by Alison Bonaguro 30m ago You’d never know that Blake Shelton hated making music videos by the looks of all Blake Shelton’s music videos. And yet, when his girlfriend Gwen Stefani was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday (Dec. 4), that’s what she claimed. “We got to do a video together,” Stefani told DeGeneres...
Author: Kix Hot Country (Kix Hot Country)
CMT Rings in the Season with Special Holiday Programming
by CMT.com Staff 39m ago It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and CMT is celebrating the season with some equally wonderful holiday movies…and a few of your tried and true favorites, of course. From now until Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, celebrate Merry Mondays with A Country Christmas, 1985’s Santa Claus: The Movie starring...
Kane Brown Racks Up Another Top Single as Luke Combs Maintains No. 1 Album
by Edward Morris 54m ago Joyous Noel, y’all. Billboard’s country albums chart abounds this week with Christmas fare — most of it returning collections but with one new batch from Brenda Lee. Before we get to that, though, let’s raise a hot-buttered rum to Kane Brown, whose “Lose It” now ranks as the nation’s most-played...
Writers of Jake Owen’s “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” Fêted in Nashville
by Edward Morris 14m ago A ceiling-high Christmas tree, its pinpoint yellow lights winking a welcome, greeted the guests scurrying into Nashville’s CMA building late Monday afternoon (Dec. 3) to honor the writers of Jake Owen’s latest No. 1 single, “I Was Jack (You Were Diane).” As the crowd gathered, two bartenders dispensed copious amounts...
Report: Pilot Error Caused Troy Gentry’s Death
by Alison Bonaguro 35m ago Just minutes after pilot James Evan Robinson took off in the Schweitzer 269 Charlie 1 helicopter with Troy Gentry on board, he told the staff on the ground that he couldn’t control the engine. His plan was to cut the engine and try to glide in in an attempted emergency...
Do It For The Love Honors Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
by Alison Bonaguro 38m ago At the recent 3rd annual Do It For The Love Rocker’s Ball in San Francisco, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were honored with the Founder’s Award. Because of their generosity, time and talent, DIFTL helped grant live music wishes to bring hope and healing to those suffering from illness and...
Meet CMT Artist Discovery’s Sammy Arriaga, Hannah Bethel, Emily Ann Roberts and Nick Wayne
by Lauren Tingle 26m ago The next round of CMT’s artist discovery videos addresses various themes on the universal feeling of love. Sammy Arriaga “WTH” Embedded from media.mtvnservices.com. Arriaga takes on the theme of naming everything one shouldn’t do and doing it anyway. Directed by Dylan Rucker, the video follows the development of a relationship...
Kacey Musgraves Dishes on Her Scene-Stealing CMA Fashion
by Samantha Stephens 46m ago It’s no surprise whatsoever that Grammy and CMA winner Kacey Musgraves topped nearly every best-dressed list imaginable from the 52nd Annual CMA Awards. Equally as stunning as her win for Album of the Year was her red carpet look that sent everyone’s jaws straight to the floor. In a sea...
An Aaron (and Kim and Jake and Jack and Jolee) Watson Christmas
by Alison Bonaguro 3m ago You can get Aaron Watson talking about pretty much anything. The Texas country singer is kind of an open book. He’ll go on and on about his music, his shows, his background and the pawn shop guitar he paid for mowing lawns. (More on that Abilene pawn shop guitar later.)...
An Aaron (and Kim and Jake and Jack and Jolee Kate) Watson Christmas
by Alison Bonaguro 1h ago You can get Aaron Watson talking about pretty much anything. The Texas country singer is kind of an open book. He’ll go on and on about his music, his shows, his background and the pawn shop guitar he paid for mowing lawns. (More on that Abilene pawn shop guitar later.)...