Little Big Town offered a powerful performance of their new single “The Daughters” at the 54th ACM Awards. Surrounded by an army of choreographed female dancers, Karen Fairchild — singing lead — and her bandmates in LBT shined a light on the expectations placed on young women. “Girl, don’t be …
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Ashley McBryde took a recent phone call from country superstar Carrie Underwood, who passed along the news that McBryde had been named ACM Female Vocalist of the Year ahead of this weekend’s upcoming awards show. The moment was captured for the camera in a segment profiling the buzzworthy artist for …
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Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary Country Music will begin airing on PBS stations before the year is out, but a piece of it will live on forever at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. At a press conference on Wednesday in Nashville, Burns showed a clip from the documentary …
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Last year, after Rolling Stone Country published an in-depth report on the culture of sexual harassment and misconduct in the world of country radio, Tennessee legislators introduced HB 1984/SB 2130, a bill that would offer full-time employee rights to artists and freelancers concerning sexual harassment. Led by Democrats Rep. Brenda …
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On Monday morning, Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens and former label executive Jerry Bradley were announced as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Television and radio host Bill Cody, filling in for an under-the-weather Reba McEntire, handled hosting duties for the live-streamed event in the museum’s …
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Todd Snider has been staying at his Airbnb in downtown New York for less than 24 hours, but the apartment is already filled with the 52-year-old singer-songwriter’s personal touches: weed, an acoustic guitar, a loose wad of cash on the coffee table, and a laptop opened to a YouTube search …
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“What’s the name of the group?” tease Boyz II Men before launching into “Motownphilly” for CMT Crossroads, joined by country Number One machine Brett Young. The venerable vocal group, who famously name-checked themselves in the 1991 debut single, and the “In Case You Didn’t Know” vocalist are the latest pairing …
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Brad Paisley gives praise to a higher power in his unabashedly smitten new love song, “My Miracle,” the country star’s first single and first new music of 2019. Co-written by Paisley and Gary Nicholson, “My Miracle” is a tribute to Paisley’s wife of 16 years, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and spares no …
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Country-rock veterans Travis Tritt and the Charlie Daniels Band launch their 2019 Outlaws & Renegades Tour on Friday night in St. Augustine, Florida, with special guest the Cadillac Three. The trek, which extends through June before a brief break and then picks back up in August, will feature CDB contemporaries …
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Thomas Rhett took the Saturday Night Live stage this weekend to debut not one, but two new songs — his single “Look What God Gave Her” and the much funkier, horn-laced “Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time,” which put on display the superb, soulful talents of background singer and …
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