Category: <span>News</span>

by Cindy Watts 1m ago Maren Morris was like most aspiring singers when she moved to Nashville. She drove a car to Music City that she probably shouldn’t have trusted to make the trip. She had crackly demos, and her songs weren’t as developed as now. But, she was hopeful. She details her story in...

by Cindy Watts 1h ago Walker Hayes was an alcoholic working at Costco driving a van a friend gave him when he saw songwriter/publisher/producer Shane McAnally in a Smoothie King. He went up and tapped him on the shoulder, and it changed his life. Today Hayes is a sober, happily married father of six with...

by Cindy Watts 40m ago Dierks Bentley went over the river and through the woods on his bike – in the snow – on Thursday as inches of the fluffy white flakes piled up in Nashville. “Perfect biking weather,” Bentley posted on social media along with a video showing his precarious trek. And he’s not...

by Cindy Watts 20m ago Amy Grant’s daughter who inspired her hit “Baby, Baby” just had a baby. The singer’s daughter Millie Long and her husband Ben said their first child, daughter Penelope Willow Long, was born 10:14 a.m. on Monday. The baby was born in Nashville and was 7 lbs., 12 oz., and 20...

by Cindy Watts 7m ago Chris Ruediger had a choice to make – sports or music. Ruediger grew up near Boston, where the Red Socks are king and the New England Patriots are a religion. However, country music won. Ruediger explores the inner struggle of becoming an adult in his song “Kid Anymore.” Written by...

by Cindy Watts 30m ago Tom T. Hall, the songwriter known as “The Storyteller,” died on Aug. 20, 2021. Wednesday The Williamson County, Tennessee Medical Examiner’s report revealed Hall committed suicide. The report, conducted by Samuel Smith M.D., says that Hall “had sustained an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, to the head, on the morning of...

by Cindy Watts 38m ago Just call her karate Carrie. Underwood has made no secret of her love for Netflix’s “Cobra Kai,” a spin-off of the popular 1980s franchise “Karate Kid.” And now she can say she has experienced it first hand. Underwood is a special guest on season four of the show, which recently...

by Cindy Watts 58m ago Brothers Osborne is celebrating their Grammy-nominated album “Skeletons” with a deluxe version of the project that will be available Jan. 21. The new amped-up version of the album includes three new songs, “Headstone,” “Midnight Rider’s Prayer,” and “Younger Me,” and is available for preorder now. The duo’s longtime producer Jay...

by Cindy Watts 36m ago Keith Urban is going on tour and enlisted the help of some unsuspecting fans to write his setlist. Urban posted a video on his socials Tuesday of him calling fans and asking for suggestions. “working on the setlist for tour and decided to call a few friends for suggestions,” he...

by Cindy Watts 47m ago Four days after the passing of pop culture icon Betty White, the country music community has a message – thank you for being a friend. “While watching the news last night I learned of Betty White’s passing,” Dolly Parton wrote. “Betty will live forever not only in this world but...