Trace Adkins will celebrate his 18th anniversary as a Grand Ole Opry member on August 23. The 59-year-old has accomplished so much in his life and career, but says being part of the Grand Ole Opry will always be the most important thing he has done in country music. “It still is just as, if not more, important than…
The Oak Ridge Boys returned to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday, August 7, where they did a lot more than just perform. The famous quartet also celebrated ten years as Opry members, one of the biggest highlights of the group’s lengthy career. “We’ve been members for ten years. I gotta say, the Oak Ridge Boys have…
Tim McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill, have spent much of their marriage making music together. The couple toured together multiple times, first on McGraw’s The Spontaneous Combustion Tour in 1996, when Hill opened for McGraw, followed by three Soul2Soul Tours, in 2000, 2006 to 2007 and their Soul2Soul World Tour in 2017 and 2018, as well as a…
Gary Allan didn’t stick around to see what the United States was going to do about coronavirus. The 53-year-old lived on a yacht in the Dominican Republic during much of the pandemic, refusing to come back until there was a COVID-19 vaccine. “I told them, ‘I’ll come back from the Dominican when there’s a vaccine,’” Allan tells People. “I’m…
Luke Bryan is paying tribute to his late brother, Chris, with a song called “Songs You Never Heard.” The song, which begins with, “I heard ‘Run’ on the radio, yesterday / Got me thinking ’bout, how much you love George Strait / But by the time the airwaves ever played that song / You were already gone, you were…
When Martina McBride released “Independence Day” in 1994, it was the first hint that she wasn’t interested in bowing to acceptable topics. The Kansas native had already had a few hits at radio, including “My Baby Loves Me” and “Life #9,” but “Independence Day” marked the first song that showed McBride’s strong social compass, one that she would continue…
Reba McEntire is opening up about her battle with COVID-19. The singer reveals she and her boyfriend, CSI: Miami actor Rex Linn, were both diagnosed with the virus, in spite of being vaccinated. “I just want to say one thing: this has been a hard year and it’s getting rougher again,” McEntire revealed in a livestream on TikTok. “You…
Chris Young apparently has plenty of music friends. The Grand Ole Opry member released his eighth studio album, Famous Friends, on Friday, August 6, which landed in the No. 1 spot on the iTunes Albums Chart. Young shared a photo of the chart on social media of Famous Friends in the top spot. The record also landed at No….
Scotty McCreery just dropped the title track of his upcoming new album, Same Truck. The 27-year-old co-wrote the song with Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips, Zach Crowell, inspired by the wide variety of people he meets across the globe. “We’re all more alike than we are different,” McCreery says of the song. “I’ve witnessed that on almost a daily basis…
Trace Adkins will release his ambitious 25-track The Way I Wanna Go album on August 27. The record, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of Adkins’ debut Dreamin’ Out Loud record, was created by Adkins not for any other reason than it was because it was what he wanted to do to celebrate the milestone anniversary, a freedom that the…
