Chris Stapleton, Reba McEntire Axe Tours as Others Are Announced
Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic will not have a hard and fast end date. It's not just the risk to the public, but the potential concern for a public relations issue surrounding the polarizing...
View ArticleCountry Music Hall of Fame to Finally Announce 2021 Inductees
It's been a very long time coming. But the Country Music Hall of Fame has finally announced when they will reveal the newest inductees. Though country fans got used to Hall of Fame inductees being...
View ArticleReba McEntire Rescued from Crumbling Building
Yeah, I know it sounds like something you'd read in a comic book, with Clark Kent dashing into a phone booth and emerging in a spandex suit to save a damsel in distress, but in a slightly less dramatic...
View ArticleOn New York City Losing Its Only Country Radio Station
I know what you're going to say. "NeW yOrK CiTY!" like that guy in the old Pace Picante Sauce commercial. Or if you pride yourself in having any sort of semblance of taste, maybe you're wondering why...
View ArticleThe 2021 Country Music Christmas Playlist
There is just something that makes the elements of country music exceptionally complimentary to Christmas carols and Holiday music. The sense of comfort and home that is conferred by country music is...
View ArticleReba McEntire to Open “Reba’s Place” Near Hometown
It was a little disconcerting to say the least when back in September word came down that the 66-year-old Reba McEntire had to be quote/unquote "rescued" from a 100-year-old abandoned building in...
View ArticlePioneering Country Songwriter Jimbeau Hinson Has Died
Most certainly, country music has always been a bastion for more conservative and traditional viewpoints, for the most part. But there has always been exceptions and counter-balances within that...
View ArticleScoping Out The Future Home of Reba McEntire’s “Reba’s Place”
Reba McEntire definitely deserves an extra level of respect and admiration for deciding against opening up yet another tourist trap monstrosity on Lower Broadway in Nashville, just like every other big...
View ArticleGrand Ole Opry to Celebrate 90s Country in 2022
You know it to be true. The 90s era in country music is quite hot at the moment, and everyone is looking to take advantage of the renewed interest in this classic era of country. Now that includes the...
View ArticleLegendary Country Performer, Songwriter & Manager Eddie Pleasant Has Died
One of the most interesting and accomplished characters to ever grace the history of country music has unfortunately passed away. Eddie Pleasant just about did it all. He was a performer and musician....
View ArticleNashville ‘A’ Team Guitarist Ray Edenton Has Died
Maybe you're not intimately familiar with the name, but you're most definitely familiar with the licks he played, and the songs that he helped turn into country hits and standards over decades. One of...
View ArticlePaul Franklin’s Been Nominated for CMAs 30 Times. He’s Never Won.
Susan Lucci is the name people love to cite when it comes to someone who's accrued a long string of nominations for a certain award without ever actually winning it. But legendary country music steel...
View ArticleOn Chris Stapleton Singing the Super Bowl National Anthem
Chris Stapleton needs no stepping stone or discovery at this moment in his career, but we all know he will slay the National Anthem on Sunday, because this is what Chris Stapleton does. He's such a...
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MASSIVE Release Day on October 6th, 2023. Here’s Your Guide
At this point, the levee has given out, and the flood gates are open. If you have any chance of staying afloat, it will be using the list below to hopefully let you know what's coming out. The post...
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Super Bowl National Anthem Brings Reba McEntire Full Circle
In 1974 while a sophomore in college at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Reba McEntire performed the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, or NFR. The post Super Bowl...
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Post Malone, Reba McEntire Go Country for Super Bowl Opening Songs
Reba McEntire and Post Malone teamed up for countrified versions of the opening performances at the 2024 Super Bowl on Sunday (2-11). We knew country music's modern queen had been booked to perform the...
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Boring, Nondescript 2024 ACM Awards Offer Little Life
The 2024 ACM Awards had many pondering the question, is it better for an awards show to be bad for the inadvertent entertainment value as opposed to being so boring you want to gouge your eyeballs out?...
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Review –“Country Music” by Ken Burns, Final Recap
If you're a country music fan and are disappointed that your favorite artist didn't get enough screen time in the Ken Burns film on country music, well guess what, your favorite genre did, and by the...
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Prediction: Eric Church’s ‘Desperate Man’ Wins CMA Album of the Year
Eric Church's latest album Desperate Man will win the CMA Album of the Year in 2019, beating out Thomas Rhett's Center Point Road, Dan + Shay's self-titled release, Girl by Maren Morris, and Carrie...
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Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, & the CMA Entertainer of the Year
On the day after the CMA Awards, it's always important to take a deep breath, and remind yourself, "It's just the CMA's." But it does feel important to address what turned out to be the biggest...
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