by Craig Shelburne 52m ago Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert are among the first performers confirmed for the ACM Awards, taking place in Las Vegas on April 5. In conjunction with the announcement, the Academy of Country Music and dick clark productions issued a statement about “monitoring the situation” amid concerns about COVID-19, or coronavirus,...
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Another Round: Holly, Hilary and Sam Williams
by Alison Bonaguro 2m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] When you invite a few of Hank Williams Jr.’s kids into the studio to sing a few songs — of their own and of their family’s — things are bound to get interesting. So when Holly, Hilary and Sam Williams walked into the CMT Studios...
Calamity Jane Play That Fiddle Hard in “Devil Went Down to Georgia” Video
by CMT.com Staff 3/11/2020 As country fans, we’ve all heard about the devil who went down to Georgia — but never, ever like this. This vivacious version by Calamity Jane is a modern homage to the original song by Charlie Daniels Band. Lucy Cantley’s remarkable playing is bolstered here by Camille Rae’s impassioned vocal, injecting...
THE LATEST: Find Out Which Shows Are Cancelled
by Alison Bonaguro 30m ago LAST UPDATED AT 8:30 a.m. CT on March 11, 2020. Zac Brown Band’s spring leg of The Owl Tour Cancelled “Out of caution and due to increasing public health concerns, Zac Brown Band is postponing the spring 2020 leg of The Owl Tour. This was an extremely difficult decision, but...
We Have Spring Fever for These 12 Upcoming Albums
by Craig Shelburne 56m ago With a sunny season around the corner, it only seems right to take a look at the upcoming country releases that will brighten our spring months. Here are a dozen that we can’t wait to hear. Kelsea Ballerini, Kelsea (March 20) With her third album imminent, it’s impossible to guess...
Stagecoach Festival Moves to October, Due to COVID-19
by CMT.com Staff 21m ago Stagecoach Music Festival will shift its dates from April to October, due to concerns about COVID-19, or Coronavirus. According to one of the festival’s producers, Goldenvoice, the annual festival in Indio, California, will now take place on October 23, 24, and 25. The official statement is below. As one of...
Four Hours + 22 Artists = $500,000 for Tornado Relief
by Alison Bonaguro 9m ago The tornado that devastated roughly 80 miles in and around Nashville last week was only on the ground for approximately 73 minutes. Thank God the benefit concert to help the victims lasted about four times as long. To Nashville, With Love on Monday night (March 9) at Marathon Music Works...
Jon Pardi Says “Girls Are Out There Raising Hell”
by Alison Bonaguro 10m ago Did Jon Pardi just release a female empowerment anthem? And if so, can we get an amen? The title of Pardi’s brand new song “Ain’t Always the Cowboy” might sound like it’s just another fiddle-heavy cowboy song — not that there’s anything wrong with that — but this one’s actually...
Kane Brown Finds “Homesick” in Familiar Territory
by Edward Morris 43m ago Welcome home, Kane Brown. Happy to have you back in the chart penthouse. All this is a roundabout way of saying that Brown’s “Homesick” has arrived at No. 1 on Billboard’s country airplay chart after a 31-week slog. It’s Brown’s fifth song to reach that peak, following “Good as You,”...
Women’s History Month: These Artists Thrived in the ’50s and ’60s
by Edward Morris 40m ago Although country music was dominated by men when Billboard began ranking country songs in 1944, the landscape changed for female artists in the 1950s and 1960s, as the genre claimed Nashville as a recording center and the Country Music Association was formed to create new and larger audiences. This would...