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Lee Brice keeps his trio of ACM Awards prizes tucked away in his gun room now that he has three kids occupying his home. That means less chance of the country music mementos getting dinged or damaged, as the singer recently told Taste of Country Nights. He could add a fourth trophy to that collection later this week. The

“From corporate actions at one of the largest financial firms to losing everything andmoving back in with his mom only to re-emerge again re-shaping the music tech worldtoday.” During this Pandemic, rap artist and self-taught software developer Escoth has utilized his downtime time cranking away at code and recording songs for his new EP on

In 2010, Steel Magnolia — Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones, then a couple — scored a Top 5 country hit with their debut single, “Keep on Lovin’ You.” Released in September of 2009, the song was co-written by hit country writer Trent Willmon and now-superstar Chris Stapleton. At the time, Stapleton was in the

After a six-month delay as organizers figured out how (and where) to stage an awards show during a global pandemic, the 55th annual Academy of Country Music Awards finally announce their winners on Wednesday night. Dubbed “A Night of Heart and Hits Live From Nashville,” the ACMs, hosted by Keith Urban, will feature the requisite

Florida Georgia Line‘s new song “Long Live” harkens back to the duo’s first album and easily digestible singles like “Cruise,” “Round Here” and “This Is How We Roll.” Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley add some nostalgia to a lyric that finds them living just outside of what they sing. The pair are family men now, but

After teasing for a few months that he had something in the works — and sharing a couple of new songs in the process — Keith Urban is officially releasing his 11th studio album. Urban’s announcement came on May 8, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, as artists and fans alike have been forced to

Though somewhat new to the LA music scene, Josh has been singing and songwriting his entire life. His talents were fostered by his musically-gifted family, who often spent time writing songs together and performing at their church. Keeping family in mind, Josh and his twin brother later took their high school band to great heights,

Twenty-four years ago today, on Sept. 13, 1996, LeAnn Rimes made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry. Rimes, who was 14 years old at the time and signed to Curb Records, sang her then-current single, “Blue,” the title track of her freshman album, along with “I Wanna Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” and “Blue Moon

Taylor Swift will perform”Betty” live for the first time during the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards on Wednesday, September 16th. For the ACM Awards, Swift will deliver her Folklore track from Nashville’s Grand Ol’ Opry. The ACM performance will mark Swift’s first at the award show in seven years; the singer is a two-time

Singer-songwriter Skip Ewing found a new saddle in Wyoming, but didn’t necessarily give up on making new music. The tunesmith has a new album coming later this month, and the title track, “Wyoming,” is what it sounds like when an industry veteran finds his voice again. The colorful, sharply-written, wistful earworm finds Ewing leaving someone

Hit Nashville songwriter Troy Jones, whose credits included a Grammy nomination for the Billy Currington hit “People Are Crazy,” has died at the age of 64. According to industry sources on social media, Jones died in an accident at his home on Friday (Sept. 11), when a live electrical current touched his boat dock. According

Eleven years ago today (Sept. 13, 2009) might be a day that Taylor Swift would just as soon forget. What started out as a joyous occasion, with Swift giving a heartfelt acceptance speech after winning Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards, turned into an awkward moment, when she was interrupted by hip-hop artist Kanye

It may sound obvious, but Orville Peck doesn’t particularly go for casual dress. The masked entertainer tends to complement his signature facial fringe with bright colors and rhinestones, nods to a bygone era of country music when the entertainers lived large and wore the clothes to prove it. “That’s what I grew up loving,” Peck

Songwriter Luke Laird (Eric Church, Sam Hunt, Miranda Lambert) is relying on his own voice for songs from his new Music Row album. Tracks such as “Good Friends” find an easy groove between pop and traditional country. That’s not to say the song shoots straight down the middle, though. Steel guitar cries across the intro and

Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 12, 1994, George Jones had a birthday to remember, even if it wasn’t the way he had hoped: It was on that date that the singer had triple bypass surgery at Nashville’s Baptist Hospital, where he remained hospitalized for one week. Jones was rushed to the hospital the night

Seventeen years ago today, country music lost one of its most beloved stars: Johnny Cash. The legendary singer died on Sept. 12, 2003, of complications from diabetes; he was 71. Cash began his historic career in 1955 with his first single, “Hey Porter.” He went on to record more than 100 albums and release over 150

Gillian Welch has shared two more songs from her upcoming collection of previously unheard material, Boots No 2: the Lost Songs, Vol. 2: “Beautiful Boy” and “I Just Want You to Know.” “Beautiful Boy” is a sweet but devastating song in which Welch captures the anxiety and unease that often accompanies a newfound love —

Sadler Vaden‘s “Best Days” is both a prayer and a belief, the singer-songwriter says. Readers can hear the recently released track above. “I wrote “Best Days” during one of my worst days. Nothing was going right, and it was in the midst of the George Floyd protests,” Vaden shares of the new song. “I started

Carrie Underwood is singing the Sunday Night Football theme for an eighth season in 2020, and she says she’s grateful to still be part of the team — especially this year. “We all want to make each year feel special and unique,” Underwood says in a video that gives fans a behind-the-scenes peek at the making

Sixteen years ago today, on Sept. 11, 2004, Terri Clark was undoubtedly doing plenty of celebrating. It was on that date that her single “Girls Lie Too,” from her Greatest Hits 1994-2004 album, soared to the top of the charts, becoming her second single to take the No. 1 slot in the United States. The

“Everything I do is a temporary fix,” Maggie Rose laments in her new song “20/20,” written and recorded in the early days of the quarantine. Beginning as a gentle solo piano ballad, “20/20” transitions into a full-band swoon, with the Nashville soul singer finding a glimmer of hope in a really bad year. “I’ve seen

Singer-songwriter Jeremy Ivey suits up – hazmat suits up, that is — for a visit to Nashville’s Lower Broadway in his new “Things Could Get Much Worse” music video. Press play above to watch. After shutting down for much of the spring early on in the novel coronavirus pandemic, the reopening of honky-tonks on Broadway in

In 1968, the ACM Awards honored Glen Campbell and his record Gentle on My Mind with the very first Album of the Year award. Since that day, 50-plus years ago, Album of the Year has remained one of the most coveted titles awarded at the ACMs. While Campbell won the award for a second year in a row (alongside

A global pandemic forcing you to empty your tour calendar and stay off the road for the summer months and then some isn’t all bad, Keith Urban has discovered. The country superstar and his family recently made a temporary move to their home country of Australia during the novel coronavirus pandemic, and while their reasons for

Singer-songwriter Jeremy Ivey braves downtown Nashville in a hazmat suit in the riotous new video for “Things Could Get Much Worse.” The song appears on Ivey’s upcoming album Waiting Out the Storm, which was produced by Ivey’s collaborator and wife, Margo Price. Directed by Houston Mathews, the clip was shot in a single afternoon on

Singer-songwriter Thomas Csorba focuses on injustice in the United States in his new song “Crooked Kind of Free.” The song is premiering exclusively on The Boot; press play below to listen. Csorba was inspired to write this new song “that tries to come to terms with the brokenness in this country,” he explains to The Boot,

Louisiana native Laine Hardy is no stranger to drawing musical inspiration from his hometown. Ever since his American Idol victory in 2019, the singer’s dropped a number of poignant, nostalgia-fueled odes to small-town familiarity, including “Ground I Grew Up On” and “Let There Be Country.” “Tiny Town” continues in that vein, with a lonesome twist: In the song, Hardy

Dierks Bentley‘s Instagram dispatches from the novel coronavirus pandemic have grown sparser as the months have worn on: a snap from a recent mountain-biking adventure here, a nostalgic-for-live music shot there, an occasional promotional post for his daughters’ radio show or the Hot Country Knights. He’s been quarantining with his family in Colorado, and honestly, scrolling through

In an effort to help Nashville’s independent music venues survive the pandemic, the city’s Convention & Visitors Corporation and the Music Venue Alliance have partnered to launch the virtual concert series Music City Bandwidth. The series will host 30 performances in September and October, with artists including Andrew Combs, Devon Gilfillian, and Kalie Shorr set

Texas singer-songwriter Garrett Owen stares down the inevitable — death — in his new song “Bleedin’ Through My Shoes.” The track is premiering exclusively on The Boot; press play below to listen. Owen began writing this song after his Aunt Katy was diagnosed with terminal cancer; sadly, she only lived a few more weeks after receiving