Category: <span>News</span>

Keith Urban Sends Prayers for “Indescribable Hatred”

by Alison Bonaguro 29m ago Over the weekend, as the details of the tragic New Zealand mosque mass shootings started pouring in, so did the thoughts and prayers from country stars. Keith Urban — who was born in New Zealand — and his wife Nicole Kidman, who was raised in nearby Australia have an especially...

03.18.201903.18.2019

Fifteen Essential Charley Pride Love Songs

by Edward Morris 9h ago On this, his 81st birthday (March 18), Charley Pride can look back on a long trail of triumphs. Chief among these are his Country Music Assn. awards as male vocalist of the year (1971 and 1972) and entertainer of the year (1971), three performance Grammys (1971 and 1972), membership in...

03.18.201903.18.2019

Trisha Yearwood Tackles Her Biggest Musical Fear

by Samantha Stephens 32m ago It only took country star Trisha Yearwood twenty-something years to put together her dream project: a tribute to the one-and-only Frank Sinatra. One single listen to Yearwood’s purely sublime album Let’s Be Frank, a finely-curated collection of Sinatra’s catalog, leaves listeners in complete awe of Yearwood’s range and versatility as...

03.15.201903.15.2019

WATCH: How Chris Young Was Literally “Raised on Country”

by Alison Bonaguro 3m ago About six miles south of the honky-tonks on Lower Broadway in Nashville, there’s another kind of dive bar kind of off the beaten path. They’re open until 3 a.m. on the weekends, and I’m guessing they play a whole lot of old country music. They even have their own murder...

03.15.201903.15.2019

Your Definition of Music Doesn’t Define Maren Morris

by Alison Bonaguro 19m ago Maren Morris has a lot to say. A lot. So when you sit down with her to talk music, expect the conversation to go off on some tangents: marriage therapy, gun control, family planning, and the ongoing debate over radio’s unbalanced playlist. That’s why the latest interview with Morris with...

03.15.201903.15.2019

Behind the Scenes at Blake Shelton’s Ole Red Gatlinburg Opening

by Lauren Tingle 54m ago The only thing that would have made the already over-the-top Ole Red Gatlinburg launch entirely out of this world is if the nearby Santa Family Reunion crashed the party. They were already dressed in red for the occasion. Around the corner from the grand opening of Blake Shelton’s new restaurant...

03.14.201903.14.2019

This Is Why Garth Brooks Is a Stadium Champ

by Alison Bonaguro 11m ago I’m not big on sports and/or sports references, but this? This I understand. Before Garth Brooks took the stage in St. Louis at the Dome at America’s Center on March 9 — the first night of his stadium tour — he sat down with CMT’s Hot 20 to talk about...

03.14.201903.14.2019