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by Lauren Tingle 15m ago George Strait’s 30th studio album Honky Tonk Time Machine arrives March 29. The collection will feature 12 new originals, eight of which are co-written by Strait, plus an updated version of Johnny Paycheck’s “Old Violin.” His grandson, Harvey Strait, appears as a guest vocalist on “God and Country Music,” and...

by CMT.com Staff 43m ago Tonight is the night: the season two finale of CMT’s hit reality series Music City, and boy are there some major loose ends left to tie up. Let’s look back at our most pivotal storylines from the last four weeks and catch up, shall we? Jackson and Baylee via GIPHY...

by Lauren Tingle 29m ago Ruston Kelly has always loved Johnny Cash. But the drugs Cash used to do were the same ones that nearly killed Kelly. Since his overdose, Kelly refuses to let substances control his life and creativity. He quit smoking cigarettes just to get back in championship ice skating shape for the...

by Alison Bonaguro 2m ago Kacey Musgraves has never really been one to sugarcoat things. So if you ask her what’s the hardest part about being a woman in music, she will give you the straight-up, honest-to-God truth. And it’s that there isn’t much equality between male and female artists. When People asked Musgraves about...

by Edward Morris 49m ago Harold Bradley, a founder of the Nashville recording industry and a much-recorded guitar player, died Thursday (Jan. 31) in Nashville at the age of 93. In his more than 70 years as a session musician, Bradley played on a galaxy of hits, among them Alan Jackson’s “Here in the Real...

by Alison Bonaguro 9m ago On her latest Get Real podcast, Nashville insider Caroline Hobby invited Luke Bryan’s wife Caroline to the show to talk about everything. And by everything, I mean everything: how to dress kids for skiing without dying, what she first thought of Luke when they met at Dingus Magee’s, what happens...

by Alison Bonaguro 18m ago It’s been almost a year and a half since Stephen Paddock changed everything. When he fired from his room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, he killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. And now, the experts are starting to...

by Alison Bonaguro 41m ago The actual Super Bowl LIII football game doesn’t start until 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday (Feb. 3). But the live country music will be playing all weekend long in Atlanta. So before you sit down to watch the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams play, make sure you know...

by Lauren Tingle 6h ago Horses have long symbolized unbridled spirit and freedom, and the equine star in Kyle Park’s “Rio” is no exception. The song is currently having a moment as Park’s fourth No. 1 on the Texas Regional Radio Report (TRRR) from his sixth album Don’t Forget Where You Come From. Erin Enderlin,...

by Alison Bonaguro 21m ago Blake Shelton was the first country artist of 2019 to do a pop-up show on Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville, but he certainly won’t be the last. In fact, on Tuesday night (Jan. 29), there will be two such shows just steps away from one another. Both are free, and...