by CMT.com Staff 1m ago Texas country fans, there’s a new kind of parking lot party coming your way. The Texas Rangers have announced the QuikTrip Concert in Your Car events, slated for four consecutive nights (June 4-7), with five of the state’s most popular artists performing in the parking lot of the new Globe...
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Is Garth Brooks Bringing Cowboy Back for FUN?
by Alison Bonaguro 15m ago Garth Brooks’ fans are eager for new music. You might say they’re impatiently waiting on his highly anticipated album, FUN. So during his last Facebook Live chat Inside Studio G, Brooks decided to give the people what they want. Even though the album isn’t 100 percent finished and/or ready to...
Rita Wilson: “I Didn’t Wait This Long to Become a Songwriter So That I Could Play It Safe”
by Alison Bonaguro 2m ago Rita Wilson’s latest country song started on Instagram. She’d had the title for “Where’s My Country Song?” on her mind when she got an Instagram message from 2010 American Idol champ Lee DeWyze. “Apparently, Lee’s wife Jonna (Walsh) had heard my Halfway to Home and she suggested that he reach...
Thomas Rhett Sets Chart Record With “Beer Can’t Fix”
by CMT.com Staff 1m ago Cheers to Thomas Rhett, who sets a new chart record this week with “Beer Can’t Fix.” The good-natured duet with Jon Pardi has become Rhett’s ninth consecutive No. 1 single on Billboard’s country airplay chart. He’s now just ahead of Luke Combs (with seven) and Old Dominion (with six). Overall,...
Travis Denning on the Moments That Led to Beer’s Better Cold
by Alison Bonaguro 54m ago The man who I might always think of as David Ashley Parker From Powder Springs is actually Travis Denning from Warner Robins, Georgia. And I got to know him a little bit better when Denning called me to talk about his upcoming EP Beer’s Better Cold, due out on Friday...
More Artists Join CMT Celebrates Our Heroes Special
by CMT.com Staff 47m ago CMT has announced additional star-studded talent joining CMT Celebrates Our Heroes: An Artists of the Year Special airing Wednesday, June 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The uplifting celebration and two-hour virtual tribute brings together country music’s biggest names to recognize the most vital and inspirational Americans on the front lines...
Rachel Reinert Brings Her Creative Best Friend to Dance in “Here”
by CMT.com Staff 60m ago These days, we can all relate to the isolation Rachel Reinert expresses in her newest video, “Here.” Fortunately, she’s not actually alone, as she shares screen time with her best friend, Andy, a gifted dancer who interprets the song’s emotional message. Formerly of the band Gloriana, who had a 2011...
Some Good News from Zac Brown & John Krasinski
by Alison Bonaguro 5m ago How sweet is this? Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] When John Krasinski kicked off his Some Good News show on Sunday night (May 10), he had a special surprise — actual a few surprises — for a young couple in Maryland. Just about seven minutes into the show from his...
Country Legends We Love: Rodney Crowell
by Edward Morris 3m ago A prolific recording artist and deserving member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Rodney Crowell’s literate, inward-looking songs have become the gold standard for other country lyricists from the 1970s onward. His voluminous catalog of hits includes modern classics such as Keith Urban’s “Making Memories of Us” and Tim...
Sara Evans: The Copy That Covers Conversation
by Alison Bonaguro 35m ago When you first hear that a country artist is releasing an entire album of covers, you naturally assume it will be all classic country covers. But Sara Evans has cast a much wider net than that. Her Copy That album — due out on Friday (May 15) — goes way,...