The CMA Awards will more or less return to its usual form for its 55th year. After a 2020 edition that was held in a different location and without an audience, the annual event will be broadcast once again from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena and fans will be in the seats. …
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Flatland Cavalry have come a long way, both literally and figuratively. When the band’s singer, Cleto Cordero, speaks with Rolling Stone, he and the band are in Texarkana, on the eastern border of his home state of Texas, having driven all the way from the West Texas city of Odessa …
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CMT’s Artists of the Year awards show will be back this fall in its usual form after hitting pause in 2020 to recognize pandemic frontline workers in healthcare, military, and education with the “CMT Honors Our Heroes” special. The 2021 CMT Artists of the Year ceremonies, set to air live …
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Breland wasn’t even a year old when Deana Carter released “Strawberry Wine,” her 1996 ballad about the passing of teenage innocence beneath a “hot July moon.” But the country whiz kid who broke out with the viral “My Truck” regards Carter’s song as a touchstone of his introduction to country …
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Tanya Tucker and RuPaul have dropped a collaboration fit for an aspiring queen with their new duet “This Is Our Country.” The song originally debuted in the season six finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars, in which Tucker starred and gave the competitors some advice. Penned by RuPaul, Leland, Freddy …
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UPDATE (8/17): Health officials in Washington state’s Grant County have updated the total number of Covid cases related to the Watershed festival outbreak to “over 230,” according to a release on Tuesday. Cases linked to the country music concert have been identified in 13 counties. *** The Watershed country music …
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Chris Stapleton has dropped his rendition of Metallica’s 1992 single “Nothing Else Matters,” which appears on The Metallica Blacklist as part of the band’s 30th anniversary reissue of its self-titled album, also known as The Black Album. Stapleton fuses his country-soul leanings with heavy-metal undertow in his sprawling eight-minute rendition, …
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Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real performed three songs from their latest album A Few Stars Apart for CBS This Morning’s Saturday Sessions. For the performance, the band showcased“Perennial Bloom (Back to You),” “More Than We Can Handle,” “Giving You Away” from their album, which Nelson and company wrote …
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Nashville country-rock trio the Cadillac Three sing in praise of the open road and living fully in their latest release “Get After It.” The new video, out Thursday, displays that message in the form of some pulse-quickening hardware. Made in partnership with BMW Motorrad and Marshall Amplification, the “Get After …
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Lady Gaga has released the second cover song from Born This Way the Tenth Anniversary with Orville Peck’s reinvention of the title track as “Born This Way (The Country Road Version).” The new release follows Big Freedia’s update of “Judas” and is one of six Born This Way tracks to …
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