Fresh off her historic ride into the Grand Ole Opry, Tanya Tucker wrapped up a whirlwind weekend with a stellar Sunday night performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on June 4. The 64-year-old talent was in high spirits as she celebrated the release of her twenty-sixth studio album, Sweet Western Sound, during the last of two consecutive headlining
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Take a trip down memory lane and reminisce on how it all started in an original documentary film “CMA Fest: 50 Years of Fan Fair!” Get a backstage pass to never-before-seen footage, past CMA Fest performances and exclusive new one-on-one interviews with some of Country Music’s most notable artists including Bill Anderson, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks
The Music Event of Summer is back in action featuring performances by Country Music’s hottest stars including hosts Dierks Bentley, Elle King and Lainey Wilson! The three-hour primetime concert special from the 50th Anniversary of CMA Fest airs Wednesday, July 19 at 8/7c on ABC. Want to join the party in person?! Four-night and single
A rediscovered Kenny Rogers duet with Dolly Parton is a love song just as sincere as the one that made their partnership famous. It’s as warm as the song that closed their professional relationship 30 years later. “Tell Me That You Love Me” was recorded and released for a compilation album about 15 years ago, but
Tanya Tucker sure knows how to make an entrance. The country icon made Grand Ole Opry history on Friday night (June 2) by riding a horse onto the stage at the country music institution to kick off her scheduled performance. The singer, whose hits include “Delta Dawn,” “Texas When I Die,” “Two Sparrows in a
Taylor Swift brought an extra dose of country to her Chicago, Ill. show on Saturday night (June 3), thanks to a surprise appearance from Maren Morris. Morris hopped onstage with Swift for a live rendition of “You All Over Me,” which is a From the Vault track off of Swift’s 2021 Taylor’s Version of her
On Thursday (June 1), CMA Fest revealed additional performers set to take the Nissan Stadium stage in 2023. Jo Dee Messina, Tracy Lawrence, Tanya Tucker and Josh Turner have been added to the lineup. They join Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Tim McGraw and Luke Combs, who are just a few of the artists
Thirty-seven years ago today, on June 2, 1986, Randy Travis dropped his major-label debut album. Storms of Life was released on Warner Bros. Records. Storms of Life includes a re-release of Travis’ first chart-topping single, “On the Other Hand,” as well as “Diggin’ Up Bones” and “No Place Like Home,” two additional No. 1 hits for Travis. When the label first released
Country music fans have been blessed over the past 30-plus years with some great debut albums by budding stars. Selections range from Garth Brooks and Toby Keith’s opening statements to the more recent tides of change represented by Maren Morris and Luke Combs’ mainstream arrivals. The standard by which those artists get judged were set in
On June 2, 2003, Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett teamed up to release the pint glasses-clinking ode “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere.” The song appears on Jackson’s Greatest Hits Volume II album; the two men had also teamed up in 1999 to cover Buffett’s beloved “Margaritaville” on Jackson’s covers album, Under the Influence. “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” was
Luke Bryan has revealed the lineup for his upcoming 2023 Farm Tour. Kameron Marlowe, Chayce Beckham, the Peach Pickers and DJ Rock will accompany the country superstar on five dates on his annual tour, which takes place in September in 2023. Bryan launched his first Farm Tour in 2009, and the annual event awards college
Brandy Clark wasn’t looking to change producers when she started the process of making her fourth album, a self-titled record that arrived on May 19. For her two prior records, she’d worked with Jay Joyce, and been happy with the results. But when Brandi Carlile — an artist she had previously duetted with — made a striking
When Dolly Parton turned her country career toward the pop charts, she did it with a Cynthia Weil song. The legendary songwriter died on Thursday (June 1) at age 82. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and her husband Barry Mann were behind dozens of hit songs. They were a force in the
If the rest of Ashley McBryde‘s new The Devil I Know album is as raw as the song she released on Friday (June 2), her fans might need to ask for the day off work. The Devil I Know is McBryde’s fourth studio album on WMN, following Lindeville from 2022. In April she released the title track.
Twelve years ago today, on June 2, 2011, Shania Twain‘s celebrity status reached a new level. It was on that date that the singer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, celebrating almost two decades of success in the music industry. Twain’s star was unveiled by President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
Jelly Roll is one of country music’s hottest new artists, with fans clamoring for tickets on his upcoming 2023 Backroad Baptism Tour. But in a new interview, he says his past felony conviction still makes things complicated for him — even in his work. In December of 2022, he even sold out a hometown show at
Kimberly Perry recounts her difficult road to motherhood in a new mini-documentary that centers around “If I Die Young” and its follow-up sequel song, the recently released “If I Die Young Pt. 2.” In the five-and-a-half-minute video, Perry says that shortly before she wrote the “Pt. 2” version of the song, she suffered a pregnancy
Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh has just bought a bungalow in California, and pictures show a luxurious property fit for a rock star — or his son. The legendary singer-songwriter and instrumentalist plunked down $2.345 million for a 3-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,446-square-foot bungalow in Sherman Oaks, and though it’s not a massive mansion, the home has all
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John Osborne and Lucie Silvas are a musical power couple who came together thanks to (what else?) music. The pair first met in 2007, at a songwriting session. In a 2016 interview with The Bluegrass Situation, Osborne — one-half of Brothers Osborne — joked that he had “ulterior motives” for the collaboration. “I wasn’t there to