Florida Georgia Line surprised fans with the release of a new song from their upcoming album early Friday morning (Jan. 8). Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley dropped a fun new track titled “New Truck” from their forthcoming fifth studio album, Life Rolls On. The track features the same kind of light, fun energy that characterized
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Jake Owen shows off his acting chops in a teaser for the upcoming film, Our Friend. Based on the real-life story of journalist Matthew Teague and his wife Nicole, the movie is centered around an essay Teague wrote for Esquire in 2015 about the experience of having his friend Dane Faucheux move in with him and his wife to help them as Nicole
Thirty-one years ago today, on Jan. 9, 1990, Willie Nelson‘s Stardust album was certified quadruple platinum, for sales in excess of 4 million units. Stardust, released in 1978, includes two No. 1 hits, “Georgia on My Mind” and “Blue Skies.” The 10-track record features classics from all genres, including “Unchained Melody,” “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”
After nearly three months of teasing and a chain-store “leak,” Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album — in all its 30-track glory — was released on Friday. One of the most anticipated tracks pairs Wallen with Chris Stapleton. “Only Thing That’s Gone,” written by Wallen with Matt Dragstrem, Chase McGill, and Josh Thompson, delivers a
Barry Gibb and Keith Urban meet on a cinematic rendition of the Bee Gees’ hit “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You.” The song is one of a dozen new collaborations between the sole living Gibb brother and country, Americana and bluegrass artists. Urban’s voice is the first to greet listeners in this new version
Singer-songwriter Ed Bruce, who wrote “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” and more classic country hits, has died. According to a press release from his representative, Bruce died in Clarksville, Tenn., on Friday (Jan. 8) from natural causes at the age of 81. Born on Dec. 29, 1939, in Keiser, Ark.,
In 2008, Eric Church married Katherine Blasingame at Westglow Spa & Resort in Blowing Rock, N.C. The couple had stayed at the resort before, and, he tells CMT, “We decided that it would be the ideal spot to get married, up in the North Carolina mountains, with just family around us. I can’t imagine a more perfect
Ingrid Andress started off 2021 in style, delivering a performance of her single “Lady Like” on Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show With James Corden. The song is also the title track from her 2020 debut album, which was reissued in deluxe form in October. Andress begins the song seated at a white piano,
Miranda Lambert gets a little groovy with Barry Gibb and Rival Sons member Jay Buchanan on a new version of “Jive Talkin’,” a 1970s hit from Gibb’s band the Bee Gees. Lambert leads a number of lines in the collaboration, though she also offers harmonies throughout the track. Her voice is instantly recognizable and lends a new
Chris Stapleton lends heartbroken harmonies — and then some — to Morgan Wallen‘s new song “Only Thing That’s Gone.” The brand-new song, from Wallen’s new double album, Dangerous, has a modern edge, but with plenty of traditional tinge to place it in Stapleton’s wheelhouse, too. Wallen co-wrote “Only Thing That’s Gone” with Matt Dragstrem, Chase McGill and Josh Thompson.
Lady A‘s Hillary Scott and husband Chris Tyrrell are celebrating nine years as a married couple on Jan. 7, 2021 — and so far, it’s been quite the adventure. The two met while on a Tim McGraw tour in 2010, and a proposal soon followed. “Chris proposed exactly the way I’ve always dreamed,” Scott recalls. “Our families were
Country music made huge strides forward with streaming listeners in 2020, led by a handful of popular releases from Luke Combs and Morgan Wallen. That meant a bigger piece of a still-growing pie from a genre that has historically lagged with regard to streaming. Year-end data from the Rolling Stone Charts shows country music posting
A mob of pro-Donald Trump rioters stormed the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 6), breaking through barriers and into the building, putting the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, along with other government offices and officials, into lockdown. As the country followed the news on television and social media, many
After a bear of a year in 2020, there’s a glimmer of promise early in 2021. And if you ask us, these up-and-coming artists are shining pretty dang bright. The Boot’s 2021 artists to watch vary in genre, style, influence and background, but these country, Americana, folk and bluegrass newcomers are all poised to have breakout years.
Jamie Lin Wilson doesn’t remember hearing Cross Canadian Ragweed‘s “Sick and Tired” for the very first time, but she does remember hearing the news that the venerable Oklahoma-bred alt-country band had enlisted Lee Ann Womack for the song. “I just thought that was the coolest,” Wilson recalls. “Having someone that is a mainstream country star comin’ in
Morgan Wallen took retail giant Walmart to task after copies of his upcoming opus Dangerous: The Double Album appeared on shelves at a small number of stores around the country this weekend. A spokesperson for Walmart says the album was prematurely displayed and sold ahead of its official January 8th release date at “less than
Florida Georgia Line singer Tyler Hubbard is stepping outside of the superstar country duo for an upcoming collaboration with Tim McGraw. Hubbard and McGraw join musical forces on a song titled “Undivided,” which is set for release on Jan. 13. Hubbard co-wrote the song with Chris Loocke during a time of introspection while he was
In 2021, we’ll get to see how country music’s best artists have spent their time in quarantine. This list of 36 highly anticipated country albums includes projects from superstars such as Eric Church and Carrie Underwood and relative newcomers including Midland and Willie Jones. Is your favorite artist planning on releasing a new album this year? The first batch of
Amanda Shires kisses 2020 goodbye with a newly released cover of Genesis’ “That’s All” — and an accompanying lyric video that truly encompasses the wild and wacky year that was. The song, Shires says, “defines 2020 for me — a true COVID anthem.” Shires’ “That’s All” lyric video, created by Deren Ney, features “murder hornets,”
Sturgill Simpson delivered his bluegrass take on his 2014 track, “Life of Sin,” on The Tonight Show Monday, January 4th. The musician and his top-notch backing band delivered the song from the Station Inn in Nashville — a bluegrass hub in the city — with mandolin player Sierra Hull ripping through a particularly impressive solo.
Blake Shelton‘s new song “Minimum Wage” may have upset some people on social media, but Ronnie Dunn gets it. The Brooks & Dunn singer came to Shelton’s defense after the younger of the two Oklahomans received backlash after performing the song on NBC last Thursday (Dec. 31). On Twitter, country fans sounded off about the idea
It’s always exciting to see who will give birth to the first baby of the new year: Will the baby be born at midnight on Jan. 1, or will it be a few minutes after? Will its “Happy Birthday” song be sung along with “Auld Lang Syne”? Several country artists were born in January —
Hailey Whitters kicks off 2021 with a bang, enlisting Little Big Town to help her sing “Fillin’ My Cup.” Accompanied by a music video starring Whitters as a runaway bride, the new tune adorned with Little Big Town’s big harmonies puts Whitters’ endearing talent front and center. Directed by Harper Smith, the clip has Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild,
For more than 25 years, Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe has hosted its “Alive at the Bluebird” series to raise funds for the Middle Tennessee nonprofit Alive Hospice. The event will continue in 2021 and feature performances from Kendell Marvel and Shane McAnally, among others, but will shift to a streaming format due to Covid-19. Beginning Thursday,
Chris Lane and his wife, former The Bachelor contestant Lauren Bushnell, have revealed that their first child will be a baby boy. The “Big, Big Plans” singer shared the news with his fans in a post to Instagram on New Year’s Day on Friday (Jan. 1). He posted a video in which he hits a
Twenty-one years ago today (Jan. 3, 2000), LeAnn Rimes kicked off the new year — and the new millennium — on a high note: It was on that date that her eponymous studio album, released on Oct. 26, 1999, went platinum, the first record to do so in the 2000s. The 12-track LeAnn Rimes album features
Dave Cobb has a tradition for welcoming artists he’s producing to RCA Studio A. When they first set foot in the Nashville studio, he runs through a litany of the greats who’ve previously recorded there. Dolly Parton threw a wrench in that routine when she arrived to sing “Words” for Barry Gibb’s new album Greenfields.
Some artists take years to earn mainstream recognition, much less success. But Dustin Lynch, who moved to Nashville at age 18 to be a professional songwriter, struck platinum with his debut single, 2012’s “Cowboys and Angels.” The artist released the track nine years ago this month. Co-written by Josh Leo and Tim Nichols, “Cowboys and
Forty-six years ago today, on Jan. 2, 1975, Austin City Limits premiered on PBS. The show’s inaugural episode, which aired as part of a PBS pledge drive, featured Willie Nelson as its very first guest. ACL‘s original first episode actually taped on Oct. 13, 1974, and included an appearance by BW Stevenson. But when that recording was found unusable, Nelson
At first, Erin Rae’s new song “He’s Not Free” sounds like a sweetly rendered Southern pastoral, full of “early summer peaches” and “cold water glasses sweating.” But by the end of the first verse, when Rae rhymes “honeysuckle vines” with “Georgia voters stood in all-day lines” it’s clear that “He’s Not Free” is something else