25 years ago, on January 29, 1996, Garth Brooks made history at the American Music Awards, not for what he received, but for what he refused. Brooks was the winner of the award for the night’s highest honor, Favorite Artist of the Year, but declined to accept the honor. “I cannot agree with this ,” Brooks said from stage. “Music…
Go big or go home, at least according to Eric Church! The CMA Entertainer of the Year. just announced he will release three studio albums in April, which were all written and recorded while spending 28 days in the mountains of North Carolina. The entire collection is called Heart & Soul, with each of the three words the title of…
When Tim McGraw decided to record “Highway Don’t Care,” he knew that he wanted both Keith Urban and Taylor Swift to join him on the track, which was released in 2013. The song drove straight to No. 1 and earned several awards, including both an ACM and CMA Award for Video of the Year. The three got to perform…
Eric Church is heading to the Super Bowl! The singer has been tapped to perform the National Anthem with singer Jazmine Sullivan. H.E.R. will sing “America the Beautiful.” According to People, the collaboration marks the first time two singers have shared the honor since Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin sang the National Anthem together in 2006. The Weeknd will…
Trisha Yearwood is one proud spouse. The singer recently spoke out about her husband, Garth Brooks, receiving the Kennedy Center Honors, saying there was no one more worthy than him. “I can’t think of an artist more deserving of this honor than you,” Yearwood tweeted. “ thank you for the gift of your music to a world who…
Morgan Wallen is a big fan of all kinds of music, of all kinds of genres. But when it comes to country, he knows who one of his all-time favorite artists is: Alan Jackson. In fact, it was listening to Jackson’s rendition of “The Old Rugged Cross,” released in 2006, that made him want to be a musician. “I…
If not for Eric Church, Luke Combs might have never become an artist. The North Carolina native reveals it was Church who made him realize that he wanted to pursue music more than anything else, while he was still a student at Appalachian State University. “A guy who lived on my floor brought in an Eric Church CD and…
Morgan Wallen‘s Dangerous: The Double Album, is out now. The ambitious 30-track project was recorded largely during the pandemic, with the title inspired, at least in part, by his own personal troubles he got into last year, including an arrest for disorderly conduct. “I wrote that song after I got into a little bit of trouble,” Wallen tells ABC…
Morgan Wallen has friends in high places, including Thomas Rhett. The reigning CMA New Artist of the Year reveals he wrote a song with Rhett, which he thinks might be on Rhett’s upcoming album. “I don’t like writing on Zoom, really,” Wallen admitted (via Country Now), adding that one of the Zoom writes he did was with Rhett. “I…
Eric Church is cautiously optimistic about 2021. The 43-year-old believes that the coronavirus pandemic will come to an end next year, although maybe not as early as some would like. “I think, for me, the thing I’m looking forward to most next year is getting around the corner from this virus and getting some kind of normalcy,” Eric shared…
