The fourth time proved to be yet another charm for Blake Shelton. The megastar’s team member Craig Wayne Boyd was crowned the winner of The Voice during Tuesday’s (Dec. 16) season finale, making it the fourth win for Team Blake in seven seasons of the series. In USA Today’s report from a post-show press conference,… Read more »

Jake Owen, Maddie & Tae and Thomas Rhett have joined the star-studded lineup of CMT Ultimate Kickoff Party Live From the College Football Playoff National Championship. Airing live on Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET from Dallas, the 90-minute concert special is the official kickoff entertainment event at the national playoff weekend. In an announcement… Read more »

“Three Wooden Crosses,” the Randy Travis hit from 2002, is kind of my benchmark for a story song. Not just because there’s a beginning, a middle and an end, but because there’s a twist. (Spoiler alert: Everyone dies. Except the hooker. She is the crash’s sole survivor, but she turns to God because the dying… Read more »

Toby Keith is preparing for the release of his upcoming album, 35 MPH Town, with a brand new single and music video.   “Drunk Americans” is reminiscent of several of Keith’s earlier hits, which the singer says is for good reason.   “Sometimes you just gotta go back and do what you do best,” Keith… Read more »

Whether you’re a politician who doesn’t know the difference between “direct message” and “new tweet” or a corporation that makes an off-color joke, the Twitterverse is always waiting for you to slip up so it can embarrass you in front of the entire world. And country music stars are not exempt. Here’s a list of… Read more »

Hayden Panettiere — actress, singer, activist, philanthropist and now a proud mama. The star of ABC’s hit series Nashville welcomed her first bundle of joy with fiance Wladimir Klitschko last week, a daughter named Kaya Evdokia, according to People. Little Miss Kaya weighed 7 pounds and measured 20 inches, and if she remotely resembles her… Read more »

It took me a while to figure out what was happening Monday night (Dec. 15) on the American Country Countdown Awards. Every time someone won, they were already onstage. What a cool coincidence, right? But what that meant was that no one was apparently caught off guard in one of those I-really-didn’t-think-I’d-win moments. The winners… Read more »

There is no Nashville this week. I mean, there’s Nashville. But there’s no Nashville, the TV series.. So to bide some time, let’s think about how far Jeff Fordham has come in the season and a half that we’ve known him. I think his first episode was back in October 2013, during season two. That… Read more »

As soon as Luke Bryan was named the American Country Countdown Awards’ male vocalist of the year on Monday night (Dec. 15) night — and after he’d performed his hit song “Roller Coaster” — he had a special message to his country music fans and friends. “I wanna get serious just for a second. I… Read more »

Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan took home multiple honors, but radio was the big star Monday night (Dec. 15) during the very first-ever American Country Countdown Awards. The show, hosted by radio darlings Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, was based on the syndicated radio countdown show, American Country Countdown With Kix… Read more »