Music

by Lauren Tingle 40 mins ago At age 14, rising artist Tegan Marie has a talent that most veteran songwriters would love to have. And that is to write a killer song that radiates happiness Read More

by Lauren Tingle 1h ago On the night of the 75th annual Golden Globes, Kalie Shorr dressed in black and went to a viewing party at her friend Kim Paige’s house. Other girlfriends were there Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 55 mins ago I bet Dolly Parton is really hard to shop for — like almost impossible. She’s probably one of those women who already has everything. So if you wanted to Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 32 mins ago Last night, when Miranda Lambert kicked off her Livin’ Like Hippies tour in South Carolina, she did it with new boots and a little red wagon. While she tweeted Read More

by Edward Morris 6h ago Never imbued with a frontier mentality when it came to cold weather, Nashville and Music Row virtually hibernated this week when confronted with snowfall approaching two inches and temperature dipping Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 55 mins ago It seems like every artist has a story. It usually starts with a dream of coming to Nashville, signing a record deal and then swiftly selling out arenas. Carly Read More

by Lauren Tingle 14 mins ago Jason Aldean‘s High Noon Neon Tour launches May 10 in Kansas City, Mo. with Luke Combs and Lauren Alaina. The initial schedule for the 2018 run lists 34 cities Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 35 mins ago Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Eric Church may or may not take home Grammy Awards later this month. But they will walk away winners after they take the stage Read More

by Lauren Tingle 42 mins ago Keith Urban took over Nashville’s Exit/In for a pop-up show on Wednesday (Jan. 17) to announce the title of his next album Graffiti U and a 2018 world tour Read More

by Lauren Tingle 7 mins ago Lindi Ortega’s next album will be a concept album split into three movements. Arriving March 30, Liberty explores themes of loss, séance, resurrection and freedom. Ortega wrote and co-wrote Read More

by Lauren Tingle 35 mins ago Jordan Davis, a member of CMT’s “18 for 2018” Listen Up campaign, will release his full-length debut album Home State on March 23. The Louisiana native co-wrote all 12 Read More

by Lauren Tingle 8 mins ago In observance of their 20th anniversary as a band, Old Crow Medicine Show‘s Ketch Secor, Critter Fuqua, Cory Younts, Morgan Jahnig, Chance McCoy and Kevin Hayes have decided to Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 1 min ago You have to love this about Dolly Parton. She receives two Guinness World Records 2018 edition, and in the video interview, she says, “I’m not done yet.” So maybe Read More

by Lauren Tingle 13 mins ago Fans can look forward to a summer full of hits when Lady Antebellum and Darius Rucker embark on their co-headlining Summer Plays On Tour. Russell Dickerson will join them Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 57 mins ago I guess the years have changed Dierks Bentley. Thirteen years ago, he was singing that he was not going to settle down, that his old boots still had a Read More

by Lauren Tingle 11 mins ago Kenny Chesney has left his label home for more than 20 years and signed a new recording contract with Warner Music Nashville under the imprint Blue Chair/Warner Bros. Chesney Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 33 mins ago I didn’t know quite what to make of Lennon Stella’s New Year’s Eve post from a boat somewhere in Greece. “Goodbye 2017 – I found myself in you,” Stella Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 55 mins ago I would love to have seen the text messages Dierks Bentley sent out inviting his artist friends to join him onstage for the grand opening of his Whiskey Row Read More

by Lauren Tingle 3h ago Fifty years ago on Jan. 13, 1968, Johnny Cash headlined two performances for inmates incarcerated at California’s Folsom Prison. Recordings from the shows were made into the live album titled Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 23 mins ago Midland may be a brand new band, but already they are up for two Grammy awards, they have been selected as one of the New Faces at the upcoming Read More

by Edward Morris 4h ago It’s not a bad party when — within the space of an hour — you get a hug from Rhonda Vincent, shake the hummingbird-fast picking hand of the great Bobby Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 38 mins ago Sometimes, what you want to say and what everyone else thinks you need to say can be worlds apart. It took Lauren Alaina a couple albums to learn that, Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 27 mins ago If Carrie Underwood hadn’t pursued country music, I think she would’ve made the an unstoppable football coach. “When we were writing ‘The Champion,’ our main focus was to celebrate Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 23 mins ago Miranda Lambert wanted us to get on the bandwagon, whatever that is. She shared a picture on social media on Wednesday (Jan. 10) of some words on some shiplap: Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 49 mins ago Sometime last year, Cam was having a little bit of self-doubt before one of her shows. It was all about the am-I-pretty-enough question that runs through almost every woman’s Read More

by Lauren Tingle 18 mins ago Eddie Montgomery’s face lights up with a smile when he talks about his late partner, Troy Gentry. Montgomery lovingly referred to him as “T” or “T-Roy” during our CMT.com Read More

by Lauren Tingle 3 mins ago Performances from the Dixie Chicks‘ DCX MMXVI World Tour will be featured on a new live album arriving on Friday (Jan. 12). The Chicks’ Natalie Maines, Martie Erwin and Read More

by Lauren Tingle 7h ago Brandi Carlile, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss, Little Big Town and Zac Brown Band will perform the songs of Fleetwood Mac at the rock band’s 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 29 mins ago From Alpharetta to West Palm Beach, and about 23 stops in between, Rascal Flatts will be spending their 2018 summer getting Back to Us. And this time, they’re bringing Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 59 mins ago I feel like it’s 2002 all over again. That was the year Tim McGraw left Nashville with his band to record music in the mountains of upstate New York. Read More

by Lauren Tingle 17 mins ago The new year promises new music by Americana favorites, powerhouse vocalists and some of country music’s top duos and icons. Brothers Osborne‘s “Shoot Me Straight” is the first taste Read More

by Edward Morris 6h ago That great swooshing sound you hear are albums rushing back to reclaim their territory after having been bumped off the Billboard chart to make way for Christmas titles. There are Read More

by Lauren Tingle 7h ago Russell Dickerson is seeing a lifetime of work coming to fruition with his breakout ballad “Yours.” After a 37-week climb up Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, it has become Dickerson’s first Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 5h ago It’s been just about 20 years since Kendell Marvel moved to Nashville. And just about three months since he released his first album Lowdown & Lonesome. What he’s been doing Read More

by Lauren Tingle 12 mins ago Brothers Osborne, Tyler Childers, Midland, Old Crow Medicine Show and Sturgill Simpson are among the country and Americana acts booked for the 2018 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Eminem, Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 3h ago Chris D’Elia is one of the funniest comedians I’ve ever seen or heard. But the comedy stops when he decides to get serious as he did on Instagram on Sunday Read More

by CMT.com Staff 21 mins ago Kalie Shorr, one of the most articulate rising artists in today’s mainstream country music, will release her next EP, Awake on January 26. The seven-song collection features the lead Read More

by Lauren Tingle 29 mins ago Less than a year after suffering a stroke in May 2017, Loretta Lynn is recovering from another health obstacle. In an Instagram post on Monday (Jan. 8), her sister Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 15 mins ago It sounds like Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman’s daughters Sunday and Faith are already little advocates for women’s rights. At Sunday night’s (Jan. 7) Golden Globes, the couple walked Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 42 mins ago Over the weekend, Rascal Flatts frontman Gary Levox wasn’t just praying for daylight. He was praying prayers of thanks that when his bus went up in flames, he was Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 46 mins ago When one of Maren Morris‘ followers asked the highly acclaimed singer-songwriter for a little career advice — “Any tips for writers and singers planning a move there ready to Read More

by Edward Morris 21 mins ago Brass monkeys were spotted among the crowd Thursday afternoon (Jan. 4) as it scurried along the subfreezing sidewalks of Nashville’s Music Row and into the BMI building to celebrate Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 40 mins ago At this point in Thomas Rhett‘s career, he’s won plenty of awards, broken plenty of records, and landed on plenty of lists. But this one, I think, is a Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 35 mins ago Garth Brooks has got friends in low places, alright. Starting with George Strait and Mark Chestnutt. The first single off Garth Brooks’ second album No Fences came with its Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 39 mins ago I’m sure there are some bands who only share the stage and not much else. But in country music, bands become families, especially when the families start to grow. Read More

by Edward Morris 2h ago The bomb cyclone that hit America’s East Coast and dropped severe winter weather from Florida to Maine has receded, according to the National Weather Service. But the nation now faces Read More

by Lauren Tingle 3 mins ago Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium will host a celebration of life service for the late Mel Tillis on January 31 at 10 a.m. The memorial service is free and open to Read More

by Lauren Tingle 5h ago Country legend Mickey Gilley and his son, Michael Gilley, sustained minor injuries from a car accident on Wednesday (Jan. 3). According to a press release, the two were driving back Read More

by Alison Bonaguro 13 mins ago I wish I could tell you that Anderson East and his girlfriend came up with his “Girlfriend,” but it’s just not the case. East’s latest song off his Encore Read More

by Edward Morris 1h ago Christmas leftovers haunt the charts as well as your refrigerators. Billboard‘s first country albums chart for 2018 is still festooned with Christmas titles, and the only new song on the Read More