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Team Clarkson contender Holly Brand went up against her teammate Katie Beth during the latest edition of Season 23’s Battle Rounds on The Voice. On Monday night (April 3), Brand, a country songstress, and Beth, a pop singer, dueled it out on a cover of Ingrid Andress’ “Lady Like,” the title track from her 2020

“Midland’s The Last Resort Cruise” sets sail in April of next year with Orville Peck, Flatland Cavalry, Hayes Carll, Kaitlin Butts, and more joining the “Drinkin’ Problem” trio Few country bands embody the pirate lifestyle more than Midland — they’ve never met a bar they haven’t plundered. Now the “Drinkin’ Problem” country trio are taking

Multi-Platinum Grammy Award Winning Global Megastar Usher has released his first single in three years. “GLU”, the steamy single written and produced by Sean Garrett, Lil John, The Avila Brothers and Usher captures Usher at the top of his game — musically & vocally — and marks the creative reunion of Usher and L.A. Reid, who haven’t worked

Tanya Tucker, Patty Loveless and Bob McDill have been chosen as the Country Music Hall of Fame’s class of 2023. This year’s roster of inductees was unveiled during a live-streamed press event on Monday (April 3) hosted by Vince Gill. Tucker, who has been enjoying a recent career renaissance following the release of her critically acclaimed 2019 record While I’m Livin’,

You could be forgiven for tuning in to Sunday night’s CMT Music Awards in Austin, Texas, and having the sensation that you’d stepped through a time portal into a mid-1990s VMAs or a mid-2000s CMAs, or a smoked-out arena in 1970s Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Because the annual fan-voted awards show, now filling the April slot of

The 2023 CMT Music Awards are airing tonight (April 2) on CBS and will be available to stream on Paramount+ live from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas beginning at 8PM ET. Zac Brown Band were early winners in the night, taking home the award in the Group/Duo Video of the Year category for “Out in the

Seattle rapper Macklemore takes fans behind the scenes of the official music video for Grammy-winning single “Thrift Shop,” from his debut album The Heist in the latest installment of Vevo Footnotes, premiering today. The exclusive content is part of Vevo’s celebration to honor the historic 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop. Previously, Macklemore has worked with Vevo on a series

Emmylou Harris, an award-winning and history-making artist, has been creating incredible music for over six decades. Born on April 2, 1947, in Birmingham, Ala., Harris showed interest in the arts from a young age. That passion earned her a scholarship to attend the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of North Carolina

Ketch Secor helped found the Episcopal School of Nashville, where his two young children are currently students. It’s a small, private Christian institution that has much in common with the Covenant School of Nashville, which was the site of a grisly mass shooting earlier this week that claimed the lives of three children and three

The Cadillac Three tap into the searing, lingering pain of missing a loved one in their powerful new track “This Town Is a Ghost.” In the song, frontman Jaren Johnston reflects on the loss of his father, former Grand Ole Opry drummer Jerry Ray Johnston, who died on Jan. 9, 2022, at the age of

The CMT Music Awards is saddling up and heading west this year to that beloved musical and cultural mecca of Austin, Texas. But while the scenery may be different, much will remain the same: two of the CMT Music Awards’ previous hosts will be leading the proceedings, the performance lineup will still run the gamut

The fourth month of the year, April includes many exciting occasions and observances, including the Boston Marathon, Record Store Day, Earth Day and April Fools’ Day, along with everyone’s least favorite day: Tax Day. But April also is the birthday month of a bunch of country stars. Sharing a birthday month with these fun (and not-so-fun) events

LeAnn Rimes and Wynonna Judd will re-create “The Honkettes” to honor the Southern rock band and guitarist Gary Rossington, who died earlier this month An all-star cast of guitar heroes, vocalists, and sidemen will pay tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and

Country hitmaker Ty Herndon is teaming up with LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD to revive their star-studded Concert for Love and Acceptance this June. First held in 2015, the event will return as an in-person fundraiser for the first time since 2019 after being streamed as a virtual-only event for two years due to the COVID-19

We’re back with another edition of The Boot’s Weekly Picks, which highlights great new tracks from the world of country, Americana, folk and everything in between. This week’s list features a powerful and deeply personal story-song from Ron Pope, a message of affirmation from Bobby Stevens, while Brittany Ann Tranbaugh unpacks the mix of emotions that comes when navigating a long distance relationship.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have dropped the latest track off their upcoming album Weathervanes. Titled “Middle of the Morning,” it’s an easy-like-Sunday-morning jam that finds Isbell tapping into the power-singing he does on his live staple “Cover Me Up.” It’s also a contender for a new Isbell classic. [embedded content] “Well, I’ve tried

With their very first albums, these 10 country artists made a statement. From Johnny Cash in 1957 to the Dixie Chicks (now the Chicks) in 1998, Connie Smith in 1965 to Chris Stapleton in 2015, these albums changed the game. Whether they ushered in a new sound, brought tradition back to the genre, filled a gap in the

In their brand new track “Middle of the Morning,” Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit offer a raw interpretation of the frustrations and fears many of us faced during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Penned while navigating lockdown at home, Isbell was forced to navigate a new normal away from the road and

Margo Price, Sheryl Crow, and Old Crow Medicine Show‘s Ketch Secor will join Nashville mayor John Cooper and Council Member Russ Pulley to honor victims of the March 27 shooting at The Covenant School. According to the Tennessean, the three singer-songwriters will be on hand for the Nashville Remembers vigil, which begins at 5:30 PM CT tonight (March 29) at Public

Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks, two of the most outsized personalities in country music, will share hosting duties for the 2023 Academy of Country Music Awards. The hosting gig marks Brooks’ first stint on the show, but he’s in good hands alongside Parton, who returns for her second consecutive year. The ACMs stream live on

Sixty-three years ago today (March 29, 1960) was an historic day for Nashville, although no one was aware of it at the time. It was on that date that Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge opened on Lower Broadway, just steps away from the Ryman Auditorium. The venue now known as Tootsie’s was open prior to 1960 as

Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette and Gwen Stefani are three heavy hitters among an all-female slate of new additions to the 2023 CMT Music Awards performance lineup. Morissette’s appearance on the awards show stage will be her CMT Music Awards debut. She will lead a group performance of her landmark of her 1995 smash hit, “You

Rodney Atkins released his first album, Honesty, in 2003, but his career got started a few years earlier than that. He actually charted his first non-album single, “In a Heartbeat,” in 1997. And ever since that first 1997 single, Atkins has made a career out of writing and performing country songs that celebrate the simple

Freya Ridings continues the hype for her Blood Orange album with new single “Can I Jump?” – released alongside her second Live At Alexandra Palace performance video. Ridings also officially announces that the release date of the Blood Orange album is moving forward to April 28 th , in preparation for an intimate album release

Three children and three adult staff members were pronounced dead after a shooting at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in the Green Hills area of Nashville, Tenn, on Monday morning (March 27). All three of the pediatric victims, as well as two of the adult victims, were transported to Vanderbilt University Hospital, where

Self-titled project also includes appearances by Derek Trucks and Lucius Brandy Clark and Brandi Carlile make a dream pairing as collaborators on Clark’s latest album. The self-titled release, which was produced by Carlile, will be released May 19 and includes the new track “Buried.” Clark’s fingerstyle guitar playing is the foundation on which “Buried” is

Kenneth Arnold Chesney, known as Kenny Chesney to his legions of fans, was born on March 26, 1968, to father David Chesney, a former elementary school teacher, and mother Karen Chandler, a hair stylist. The future country superstar graduated from high school in 1986 and from East Tennessee State University in 1990. During those years, he

During the 1990s, country music was dominated by a new generation of talented artists ready to make their mark on the genre. Jeff Carson‘s rise to stardom arrived halfway through the decade with the release of his self-titled debut album and the heartfelt single “Not on Your Love,” which became the singer-songwriter’s first and only

Rissi Palmer had a brief brush with the country-music mainstream in 2007 when her song “Country Girl” made it onto Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Its success makes her one of only three Black women, alongside Linda Martell and Mickey Guyton, to have ever achieved the feat with a solo recording. “If that doesn’t tell