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Walker Hayes isn’t the only member of his family who’s found a bigger audience thanks to his viral hit song “Fancy Like.” His oldest daughter, Lela, helped her dad create the dance that goes with the track, and she’s getting noticed because of it. “She gets recognized all the time now, and she’s real cute

On Oct. 15, 1973, Dolly Parton released her now-classic song “Jolene.” The No. 1 song (as of February of 1974) wasn’t her first to reach the country charts’ highest peak, but it did help launch one of her most successful years to date, as she followed up “Jolene” with two more chart-toppers: “I Will Always Love You” and “Love

While rock legends such as Jimi Hendrix and Slash typically dominate the “best guitarist ever” conversations, country music is no slouch when it comes to producing legendary shredders. A guy or gal playing a guitar is the basis for most country music, so it makes sense that the genre would be littered with supremely talented

Cody Johnson experienced a life-changing emergency this year that totally shifted his perspective. He was with his wife and his management team on a private plane headed to a NASCAR event when the pilot said, “We’re going down.” “I said, ‘You mean we’re taking it down,'” Johnson recalls. “He said, ‘No, you need to prepare yourself. We’re going

There are many famous country music couples, but very few of them have had recent success on country radio. With “Chasing After You” now a Top 10 hit, Ryan Hurd and Maren Morris become just the third married pair to do it since the year 2001. Clint Black‘s (Lisa Hartman Black) “When I Said I Do”

Season 21 of The Voice continued its grueling Live Battle Rounds on Tuesday (Oct. 12). And among the many pairings of the night were two young female singers going up against each other on a country superstar’s major crossover hit. Team Blake’s Hailey Green and Lana Scott dueled it out on a cover of Maren

Kacey Musgraves cleaned up at the 2019 Grammy Awards with her 2018 Golden Hour album, winning not only three genre-specific trophies but also the coveted, all-genre Album of the Year award. But as she heads toward the 2022 Grammy Awards, it’s already clear that things will be a little different. According to Billboard, during a recent meeting,

Texas mainstay Randy Rogers Band have released a new single, “Picture Frames.” Co-written by band frontman Randy Rogers with singer-songwriter/producer Drew Kennedy, it’s a heartfelt look back on a love story, as told through the pictures hanging on the couple’s wall. The song’s first verse begins at the beginning, recounting an early date in New Orleans. “We

Mark Wystrach — the lead singer of country trio Midland — has a baby boy on the way, due in December. Mark’s wife Ty Haney used video from a recent trip to a bowling alley to make the announcement on Instagram. “Sunny manifested a baby brother like I did this STRIKEE,” Haney captions a video which shows her

Eighteen years ago today (Oct. 11, 2003), Tim McGraw had one good reason to celebrate: His latest single, “Real Good Man,” had soared to the top of the charts, becoming his 17th No. 1 song. The uptempo, rocking “Real Good Man,” which is still a concert favorite, was the fourth single from McGraw’s multi-platinum album Tim McGraw and

Brandi Carlile offered up an epic version of the Elton John classic “Madman Across the Water” during a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show. For the performance, Carlile is backed by her longtime collaborators, twins Phil and Tim Hanseroth, and a string trio. The cover features a guitar interpretation of the song’s famous piano riff, as

Nashville seemed like a longshot when it debuted on ABC on Oct. 10, 2012 — nine years ago today — but the show defied all odds to become one of country music fans’ favorite television shows of all time. It’s notoriously difficult to capture the true vibe of Nashville’s music scene in films and on

Even a legend like Reba McEntire is thrilled to get a chance to sing with Dolly Parton. She says their just-released collaboration, on McEntire’s early-’90s hit “Does He Love You,” is a “dream come true.” “We were just thrilled to pieces” when Parton agreed to sing with her, McEntire says. Parton was McEntire’s first choice for the

On this date (Oct. 9) in 1993, chances are good that Vince Gill was celebrating. It was that day, 28 years ago, that his single “One More Last Chance” became his third No. 1 hit. The comedic “One More Last Chance,” which Gill wrote with famed tunesmith Gary Nicholson, comes from Gill’s multi-platinum-selling album I Still Believe in You. That

Reba McEntire isn’t going to return to host the CMA Awards in 2021. The country icon simply wasn’t invited back for the Nov. 10 show on ABC, but her replacement has yet to be be announced. A few candidates seem likely — but this singer feels like an exciting long shot. We’ll make the case for Justin Timberlake a

Amanda Shires‘ “Gone for Christmas” is a wish-filled holiday kiss-off. It’s the first song from a full-length Christmas album from the singer and songwriter, arriving in mid-November. Slinky piano — somewhat a la “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” if we’re looking for festive comparisons — stomps and ragged fiddle set the tone for “Gone for Christmas,”

In 2010, Jo Dee Messina released an EP trilogy, the Unmistakable series. Unmistakable: Inspiration, the final of the three projects, includes a particularly personal song, “That’s God.” Messina was in the midst of some personal struggles when she and bandmate Brent Rader co-wrote “That’s God.” She’d been inspired and reminded of the presence of a higher

Lainey Wilson has gotten a chuckle out of most of the responses to her chart-topping song “Things a Man Oughta Know.” It’s really wild, she says, what some women think their man oughta know. “One girl was like, ‘I think a man should know all the Disney princesses,'” Wilson tells Taste of Country Nights‘ Evan and

With five weeks to go before the 2021 CMA Awards, country music fans still don’t know who will be hosting the Country Music Association’s annual awards show this year. However, Billboard has confirmed, it won’t be veteran country music awards show host Reba McEntire. The publication reports that McEntire shared in a recent interview that she

Country star and veteran The Voice coach Blake Shelton filled out his Season 21 roster of hopefuls during Tuesday night’s (Oct. 4) set of blind auditions. The eight-time champion, who calls his team the G.O.A.T (“greatest of all time”), turned his chair for rock singer Tommy Edwards. The 27-year-old from Montana performed in the middle of the