Stars gathered on the 2021 CMT Awards red carpet, leaving behind the muted tones that represented a muted year in 2020. Hot pink seems to be the most popular color right now among country music’s best dressed at the show on Wednesday night (June 9) in Nashville. The annual June showcase has long been a place to be
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Before delivering a performance of his newest single, “Not Yet,” on the Today show this week, Brett Young told the hosts of the show about an exciting new collaboration with his wife: a children’s book. Promoting an upcoming tour and album, Weekends Look a Little Different These Days, the country superstar tells Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and Dylan
In February of 2020, Robyn Ottolini released an independent EP, I’m Not Always Hilarious, featuring “F-150″ — the song that would become a viral hit on TikTok and help earn her a record deal with Warner Music Nashville — and three other breakup-focused, sad-girl country songs. Trouble was, she was about to fall in love. His name is Stephen,
Dierks Bentley‘s Seven Peaks Music Festival will return this Labor Day weekend, with Keith Urban leading a bill that features a diverse mix of country hitmakers, older stars and up-and-comers. Kip Moore, Ingrid Andress, Randy Houser and Travis Denning are a few of the other artists slated to play the main stage. The popular ’90s
Kid Rock angrily called a group of fans using their cell phones to record his concert “f–king f—ots” and gestured to his crotch in an onstage rant that was captured on camera. TMZ revealed video of the country-rock rapper using the homophobic slur — an incident that happened on Saturday night (June 5) at a bar
Miranda Lambert strolled into her Nashville bar and restaurant on Sunday night (June 6) and found singer Jon Pardi there, ready to dance. The pair two-stepped on the balcony to George Strait‘s “Check Yes or No” while dozens of fans watched from below, most with cell phones pointed upward to capture the moment. Pardi definitely led
Country icon and everyone’s favorite rum connoisseur Kenny Chesney has spent half his life in the music industry. As an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Chesney begin his career in 1993, at just 25 years old. But now, with two-plus decades in the business behind him, Chesney has recorded more than a dozen studio albums (many which have been certified
Though the true identity of the man behind the famous fringed masks is a secret, his talent is not. And now, Orville Peck has the co-sign from pop star Lady Gaga to prove it. For the 10th anniversary edition of Gaga’s 2011 album Born This Way, she enlisted the help of various artists to put new spins
On June 5, 1993, Toby Keith earned his first No. 1 song on the Hot Country Songs Billboard chart, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy.” Keith wrote the song himself; it was his debut single. Co-produced by Nelson Larkin and Harold Shedd — the pair that also co-produced all of Keith’s self-titled 1993 debut album – “Should’ve Been
John Mayer has just released a new single, and the track features guest vocals from Maren Morris. “Last Train Home” is the first single from Mayer’s upcoming album, Sob Rock. The singer-songwriter and guitarist dropped the new track on Friday (June 4), featuring the Grammy-winning country and pop singer on background vocals. The song draws
Eighteen years ago today, on June 5, 2003, Dwight Yoakam was honored for his extraordinary music and acting careers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Yoakam first moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in the late 1970s, as much for the musical influences of artists such as Clarence White, the Byrds and Gram Parsons as
Brad Paisley began playing the guitar at the young age of eight, taught by his maternal grandfather. When he was 10, he performed at church in his first live performance. Even though Paisley grew up in a small town in West Virginia and was known for his growing musical talent, no one could have predicted his superstardom
Rising country star Brit Taylor‘s new single “At Least There’s No Babies” wraps up her debut album, Real Me. Released on Friday (June 4), the brand-new song is one of three on forthcoming deluxe edition of the project, due out next month. “The album Real Me told my story, and it wasn’t always easy to share
Allie Colleen isn’t relying on her famous surname to make it as a country singer. Instead, the 24-year-old graduate of Belmont University is strategically doing her own thing and has paid her dues without riding the coattails of her father, Garth Brooks, or her stepmother, Trisha Yearwood (though she did work for a time as one of her dad’s backup singers).
This August, Gabby Barrett will hit the road with Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell and a special guest: Her baby daughter, Baylah. Barrett — a nine-time Billboard Music Awards nominee — opened up to Entertainment Tonight about what she imagines motherhood will look like once the Center Point Road Tour ticks off. “What it’ll kind of look like, we’ll have a tour bus. We’ll
Matthew McConaughey is publicly crediting Trisha Yearwood for giving him a break that transformed his acting career. In a new interview, the Oscar-winning actor acknowledges the country superstar for giving him a pivotal role in her now-classic video for “Walkaway Joe,” which helped launch his career. Yearwood and her husband, Garth Brooks, served as guest hosts on
Though Chris Stapleton has only been widely known as a solo superstar for a few years, he’s been working in music for nearly two decades. Throughout that time, he’s collaborated with countless artists as a songwriter and more than a few as a performer in his own right, bringing a soulful, gritty and downright beautiful sound to traditional
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
June 3 is unofficially Bobbie Gentry Day, as that’s the day the singer’s most famous character jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge in the smash hit “Ode to Billie Joe.” Fifteen years later, Gentry herself would jump to obscurity … but why? This week’s episode of the Secret History of Country Music Podcast explores Gentry’s sudden disappearance after the 1982 ACM Awards, and revisits
Soon after releasing “Some Gave All” as part of a multi-platinum album of the same name, Billy Ray Cyrus recorded a performance that lives on today as necessary viewing for Memorial Day. Fans were able to watch the performance during an ABC television special released in February 1993, nine months after Some Gave All achieved unprecedented