To take your music from the Texas scene to the national scene takes some guts. Because Texas is, well, Texas. They seem to have their own way of doing things. But Josh Abbott Band is doing it. And I think that might have something to do with the band’s lack of that Texas snobbery. They’re… Read more »

Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn will launch their Las Vegas residency a week earlier than anticipated. They have added June 17, 19 and 20 to their dates at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Tickets are on sale now. Due to popular demand, we’ve added three new June 2015 dates to @reba @Brooks_Dunn #TogetherinVegas @ColosseumatCP!… Read more »

Eric Church is on the short list of Grammy Awards performers announced Tuesday (Jan. 13). He joins AC/DC, Madonna, Ariana Grande and Ed Sheeran as the first artists to be revealed for the 57th annual show, taking place Feb. 8 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Church is up for four awards this year:… Read more »

When your teenage daughter is singing a country song that’s almost 50 years old, you know you’ve done your job. So when Martina McBride tweeted on Monday (Jan. 12) that her daughter was singing an old Loretta Lynn song, it sounds like she was thrilled. Who wouldn’t be? My 16 year old is singing “Fist… Read more »

This is how small Sheryl Crow’s hometown is: David Nail’s father was her high school band director. Her mother taught Nail how to play piano. Trent Tomlinson’s father was her junior high basketball coach. And Blackjack Billy‘s Noll Billings’ father was her track coach. And in that tiny little town of Kennett, Missouri, is one… Read more »

Breaking records and taking names. That’s Eric Church’s main M.O. lately, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. He brought his Outsiders World Tour home to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Saturday night (Jan. 10) and played to a crowd of more than 18,000 fired-up fans. To be exact, it was a total of 18,411… Read more »

The late ‘90s were a good time for Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley. It was also a really good time for the Backstreet Boys. But first … Kelley. Somewhere around 1997-98, the future Florida Georgia Line member was in sixth grade when he got his first taste of a pretty big concert. You might even… Read more »

Fresh off performances at CMT Ultimate Kickoff Party on Friday (Jan. 9) at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Lady Antebellum and Aloe Blacc will head over to AT & T Stadium in Arlington. That’s where the inaugural college football playoff championship will be played Monday (Jan. 12) between the No. 2 Oregon… Read more »

If Dierks Bentley asked you to jump in a lake, would you do it? What if it was 45 degrees and raining? That’s what appears to be happening right now to Kip Moore, Maddie & Tae and Canaan Smith, who got called out Monday (Jan. 12) by Bentley to join him on his annual Percy… Read more »

The George Jones Museum is slated to open the weekend of April 24 in downtown Nashville, his widow Nancy Jones announced Monday (Jan. 12). Nancy Jones Sets @gjpossum Museum Grand Opening Weekend & Unveils Descriptive Layout Of Future Museum! http://t.co/xqwC3YY3Tg #TeamGJ — George Jones (@gjpossum) January 12, 2015 The opening coincides with the anniversary of… Read more »