The nominations have been announced for the 2024 CMA Awards and this year’s crop of nominees include a number of familiar faces, a few new names, and the return of a past winner. Morgan Wallen is the top nominee with seven total nods, mostly on the strength of his chart-topping …
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Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson performed a medley of her “bell bottom country,” as she calls it, along with some Southern rock during an appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Wilson dove into her 19-minute performance with the barn-burning “Hang Tight Honey,” the second tune off …
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Over the past decade, Lainey Wilson has established herself as a Nashville force. The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year and recently-inducted Grand Ole Opry member has written songs for the likes of Luke Combs and Flatland Cavalry; she’s appeared on the modern WesternYellowstoneafter having songs of hers featured on …
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The Grand Ole Opry hosted Post Malone‘s version of a welcome wagon on Wednesday when he made his debut at the country music institution. After months of overtures to the genre’s tastemakers in preparation for his upcoming Friday release, F-1 Trillion, Malone flanked his performance with appearances by Brad Paisley, …
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Morgan Wallen had not one, but two surprise guests join him during his show in Kansas City on Thursday. During his Arrowhead Stadium performance, the country star welcomed Brooks & Dunn and Lainey Wilson for unexpected duets. In the middle of his set, after playing his Post Malone song “I …
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At the Toby Keith tribute concert in Nashville earlier this week, Lainey Wilson made a dramatic entrance on horseback, riding from the back of the arena to take her place in the spotlight onstage. The latest release from Wilson’s upcoming album Whirlwind continues her equine theme with help from another …
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For a guy who didn’t live in Nashville and bucked every Music Row norm he could, Toby Keith sure was loved by the country music community. That was apparent on Monday night at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, where A-listers like Eric Church, Jelly Roll, Luke Bryan, Lainey Wilson, and Keith’s fellow …
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Whirlwind, the forthcoming album from Lainey Wilson, is surely the most anticipated country blockbuster of the year. Now, with the album less than two months away, the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year is front-loading the release with a slew of teases. One day after releasing the video to “Hang …
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Lainey Wilson leans into the vintage vibes of music revues in the new video for “Hang Tight Honey,” a rambunctious travelogue clip that follows the country star and her band through a performance and on the road. The video has two main setups. The first casts Wilson as a Sixties-style …
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The Rolling Stones are collecting country singers one by one on their ongoing Hackney Diamonds stadium tour. Early in June, Tyler Childers joined the band for a performance of “Dead Flowers” in Orlando. And during their recent stop in Chicago, they performed the same country-inspired song with Lainey Wilson. The …
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