Alan Jackson received another award for his songwriting. After being the recipient of the ACM Poet’s Award at the recent ACM Honors, Jackson was honored again for his abilities to pen a song, this time with the Kris Kristofferson Lifetime Achievement Award, given to him from the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) at the annual Nashville Songwriter Awards. “When…
Scotty McCreery just made a very generous donation. The singer-songwriter heard about an 11-year-old boy named Liam Rade, who set up a lemonade stand in his Southern California neighborhood every weekend, to raise money to purchase his own dirt bike. Unfortunately, someone stole his stand, which prompted local radio station KSON to launch what they called “The World’s Largest…
Terri Clark and Lainey Wilson have formed a close friendship, with the country music icon including Wilson on her latest Take Two album. Clark paid tribute to Wilson at the recent ACM Honors ceremony with a performance of Wilson’s recent hit single, “Hang Tight Honey.” Wilson was in attendance to receive the ACM Milestone Award and the ACM Triple…
Alan Jackson received the Poet’s Award at the recent ACM Honors ceremony, in acknowledgment of his songwriting skills. The 65-year-old was honored with an acoustic performance of “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow” by Eric Church, a song from Jackson’s debut Here in the Real World album, which Jackson released in 1990. When accepting his award, Jackson was joined by his…
Several new artists have been added to the list of presenters for the upcoming People’s Choice Country Awards, taking place on Thursday, September 26. Scotty McCreery, Parker McCollum, Ashley Cooke, Bailey Zimmerman, Chase Rice, Cody Rhodes, Dasha, Orville Peck, Priscilla Block, Shaboozey, Tanner Adell, TODAY show’s Dylan Drery and actor and comedian Matt Rife will present the trophies throughout…
When The Oak Ridge Boys‘ Joe Bonsall announced he was retiring from touring at the start of 2024, he said it was because he was “battling a slow onset (over four years now) of a neuromuscular disorder,” which Bonsall shared when explaining his decision to come off of the road. Bonsall passed away on July 9 from complications of…
Blake Shelton has a new label home. Only a few weeks after announcing he had left Warner Music Nashville, where he had been for 23 years, the Oklahoma native reveals he has signed with BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville. “Blake is one of the biggest personalities and presences in media,” Jon Loba, President, Frontline Recordings, Americas, BMG, says of Shelton….
Keith Urban‘s euphoric, positive album, HIGH, is out now. The singer-songwriter featured songs like “Straight Line,” “Messed Up As Me,” “Wildside” and more on the 11-track project, all uptempo songs he included with the sole intention of making people feel good. The entire record ends with a song called “Break the Chain,” which is about his late father’s ongoing…
Morgan Wallen has made history yet again. The East Tennessee native performed two shows at the University of Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium on September 20 and 22, with 156,161 fans total in attendance from both nights. The two shows surpass the record The Jackson 5 set in 1984, with 148,407. “When me and the boys first started playing shows, we…
Tim McGraw is praising his wife of almost 28 years, Faith Hill. The Louisiana native took to social media to honor Hill, on September 21, which was Hill’s 57th birthday. “Happy birthday to this remarkable woman!” McGraw writes, sharing a photo from the TV show, 1883, which they both starred in previously. “My beautiful, strong, crazy, badass wife!!!! I love…
