Grand Ole Opry vice president and general manager Pete Fisher has been named the Academy of Country Music’s new chief executive officer, the ACM announced Monday (Jan. 9). Fisher will begin his new duties on Jan. 30
Finally, Carrie Underwood has a blank canvas. Or a blank calendar, at least. Before Sunday night’s (Jan. 8) Golden Globes, where Underwood was a presenter, she walked the red carpet and stopped to talk to Ryan Seacrest
When Dolly Parton was a teenager, all she really wanted to do was write songs. But what she needed to do was make money. So she found a job that let her kind of combine her efforts.
Mrs. Ruth Musick “Mama Ruth” Jackson, Alan Jackson’s mother, died Saturday morning (Jan. 7) at her home in Newnan, Georgia, at age 86. Alan Jackson’s childhood memories of his mother inspired much of his music, including his
It’s been over six months since we first announced Nashville was coming home to CMT, and trust us, waiting was not easy. Thursday night (Jan. 5), the two-hour premiere event confirmed what we already suspected: It was
Zac Brown will receive the Country Radio Broadcasters’ CRS 2017 Artist Humanitarian Award at the organization’s annual conference in Nashville on Feb. 22. Founded in 1990, the honor is presented annually to musicians who use their careers
There are two opportunities to catch Carrie Underwood on the small screen this weekend. On Saturday’s (Jan. 8) CMT Hot 20 Countdown, Underwood goes behind the scenes of her “Dirty Laundry” music video. Airing at 9 a.m.
We all have songs like this. Ones we want to hear over and over. They are — to quote the Luke Bryan song — our play-it-again songs. Keith Urban’s is his “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” which tops
Rodney Crowell will release his 15th solo album Close Ties on March 31 through New West Records. The autobiographical 10-song collection follows the 2015 duets album with Emmylou Harris, The Traveling Kind. Close Ties features the Sheryl
Don’t sign George Strait up for a lot of fancy mixers, cordials and cocktails. It sounds like he takes his drinks, well, straight. In a new Q&A with The Daily Beast, Strait explains how he does and
