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by Lauren Tingle 2m ago The 2019 CMT Music Awards is officially going to be fire personified with the newest round of all-star performers and collaborations confirmed for the show. The latest performers joining the night include the 2017 video of the year winner Keith Urban, hosts Little Big Town, two-time nominee Luke Combs and...

by Edward Morris 5/29/2019 Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] Close observers of country music were of two minds when “Redneck Woman,” Gretchen Wilson’s first single, went No. 1 on May 29, 2004, where it would remain for five weeks. It was great news that the song looked like it would sell a bazillion records. But...

by Samantha Stephens 24m ago Give us a minute, and we’ll give you five things you need to know in country music. It’s your new fix for all the latest headlines in one place. Here’s what you need to know for Tuesday (May 28): Happy Birthday, Hank Jr. Hank Williams Jr. is headed into his...

by Samantha Stephens 17m ago No puns here, Lauren Alaina fans, only completely exciting and huge news: the Georgia native is hitting the road this fall on her first-ever headlining trek, her That Girl Was Me Tour. Say it with us: it’s about time, right? The ACM-winner shared the news in true Alaina fashion earlier...

by Lauren Tingle 5/28/2019 A perennial theme that runs rampant in country music is its longstanding respect for the U.S. military serving at home and overseas. There have been several examples throughout the last decade of country stars being a Force Behind the Forces by performing for those who serve through the USO. Army veteran...

by Edward Morris 58m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] Maybe it was the mention of “buffalo briefs” in Tim McGraw’s “Indian Outlaw” that elevated him from Hank-to-hunk and endowed him with the dramatic stature to pull off “Don’t Take the Girl,” his first No. 1 single. Thursday (March 23) marks the 25th anniversary of...

by Samantha Stephens 1h ago We’re days away from the 2019 CMT Music Awards, which means chances are, your favorite artists have already begun prepping for one of the biggest parts of the night: the red carpet. It’s delightful chaos: a fun frenzy of artists talking to media, each other and of course, the fans,...

by Edward Morris 1h ago If any one songwriter was crucial in forwarding Don Williams’ recording career, it was the limitless Bob McDill. Of the 56 songs Williams charted between his first in 1973 and his last in 1992, McDill wrote or co-wrote 14, among them the classic “Good Ole Boys,” “Lord Have Mercy on...

by Lauren Tingle 51m ago This is the kind of love and adoration Eric Church inspires. It was close to 1 a.m. Sunday morning (May 26) when a couple of diehard fans exiting Nashville’s Nissan Stadium as Church was finishing his four-hour-long Double Down concert were overheard arguing about what song he was going to...

by Edward Morris 55m ago As a recording artist, Jessi Colter was both spotlighted and at times overshadowed by her husband, Waylon Jennings. He co-produced her 1970 album, A Country Star is Born, with Chet Atkins; negotiated her inclusion on the multiplatinum anthology, Wanted! The Outlaws, in 1976; and sang with her on five of...