by Samantha Stephens 19m ago The days of cutting your teeth in the honky-tonks of Nashville’s Lower Broadway aren’t gone. They’re just slightly less familiar to current country audiences than the ones of yesteryear. The stories of young country stars paying their dues, playing seven nights a week for tips, hoping to be discovered have...
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Cody Johnson’s Ain’t Nothin’ to It Bows as His First No. 1 Album
by Edward Morris 17m ago Bring the rose petals over here, please, and we’ll hurl them by the handful at Cody Johnson who’s just scored his first No. 1 Billboard album with Ain’t Nothin’ to It. And let’s pop the champagne — expensive champagne, mind you — for Jason Aldean as he basks in the...
Russell Dickerson on His Tour Bus Dreams
by Alison Bonaguro 47m ago It sounds like Russell Dickerson had some pretty simple neon dreams. “I feel like God’s given me this dream of being on stage and writing a song, even of getting a tour bus,” Dickerson told Fox News. “All of these dreams he put into my mind and into my heart...
What We Missed at Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa
by Samantha Stephens 6m ago Just when we find ourselves wanting to curse social media, we find ourselves singing its praises. Seriously, where else could we basically get a full recap of Luke Bryan’s massive Crash My Playa festival that took place over the weekend? Since we weren’t able to go, this is the next...
Ashley McBryde, Jake Owen, Randy Owen and More Brake for St. Jude
by Lauren Tingle 56m ago Before Ashley McBryde established roots in Middle Tennessee for music, the Arkansas native once made Memphis her home where her standing gig on Wednesday nights was performing for families of patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at the local Target House. Even then, before McBryde was the Grammy-nominated artist...
Music City Recap: Season 2, Episodes 7 and 8
by CMT.com Staff 1h ago We can’t, y’all. The drama is hitting a boiling point on Music City, and just when we thought the waters were still and calm again, along comes a tsunami of some major truth that has left us completely on edge, right before the big finale. Honestly, where can we start?...
Last Weekend’s Greatest Hits
by Alison Bonaguro 38m ago Well, if you are eagerly anticipating country music babies, then Brittany Aldean won the internet over the weekend. She posted a pair of stunning black and white profile portraits of her and her Navy Rome baby bump. And while Brittany and Jason Aldean are just days away from delivering, another...
Little Big Town, Margo Price and John Prine Celebrate at Nashville’s Grammy Nominee Party
by Edward Morris 50m ago It was just your standard truck stop eats. You know — lobster pasta, sweet and sour chicken sliders, goat cheese potato croquettes — simple fare like that. Obviously, I’m kidding. The food served at the annual Grammy nominees parties in Nashville is as reliably high-toned and fancy as any of...
Music Row Celebrates Jimmie Allen’s “Best Shot”
by Edward Morris 10m ago Imagine a fraternity party jammed into a single minivan and you get some idea of how crowded it was Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 22) for the Jimmie Allen celebration at Nashville’s The Local saloon. CMT’s Hot 20 Countdown will recap all the action on an all-new episode airing Saturday and Sunday...
Carly Pearce: First Comes Love
by Alison Bonaguro 51m ago The last time I caught up with Carly Pearce, she wouldn’t share very much about her upcoming wedding. And I get that. She wants her personal life to stay personal, and I’m guessing her fiancé Michael Ray feels the same way. But you know what’s even better that getting Pearce...