After an incredible 12 months that included the 2023 Country Music Association (CMA) Entertainer of the Year award along with a recently announced Nashville bar and a Top 10 all-genre album with Whirlwind, Lainey Wilson continues her hot streak, joining Luke Bryan and 5x NFL MVP, Peyton Manning, as co-host for this year’s CMA Awards. This morning, as reported by Variety, Wilson, who’s up for four awards including Entertainer of the Year, will join Bryan and Manning, who’ve hosted the awards show for the past two years, as the first female co-host of the show since Carrie Underwood ended her…
Author: Brennen Kelly
With the entire country music world mourning the loss of Kris Kristofferson, who died yesterday at the age of 88 years old, it seemed right to unearth some of the best performances of his legendary, sprawling career. Of course, you have his legendary collaborations with Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash on “Why Me Lord” and “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” but there’s one performance from 2003 that remains one of his best collaborative efforts. That performance is none other than his tribute to fellow Highwayman, Johnny Cash, shortly after his passing at the 37th annual Country Music Awards in which he,…
After sending the country world into a frenzy with the announcement and release of his brand new duet with Carrie Underwood, “I’m Gonna Love You,” Cody Johnson dropped another surprise tonight with the announcement of the deluxe edition to his 2023 album, Leather, simply titled Leather Deluxe Edition which releases on November 1st. Minutes ago, Johnson took to Instagram to announce the deluxe album’s release with the caption, “Surprise! I love making music for y’all so much, and I’m stoked to announce that I’m releasing the #LeatherDeluxeEdition, with 13 new tracks, out November 1st.” Johnson indicated that the deluxe version of…
After the announcement of the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards nominees two weeks ago, many have been weighing in on their picks for the highly coveted Entertainer of the Year nominations. From Bobby Bones saying that it should come down to Zach Bryan (who wasn’t nominated), Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs, to Luke Bryan showing favor to Morgan Wallen due to his record-breaking One Night At A Time tour, many have been giving their two cents on who should win the proverbial MVP award at the CMAs. As a reminder, the nominees include the following: Today, reigning CMA Entertainer of…
Last night at the 17th ACM Honors, Alan Jackson was presented with the ACM’s Poets Award, an honor presented to a songwriter for “outstanding and longstanding musical and/or lyrical contributions throughout their career. A plethora of today’s country artists covered Jackson’s hits throughout the night with Jordan Davis performing “Chattahoochee,” Carly Pearce performing “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” and most notably, Eric Church performing a stripped-back version of his 1990 hit, “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow.” In typical Church fashion, he made the song his own, delivering a soulful acoustic rendition of the song. Though it doesn’t sound incredibly similar to Jackson’s original version, Church did the song…
After the recent announcement of his brand new bar in Nashville, Riley Green’s Duck Blind, his upcoming album, Don’t Mind If I Do and the continuing success of his collaboration with Ella Langley, “you look like you love me,” there’s no doubt that Riley Green is one of the hottest artists in Nashville. Today, the Alabama native is back with yet another new announcement, his 2025 North American tour, aptly titled the Damn Country Music Tour. Green took to Instagram this morning to post a tour announcement video inspired by the 1977 Burt Reynolds classic, Smokey and the Bandit. The Damn Country…