by Alison Bonaguro 1m ago Even with the chaos of an album release just a month away, Kelsea Ballerini found time in her schedule for her first ever trip to New York Fashion Week. And we are not mad about it. Because Ballerini is just like us. So when she saw Blake Lively in real...
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Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel” Turns Eight-Times Platinum
by CMT.com Staff 18m ago Somebody pick a bouquet of dogwood flowers for Darius Rucker, who was surprised with a plaque celebrating the RIAA’s recent 8x-Platinum certification for “Wagon Wheel” during a visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville yesterday. Since topping the charts for back-to-back weeks in 2013, “Wagon...
Black History Month: How These Musicians Shaped Classic Country
by Edward Morris 28m ago Charley Pride has been such a commanding figure in country music that it’s tempting to see him as the only really significant African American contributor to the genre. And, indeed, he does still stand alone in that category when it comes to recording hits and longevity. Over a period of...
Carly Pearce Dedicates New Album to Busbee
by Alison Bonaguro 36m ago When Carly Pearce was busy making her new self-titled sophomore album, Carly Pearce, her producer/mentor/friend Mike Busbee died suddenly. So while the album’s liner notes are full of praise for her Heavenly Father, her family, her team, her band, her songwriters, her fans and her new husband Michael Ray (“the...
Sugarland Offer Something More Than Summer Tour
by Craig Shelburne 8m ago Sugarland’s summer tour just got sweeter, with a rotating cast of female singer-songwriters opening their shows and a live EP dropping later this month. The duo will issue the Bigger, Louder, Live EP on February 28 with concert recordings of “On a Roll,” “Bigger,” and “Babe,” all originally found on...
Two Country Classics Among Billboard‘s Greatest Love Song Duets
by Craig Shelburne 39m ago What would you consider the all-time greatest love song duets? Billboard critics set out to get them with a fine-tooth comb (to borrow a lyric from one of the songs), coming up with 25 tracks across all genres. For “Islands in the Stream,” they noted its chart-topping dominance on the...
What We Know About Tim McGraw’s Split with Sony
by Alison Bonaguro 42m ago Tim McGraw and Sony have called it quits. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s not unheard of for country artists and Nashville record labels to go their separate ways. But for McGraw — one of the most prolific country music makers of our time — the scenario is...
Brooks & Dunn: 10 Songs Sung Straight to the Heart
by Edward Morris 2m ago Sure, Brooks & Dunn have created a tapestry of honky-tonkin’, boot-scootin’, good-timin’ songs, but woven throughout that tapestry is a thread of sensitive songs in which the guys express their deepest feeling directly to the ladies who’ve captured their affection. You’ll notice that a great number of these lyrics were...
Granger Smith Finds a New Way to Traverse Dirt Roads
by Alison Bonaguro 46m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] This new Granger Smith song is special. Because it’s so good, and it’s so him. But also because it’s the first new one he’s shared since his youngest son, River Kelly Smith, died at the age of three in a drowning at the Smith’s home...
Baby No. Three Arrives for Thomas Rhett and His Family
by Alison Bonaguro 44m ago She’s here, she’s healthy, she’s adorable, and she is loved. “Lennon Love Akins was born at 8:30 AM on February 10th,” Rhett posted very early on Wednesday morning (Feb. 12). “It was such a joy to watch this little angel be brought into the world. My wife is just incredible...