Sounds Like Darius Rucker Has Been Sneaking Into Nashville Bars in a Mask

If you head down to a bar in Nashville’s Broadway area one afternoon, you just might catch one of country music’s biggest stars, Darius Rucker, at the next table. Last year, Rucker relocated to Nashville with his 16-year-old son Jack. Even though he sells out arenas and just earned his 10th No. 1 hit on... Read more »

Keith Urban Once Forgot His Guitar Solo During a CMA Fest Performance With Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift

Keith Urban is one of music’s preeminent guitarists, but even the best of the best can forget a guitar line or two. For Urban, that forgetful moment just happened to come when he was performing “Highway Don’t Care” alongside Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw, in front of thousands of fans at CMA Fest in 2013.... Read more »

Miranda Lambert Will Become First Female Country Artist With a Bar on Nashville’s Broadway

Miranda Lambert concluded her 2019 album, Wildcard, with the track “Dark Bars,” and it looks like she’s taking that love of intimate venues with good music seriously. Lambert just announced she will open a bar on Nashville’s Lower Broadway, Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa, located at 308 Broadway, according to a report from the Nashville Business... Read more »

PREMIERE: Duo Cross Atlantic Crafts A Love Letter To Their Childhood Neighborhoods In “Dear Hometown” Video

Embedded from www.youtube.com. The emotional tug between chasing dreams and staying close to home is one so many country songs have been written about, perhaps none as sweetly as Cross Atlantic’s “Dear Hometown,” a love letter to the places and people that helped raise the duo’s Karli Chayne and James Sinclair-Stott. Missouri native Chayne and... Read more »

CMT to Premiere ‘Midland: The Sonic Ranch Documentary’ on March 19

Before earning radio hits such as 2017’s Platinum-certified “Drinkin’ Problem,” and churning out progressive-meets-retro, barroom-ready songs such as “Mr. Lonely” and “Cheating Songs” on their 2019 sophomore project, Midland’s Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy formed the group during a series of recording sessions in Texas back in 2014. Duddy—also a filmmaker and music... Read more »

Is Thomas Rhett Dropping New Music on Friday?

“That’s a Friday, y’all.” Thomas Rhett’s social media activity on Tuesday, March 2, involved a cryptic post of an image of a sepia-toned square, marked with “March 5” written and underlined in the middle. Though he did not explain the date’s meaning, he did note Friday as the week’s day correlating to the date. Typically... Read more »

Country Trio Lady A Launches Scholarship Fund for Historically Black Colleges And Universities

Trio Lady A has launched a LadyAID Scholarship Fund to help students attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The scholarship will first focus on students residing in Tennessee and Georgia, the home states of Lady A’s members Dave Haywood, Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley. Applications are open to students with a family household income... Read more »

Gabby Barrett Releases Live Version of Single “Footprints On The Moon”

No stranger to breakout success, Gabby Barrett continues her juggernaut rise to country stardom with the March 16 release of Live From The Goldmine, an EP following up her top-five Billboard Country charting album Goldmine, featuring number-one single “I Hope” with Charlie Puth. As part of that release, she’s debuted a live take on the... Read more »

Willie Nelson Loves Releasing Cover Songs, Even If Labels Say “Nobody Wants To Hear ‘Em”

Released February 26, That’s Life is impressively Willie Nelson’s 71st solo studio album. The tribute to Frank Sinatra is the second volume of Nelson’s Sinatra tribute collection, following 2018’s My Way. Cover songs have played an incredible role in elevating Nelson from being a country superstar to a global icon with an instantly recognizable voice.... Read more »

Tim McGraw Turns Family Road Trip Into Eagles Jam Session

McGraw recently took a road trip to Napa with his half-brothers Mark and Matthew, and they turned the long drive into their own personal carpool karaoke time. McGraw shared a brief video of the three siblings in a car, joining in to sing the Eagles classic “Hotel California.” My brothers and I took a road... Read more »