Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, and Shania Twain will all be featured in the Grammy Museum’s new exhibit The Power of Women in Country Music, which is set to open May 27 in Los Angeles. The exhibit will look into the long history of trailblazing women in country music, from sonic …
Read More »Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile Lead 2022 Pilgrimage Festival Lineup
Chris Stapleton and Brandi Carlile are headlining the 2022 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival. The weekend festival — now in its eighth year — is set for Sept. 24 and 25 in Franklin, Tennessee, a short drive south from Nashville. Other artists performing at the Park at Harlinsdale Farm include …
Read More »Orville Peck Turns 'Kimmel' Stage Into a Neon Wonderland for 'C'mon Baby, Cry'
Orville Peck brought his uniquely emotive brand of cowboy-tinged country toJimmy Kimmel Live!Monday evening, delivering a rendition of single “C’mon Baby, Cry” awash in the glow of numerous large-scale neon light installations. Backed by a full band and decked out in a genre-appropriate Nudie-inspired suit, the masked crooner was flanked …
Read More »Ingrid Andress Wonders if She's a 'Good Person' in New Song
Ingrid Andress performs an intense spiritual and moral inventory in her new song “Good Person,” released with a video on Friday. The ballad co-written by Andress with Steph Jones and Sam Ellis is the first single from the “More Hearts Than Mine” singer’s follow-up to her debut album Lady Like. …
Read More »'I Should Have Died': Dave Alvin, Seminal California Country-Punk Guitarist, Talks Private Cancer Battle
By the end of 2019, Dave Alvin knew something was wrong. He’d spent 11 of the past 12 months on the road, and for the first time in his career, he no longer felt physically capable of keeping up his furious touring pace. “I started feeling like, ‘I don’t think …
Read More »CMT Music Awards 2022: The Complete Winners List
The CMT Music Awards — country’s version of MTV’s VMAs, to the uninitiated — celebrated the best country videos of the year during a three-hour show on Monday night. Held at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium and airing live for the first time on CBS, the CMT Awards handed out trophies in …
Read More »Watch Kelsea Ballerini Sing 'Heartfirst' — From Quarantine — at CMT Music Awards
Kelsea Ballerini gave the live TV debut of her new song “Heartfirst” at Monday night’s CMT Music Awards. But Ballerini wasn’t onstage in Nashville — rather, she sang the upbeat slice of country-pop at home after being sidelined by a case of Covid-19. Dressed in a green dress and strumming …
Read More »Miranda Lambert Saddles Up for 'If I Was a Cowboy' at the 2022 CMT Music Awards
Miranda Lambert performed her current single “If I Was a Cowboy” onstage at the 2022 CMT Music Awards in Nashville. The song appears on Lambert’s new studio album Palomino, which will be released April 29. Wearing a black jumpsuit with lime-green fringe and a pink and white hat, Lambert delivered …
Read More »CMA Fest Returns From Covid Hiatus With Luke Combs, Alan Jackson, and Carrie Underwood
Following two years of cancellation due to the pandemic, CMA Fest will officially return to downtown Nashville in June 2022. The four-day event set for June 9 through 12 announced its initial lineup on Tuesday, with themainstage performers at Nissan Stadium including Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson, and Luke Combs. Additional …
Read More »Turnpike Troubadours Reunited to Play Their First Show in 3 Years — Grown Men Cried
With house lights turned all the way down, and a steady fog machine masking the glow of several hundred smartphones, Evan Felker stepped onto the Cain’s Ballroom stage in Tulsa. He did a quick double-take when his eyes caught the 1,700 fans fortunate enough to have made it inside on …
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