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A couple of decades have passed since Brad Paisley, 51, first wooed a woman with the pickup line, “Girl, I can hardly wait to get a little mud on the tires” in his 2003 hit, “Mud on the Tires.” On his new song “Truck Still Works,” that girl is back …

Hugh Prestwood, the country songwriter who penned hits for Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, Alison Krauss, and Jimmy Buffett, died Sunday, Sept. 22, following a stroke, according to his close friend, songwriter James Dean Hicks. Prestwood was 82. With hits like “Ghost in This House,” “The Song Remembers When,” and “Hard …

Jerry Douglas took the stage and stood proudly while being inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame during the 35th annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards show Thursday night in Raleigh. “You don’t get here alone,” the 68-year-old Dobro legend told the audience at the Martin Marietta Center for …

Shaboozey, MGK, and Morgan Wallen were among the winners at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards. Hosted by Shania Twain, the fan-voted awards were held in Nashville at the Opry House, the home of the Grand Ole Opry. 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards winners list: The People’s Artist of 2024BeyoncéJelly …

To be fair, when the People’s Choice Country Awards announced Shania Twain as their host for 2024, they never said the country music pioneer would perform. But Twain’s opening —choreographed, dramatic, and over the top —sure got our hopes up that one was coming. As the synth intro to Twain’s …

Steady and true as a Bible verse, their love is real … at least for the duration of a song. Cody Johnson and Carrie Underwood, who are both married to other people, have teamed up for a new duet professing their ardor for each other, “I’m Gonna Love You.” The …

Standing on the State Street Stage, which straddles the Tennessee-Virginia border, at this month’s Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, 49 Winchester’s Isaac Gibson looked out at the sprawling audience facing him and sang the chorus that so many came to hear: “And if you wonder how I’m doing/know that I …

Johnny Cash will become the first professional musician to receive a statue in the U.S. Capitol. The likeness of the Man in Black will be unveiled during a morning ceremony at the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall on Sept. 24 and become part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. Each U.S. state …

Country music artist Miranda Lambert plays two artists on repeat: Bell Bottom Country singer Lainey Wilson and pop supernova Chappell Roan. The “Bluebird” singer appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show Tuesday, singing a duet with Clarkson of Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” The stars sang a raspy rendition of the chart-topping …

This spring, aspiring “indie outlaw” singer Sarah Gross performed a Patsy Cline-ified cover of “Red Wine Supernova” at a gig in Long Island. “Rip Hank Williams he would have loved Chappell Roan,” she wrote when she uploaded the video to TikTok in April, with a captionthat’d soon become prophetic: “The …