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by Melissa Goldberg 34m ago Country superstar Garth Brooks has announced he will cancel the remaining of his 2021 stadium tour due to the surge of COVID-19 cases nationwide. “In July, I sincerely thought the pandemic was falling behind us,” Brooks said in an official statement. “Now, watching this new wave, I realize we are...

by Marcus K. Dowling 54m ago “Hard To Forget” vocalist Sam Hunt was in a venue other than his familiar environments of a stage or studio when he appeared — via video conferencing — at downtown Nashville’s Historic Courthouse on August 18 to plead guilty to misdemeanor DUI charges following a 2019 DUI arrest in...

by Marcus K. Dowling 16m ago Of late, country music superstars’ tour stops in the Old Dominion state have found them being joined onstage by Darci Claire, a seven-year-old country music superfan. Dylan Scott says she’s “a star,” and she’s received some significant cosigns of her love of the artists and the genre. Recently, she...

by Marcus K. Dowling 26m ago Stunning shows of humility should be par for the course in our expectations for country legend Dolly Parton’s behavior. However, the superstar recently revealed to a British broadcaster that she got “a lot more credit than I deserve” for her donation of $1 million in funding for Vanderbilt University’s...

by Marcus K. Dowling 1h ago Embedded from embed.vevo.com. Jackson Dean’s been described previously as a performer who does not rest his singer-songwriter credibility on cliches or bloated bravado, resulting in a kind of music that’s “rough on the outside, seeking when you listen and grounded in real instruments played with a sense of purpose.”...

by Marcus K. Dowling 10m ago Brantley Gilbert’s 2021 released single “The Worst Country Song Of All Time” could take the cake as one of country music’s most tongue-in-cheek song titles in recent memory. But there’s something to the name’s playfulness as more songs than ever are emerging into the pop consciousness from Music City,...

by Marcus K. Dowling 58m ago The latest CMT Crossroads will premiere — with 3XGrammy-award-winning rapper Nelly as the headliner — on Wednesday, September 1st at 10p/9c exclusively on CMT. In celebration of the August 27 release of his eagerly anticipated Heartland EP, the multi-platinum selling superstar will highlight over a decade of successful explorations...

by Marcus K. Dowling 2m ago It’s a Cyrus family affair when Bobby and Teddi Cyrus are joined by Bobby’s “Achy Breaky” cousin Billy Ray for the married tandem’s latest, joyously spiritual folk-country single, “Roll That Rock.” The new song “embodies the joy, happiness, excitement, and peace of salvation,” says Bobby Cyrus. He continues that...

by Marcus K. Dowling 37m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. Today, with Reba McEntire presiding over the announcement, the Country Music Hall of Fame shared their newest inductees; drummer Eddie Bayers, singer-pianist-composer Ray Charles, steel guitarist Pete Drake, and mother-daughter duo the Judds as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Between 1984...

by Marcus K. Dowling 46m ago On August 13, 2021, iconic “folkabilly” singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith passed away at 68. For four decades, she — alongside artists including John Prine — represented the generational continuation of folk-style singer-songwriter excellence emerging from Austin, Texas’ capital city. Griffith was frequently a performer on the PBS music program Austin...