This year brought its share of spirited (to put it mildly) discussion in country music, with multiple genre-crossing collaborations reaching the charts. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line ruled for 50 weeks straight with “Meant to Be,” while Maren Morris lent her soulful pipes to Zedd and Grey’s ebullient dance …
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Solo artists, duos, trios and one-of-a-kind collaborations are all on tap at the upcoming 52nd annual CMA Awards, which announced a new slate of performers on Wednesday. Three-time CMA winner Dierks Bentley will team with his “Burning Man” partners, reigning Vocal Duo of the Year Brothers Osborne, while duo Florida …
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Our night in downtown Nashville begins in a bank-turned-tattoo-parlor-turned-Luke Bryan-themed restaurant with a pickup truck dangling over the stage where a band is covering Maren Morris’s “My Church.” The space has six levels, eight bars, numerous light-up “Luke Bryan” signs and more flat screens than a Best Buy. But we …
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Dierks Bentley delivered an old-school, all-acoustic rendition of his surging new single “Woman, Amen,” on the Grand Ole Opry Monday night, hearkening back to the historic radio show’s traditional roots. Looking dapper in a formal suit and flanked by fiddle, mandolin, stand-up bass and acoustic guitar, Bentley unplugged his band …
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