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by Marcus K. Dowling 39m ago The signs that young country fans use to gain the attention of their favorite Music City acts to be invited onstage are often quite inventive. However, one young hopeful that recently curried favor with Dan + Shay in Kansas City truly takes the cake for presenting country stars with...

by Cindy Watts 42m ago Just call them the wedding singers. Or, at least the engagement singers. Dan + Shay helped one of their fans propose this week. In a video posted on social media, Dan Smyers said the duo got a message this week from a fan named Erin who wanted to propose at...

by Cindy Watts 6m ago Granger Smith’s three-month-old son Maverick is already talking! Smith’s wife Amber posted a video on her social media Thursday of her telling the infant she loved him and him saying it back. She captioned the post: “Baby says I love you.” Then she added: “He said it. Don’t @ me...

by Cindy Watts 15m ago Patsy Cline’s “dream house” is up for sale. Because of her untimely death in 1963, Cline only lived in the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home for less than one year. “It was the house she aspired to, and then laid in state there,” said country music historian and Country Insider editor Brian...

by Marcus K. Dowling 39m ago Nine months after its release as a single and “Chasing After You” — Ryan Hurd’s collaboration with wife Maren Morris — has hit the top of Mediabase’s radio airplay chart. The achievement also follows exactly one month after the release of Hurd’s hotly-anticipated album Pelago, on which the single...

by Marcus K. Dowling 44m ago Walker Hayes, Kane Brown, Jason Aldean with Carrie Underwood, and Mickey Guyton are among the country performers on the 49th American Music Awards, which will air 7 p.m. Nov. 21 on ABC. Embedded from www.youtube.com. Each of the country stars featured on the show, televised from the Microsoft Theater...

by Marcus K. Dowling 59m ago Regarding his latest video clip for “When Love Comes Around,” Texan Wade Bowen tells CMT, “This video shows that no matter what point you are in your life – from child to the grave – live life to its fullest. As well, no matter what phase you’re in throughout...

by Cindy Watts 20m ago Kelsea Ballerini is happy and healthy now, but the country singer admits that hasn’t always been the case. In her new book of poetry, “Feel Your Way Through,” which is out now, Ballerini said she suffered from an eating disorder in high school. “My parents had just gotten divorced, and...

by Marcus K. Dowling 45m ago One quick look at the tracklist for Gabby Barrett’s forthcoming deluxe edition of her June 2020-released album Goldmine includes not just an acoustic version of her 18-month old chart-topping single “The Good Ones,” but also includes Barrett’s take on Dolly Parton’s legendary 1974 hit single “I Will Always Love...

by Cindy Watts 51m ago Brad Rempel of country group High Valley thinks of each album as a bullseye. The center is the band’s distinct sound that Rempel loves most to create. “I feel the most natural, and that High Valley is what it should be when I’m writing a very old school bluegrassy melody,”...