by Lauren Tingle 20m ago All the artists at Sunday’s (April 7) ACM Awards red carpet were quick to name their favorite female artists they’d like to see win the organization’s top honor of entertainer of the year. Backstage, Reba McEntire, who won the award in 1994, said that the 2020 show will be a...
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Five at Five: Big & Rich Kickoff Predators Tradition + Gretchen Wilson and Jessie G. Cover Heart
by Lauren Tingle 15m ago Give us a minute, and we’ll give you five things to know in country music. It’s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here’s what you need to know for Thursday (April 11): It’s NHL playoff time in Nashville, and that means the return...
How Matt Stell Keeps the Faith
by Alison Bonaguro 43m ago When I meet a new artist for the first time, one of the questions I always ask is, “What’s a song you wish you’d written?” It helps me gauge the artist’s roots, and tells me whether or not we will be the same page. So in walks Matt Stell. And...
Who Rescued Who? A Gallery for National Pet Day
by Alison Bonaguro 22m ago You can tell how much a person truly loves animals but scrolling through their Instagram pages and Twitter feeds. So for #NationalPetDay, we’ve collected some of the best, animal-loving country artists’ posts about their favorite pets and/or the kittens, goats, turtles and horses they’ve met along the way. Happy 4th...
Q&A: Little Big Town Has Hope for “The Daughters”
by Alison Bonaguro 21m ago Embedded from embed.vevo.com. After sharing their new song “The Daughters” with the world on Sunday night (April 7) at the ACM Awards, Little Big Town took some time to reflect on the meaning of the song, and tell CMT.com what their hope is for the empowering ballad. The band’s Karen...
Five at Five: Artists Weigh in On “Old Town Road” + Tanya Tucker and Dennis Quaid Aren’t Dating
by Lauren Tingle 8m ago Give us a minute, and we’ll give you five things you might want to know in country music. It’s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here’s what you need to know for Wednesday (April 10): AJ McLean Talks Going Country with CMT Radio...
Singer and Songwriter Earl Thomas Conley Dead at 77
by Edward Morris 14m ago Singer and songwriter Earl Thomas Conley, one of country music’s top hitmakers during the early and mid-1980s, died Wednesday (April 10) at the age of 77. Among his 18 No. 1 singles were “Holding Her (And Loving You),” “Fire and Smoke” and “I Can’t Win for Losin’ You.” Embedded from...
George Strait’s Honky Tonk Time Machine Debuts as Top Country Album
by Edward Morris 1m ago Ring the bells and fire the cannon. The Billboard country charts are finally churning this week with lots of new music.The eternal George Strait rockets in at No. 1 on Billboard’s albums chart with Honky Tonk Time Machine. That package also surfaces at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 all-genres...
Why Kelsea Ballerini Is 9,264,829,272 Percent Excited
by Alison Bonaguro 15m ago You have to really be a fan of your fans to multi-task like this. On Wednesday, while Kelsea Ballerini was packing for her tour, she managed to pack in about 27 questions from her followers on Twitter. And as usual, Ballerini was an open book. Packing for tour…wanna do a...
Carrie Underwood Called LANCO and They’re Still Not Over It
by Alison Bonaguro 49m ago On March 25, Carrie Underwood called the five guys in LANCO to share the good news that they’d been voted the Academy of Country Music’s new group of the year. That was more than two weeks ago, and they are still not over that career-defining moment. “In the moment, we...