by Alison Bonaguro 42m ago On Sunday night (Dec. 15), living rooms across America were filled with the sights and sounds of the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors, when country stars Carrie Underwood, Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris and Thomas Rhett all took the stage to celebrate this year’s special honorees. First up was Linda Ronstadt....
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CMT Hot 20 Decade: “Boys Round Here,” Blake Shelton
by CMT.com Staff 58m ago CMT Hot 20 Countdown takes a look back on 10 years of incredible music with Decade, a weekly segment that features a modern country classic that made its greatest impact between 2010 and 2019. This week, Blake Shelton talks about his 2013 single, “Boys Round Here.” CMT Hot 20 Countdown...
Top Moments From CMT Crossroads: Gavin DeGraw & Chris Young
by CMT.com Staff 1h ago Gavin DeGraw and Chris Young share a genuine friendship that shines through in a new episode of CMT Crossroads. Filmed in Nashville in front of a standing room-only crowd, the one-hour special features the artists collaborating on each other’s biggest hits, along with Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Enjoy the...
Picture This: Luke Combs Just Another Fan in the Crowd
by Alison Bonaguro 53m ago Here’s all the proof you need that neon dreams do come true. Just four short years ago, Luke Combs was living in Nashville trying to get his country career off the ground. (Remember when he told me, “The first eight months I was there, nobody would touch me with a...
Eli Young Band Has the Ultimate Friday Flashback
by Alison Bonaguro 48m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] The guys who make up the Eli Young Band — Mike Eli, James Young, Jon Jones and Chris Thompson — have faces that will always look eternally youthful to me. But their new song proves that they have indeed gotten a little older and a...
Sam Hunt Gives Career Advice to His Younger Self
by CMT.com Staff 25m ago Holidays are a natural time to look back and reflect, and earlier this month at the Stars and Strings RADIO.com event in Brooklyn, New York, Sam Hunt did just that. During this video interview (around the 3:00 minute mark), host Kelly Ford describes the meteoric rise of Hunt’s early career,...
Brandi Carlile Gets Back to Her Busking Roots
by Alison Bonaguro 46m ago Last week, when Brandi Carlile was in Seattle to accept the 2019 Founder’s Award at the Museum of Pop Culture, she did so on the inside of the very building she used to busk outside of. “My voice is in shambles. I still wanted to speak, though,” Carlile told the...
Thomas Rhett Plays Colbert, Plans Summer Tour
by Craig Shelburne 39m ago Thomas Rhett gave “Notice” to late night viewers on Wednesday (Dec. 11), then woke up with a new tour announcement for 2020. The Grammy-nominated artist returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to sing “Notice,” from his newest album Center Point Road. In addition, he has revealed the dates...
When Luke Combs’ Fans Needed Him, He Was There for Them
by Alison Bonaguro 40m ago On Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 11), Luke Combs did what any artist with a growing fanbase should do. He loved his fans right back. He opened up Twitter for a Q&A with his fans, answering questions about everything from beer and dogs and sports to teachers and Post Malone and his...
The Ins and Outs of Writing a Song with Eric Church
by Alison Bonaguro 47m ago The art of songwriting has never ceased to amaze me. As a lover of words, I’ve always wondered how someone could take ordinary words and string them together in an extraordinary way. And then put a melody behind that poetry that takes it to the next level. It’s a gift....