brandi Carlile and Elisabeth Moss Team for Emotional “Party of One”
by Lauren Tingle 60m ago Generations of the LGBTQ community are enjoying the basic civil right to marriage that others before them never had. The thought of being told you’re unworthy of unconditional love is beyond inconceivable in today’s age, but when you finally have the right to it, it won’t be perfect all the...
Adam Wakefield’s Soul-Baring Gods & Ghosts
by Lauren Tingle 4m ago Adam Wakefield’s Gods & Ghosts is the official sound of the Nashville underground. A multi-instrumentalist, the Plymouth, N.H. native has an originality that exemplifies the greats, including Leon Russell and Levon Helm. When Wakefield held his album release party in November at Nashville’s revered Station Inn, despite a power outage...
Janelle Arthur Co-Stars With Deana Carter and Neal McCoy in Runnin’ From My Roots
by Lauren Tingle 8m ago Many artists who move to Nashville for music forget who they are along the way on their rise to prominence. Janelle Arthur captures this sentiment perfectly in her original “Runnin’ From My Roots,” which is the title song of the new film she stars in with Deana Carter and Neal...