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by Lauren Tingle 1m ago Of course, headliners Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean and Kid Rock are three main reasons to be at this year’s Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam. But the 2019 event has gotten a civic twist. When the lineup was revealed Tuesday (April 2), producers announced that $10 from every ticket sold will support...

by Alison Bonaguro 47m ago With Tuesday’s (April 2) announcement that Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Old Dominion and Keith Urban will be performing at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night, it makes you wonder if they are just refusing to leave anyone out. Because those stars are joining an already very packed...

by Lauren Tingle 41m ago Monday’s (April 1) Loretta Lynn: All-Star Birthday Celebration Concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena showed that the Kentuckian is an incomparable living legend and a genuine original who will never be repeated. The 86-year-old CMT Artist of a Lifetime is among the last of the living architects whose timeless music has...

by Lauren Tingle 11m 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 Monday (April 1): Willie Nelson & Family and Luke Combs are among the artists...

by Samantha Stephens 24m ago Never has the social and political climate of our society been more in need of a song like Ingrid Andress’ “Lady Like” than this very moment. So how ironic or perfect, really, that this song, with its raw, powerful and unapologetic message, came to life over the topic of politics...

by Lauren Tingle 43m ago Reba McEntire and Kelsea Ballerini joined Kelly Clarkson’s #AMinuteAndAGlassOfWine series on the last weekend of her Meaning of Life tour. The Facebook Live performances were part of every show on the Meaning of Life tour supporting Clarkson’s 2017 album of the same title in an effort to share the production...

by Alison Bonaguro 2m ago Things got a little weird last weekend. Could it have just been the ’shrooms Blake Shelton was hunting? The morel mushrooms that had been eluding him finally appeared within reach, but he was a little worse for wear because of the hunt. There was also a literal handful of puppies...

by Lauren Tingle 18m ago It’s hard to believe that Lonestar’s “Amazed” has a 20th anniversary this summer. Co-written by Marv Green, Chris Lindsey and Aimee Mayo, the song claimed the pinnacle of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart for eight consecutive weeks in summer of 1999 and has become a standard at nearly every school dance...

by Alison Bonaguro 3m ago When your first baby is born, you’re kind of a rookie at everything. But when your second baby is born, you become a seasoned pro of motherhood. And such is the case with Carrie Underwood, who just started sharing the ups and downs of parenting two young boys — Isaiah,...

by Edward Morris 36m ago Both in the songs he writes and the ones he chooses to record, Thomas Rhett has been chipping away at country music stereotypes without actually shattering them. He still sings of drinking too much and loving too hard — just as Hank Williams did — but he brings to his...