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by Lauren Tingle 60m ago This is why Kelleigh Bannen is such a boss. Owning one of country music’s smokiest voices, the Nashville native has never compromised the integrity of her sound or her point of view as a storyteller. Throughout her career, she has developed a professional reputation for delivering music with an edge...

by Alison Bonaguro 6/25/2019 Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.

by Edward Morris 12m ago Now, where were we? Oh yes, keeping abreast of Billboard’s top country albums and airplay charts. Sorry for the recent interruption. Anyway, this week’s action resounds with a couple of familiar names. Luke Combs’ This One’s for You continues to inhabit the peak of the albums list, where it’s resided...

by Lauren Tingle 1h ago The rhythm of New York City has nothing on the beat of Clare Dunn’s heart when she’s onstage becoming one with her fans. She gives them everything she has every time she performs live, and her Tina Turner performance style is on full display in her latest video for “My...

by Lauren Tingle 60m ago Hannah Bethel exudes some solid country wisdom made famous by Dolly Parton in her latest release “Rhinestone Rodeo.” Both believe life is sweeter when you have an attitude of gratitude, and each has a knack for turning adversity into works of art. Life is sweeter when you have an attitude...

by Lauren Tingle 51m ago CMT staffers and families were among the 6,000 people who participated in Nashville’s Pride Parade Saturday (June 22). According to the Tennessean, the event attracted approximately 10,000 spectators to watch marchers make their way down Lower Broadway starting 8th Avenue in what went down as the city’s largest Pride Parade...

by Alison Bonaguro 9m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.

by Edward Morris 50m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] June Carter — who was born 90 years ago Sunday (June 23) — seemed destined to live out her artistic life as a team player. Born into the fabled Carter Family triumvirate that included her mother, Maybelle, June gained her highest visibility recording and writing...

by Edward Morris 53m ago In poems and songs, “images” are those clusters of words that appeal so vividly to our senses that we tend to remember them long after we’ve forgotten the rest of the words surrounding them. Think of T.S. Eliot’s “when the evening is spread out against the sky/like a patient etherized...

by Alison Bonaguro 19m ago When Cassadee Pope made her way down the hallways of Chicago Methodist Senior Services, one man called out from his hospital room, “Hey, The Voice!” Winning on the reality show back in 2012 seem to create all kinds of loyal fans of all ages. Pope was there at the healthcare...