Country
The Chicks on What’s Next After Gaslighter
Kyle Meredith With… The Chicks Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS The Chicks have returned with Gaslighter, their first album in 14 years and first since dropping the Dixie in their name. Martie Maguire speaks with Kyle Meredith about what prompted their return, producer Jack Antonoff’s imprint, and the album’s cinematic sounds. Maguire goes on to talk about picking their political battles within the lyrics, bringing out “March March” during the height of the BLM protests, and landing on President Obama’s summer listening list. We also get a heads up on what the future may bring now that their contract is up with Sony and hopes to include their kids on stage when touring resumes. Kyl...
Elle King and Boyfriend Get Engaged After Proposing to Each Other While Gold Panning
The “Ex’s & Oh’s” singer’s post included numerous photos from the experience, including a shot of the couple smooching on their horses and a close-up of her beautiful engagement ring. She also shared a video from the proposal, where she excitedly announced, “Dan just proposed to me the same way I proposed to him!” Tooker, a tattoo artist, playfully added, “Beat her to it.” See her full IG post here. King, the daughter of comedian Rob Schneider, was previously married to Andrew Ferguson. The two secretly wed just three weeks after meeting in 2016. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and ...
Neil Young to Release Bottom Line 1974 Concert Bootleg
One of the most storied and coveted Neil Young bootleg recordings is finally being released as part of the musician’s Official Bootleg Series. The Bottom Line — Citizen Cane Jr. Blues captures Young’s surprise, late-night performance at The Bottom Line in New York City in May 1974. “In my mind it’s a hazy memory, but this moment really captures the essence of where I was in 1974,” Young recalled on his Neil Young Archives website. The impromptu set began around 2:30 a.m. and saw the songwriting legend take the stage alone, with nothing but his guitar by his side. Young played 11 songs that evening, including the first-ever performances of “Citizen Cane Jr. Blues”, “Long May You Run”, and “Pardon My Heart”. Other tracks, such as “Revolution Blues”, “Motion Pictures”, and “Ambulanc...
Morgan Wallen Drops Out of Oct. 9 Rome River Jam Appearance
“My actions this past weekend were pretty short-sighted and they have obviously affected my long-term goals and my dreams,” he said in the emotional video, adding that he had not tested positive for COVID-19 The festival, which allows fans to gather in their own socially-distanced, open-air pods under heavy safety guidelines, is the largest non-drive in event planned so far for country fans since the COVID-19 pandemic caused a shut down of the concert industry in March. Tonight, several hours after Wallen’s video, the Rome River Jam updated its Instagram to present a new lineup for Friday night, now featuring Lee Brice as the headliner and with Travis Denning also added to the bill featuring Hardy and Ashland Craft. The festival stated “Morgan Wallen’s performance at Rome River Jam w...
Reba McEntire Confirms She’s Dating Actor Rex Linn
Reba McEntire has a new man! The country superstar announced on her podcast Living & Learning with Reba McEntire this week that she’s dating Better Call Saul actor Rex Linn. After calling him a “very, very sweetheart of a guy,” McEntire shared how the couple blossomed amid the coronavirus. “We’ve been talking during the pandemic,” she explained. “We had dinner with Rex, was it in January? And then February, on it was the Covid pandemic, and we were talking, texting, FaceTime. And that’s a really good way to get to know people.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make mone...
The Highwomen Return to ‘Tonight Show’ for Virtual ‘Crowded Table’ Performance: Watch
With their latest appearance on The Tonight Show, The Highwomen can boast a very special achievement. The country supergroup stopped by Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show Tuesday night for a performance of “Crowded Table,” the second single off the Highwomen LP. It’s not the first time they’ve performed the song on Fallon’s show. Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires and Natalie Hemby were musical guests back in July 2019, for a performance of “Redesigning Women” and, yes, “Crowded Table.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back...
Reba McEntire & Darius Rucker to Co-Host 2020 CMA Awards
Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker have been tapped to co-host the 54th annual CMA Awards, which will air live from Nashville on ABC from 8 to 11 p.m. ET on Nov. 11. The show will take place at Music City Center in downtown Nashville, with Rucker taking the stage for the first time as host alongside six-time CMA winner McEntire, who is returning for a fifth time as host. “I’m thrilled to be back hosting the CMA Awards and even more thrilled that I get to share the stage with Darius Rucker,” said McEntire in a statement. “We’re looking forward to a night of celebrating great country music and hope you’ll tune in and watch!” Rucker added, “I look forward to the CMA Awards every year because of the incredible performances and the opportunity to celebrate the year in country mus...
Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums Chart Makes Seasonal Return, Carrie Underwood’s ‘My Gift’ Debuts at No. 1
Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart makes its seasonal return to our charts menu, as Carrie Underwood’s first holiday set, My Gift, debuts at No. 1. The album was released on Sept. 25 via Capitol Nashville and earned 43,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 1, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Underwood leads a top 10 filled with familiar favorites during the holiday season, including Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas TV soundtrack, Michael Bublé’s Christmas and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas. The Top Holiday Albums chart ranks the 50 most popular seasonal albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivale...
Austin City Limits TV Season 46 Premieres with John Prine Tribute Episode: Watch
Season 46 of Austin City Limits TV premiered over the weekend with a tribute to John Prine, who died in April after contracting COVID-19. The special hour-long episode compiled highlights from the late singer-songwriter’s eight appearances on the long-running series over a span of 40 years. Entitled “The Best of John Prine”, the episode opened with a message from a modern torchbearer of Prine’s songwriting style, Jason Isbell. “If the artist’s job is to hold up a mirror to society, John Prine had the cleanest and the clearest of anyone I’ve ever known,” said Isbell, who previously participated in a livestream tribute to Prine over the summer. “Sometimes it seemed he had a window, and he would climb right through.” From there, the performances proceeded chronologically, starting with a 1978...
John Prine Performs “Sam Stone” in Previously Unaired Austin City Limits TV Clip: Watch
Austin City Limits TV returns this weekend with the launch of its 46th season. While new episodes began filming in studio sans audience earlier this month, the season premiere will actually focus on archival footage. Specifically, the episode will be a retrospective celebration of the late John Prine, featuring selections from his impressive eight ACL appearances. Spanning five decades from Prine’s first solo acoustic set in 1978 to his final one in 2018, the footage includes one previously unaired clip from 1987. It finds the country folk great singing his classic elegy for a drug addicted veteran, “Sam Stone”. Ahead of the ACL TV season premiere on October 3rd, this rare performance is being shared today. Before going into the track from his 1971 self-titled debut, Prine did what he did ...
Blake Shelton Sends Romantic Birthday Message to Gwen Stefani: ‘I’d Write a Song For You Every Single Day’
Happy birthday, Gwen Stefani! To help celebrate the singer’s 51st birthday on Saturday (Oct. 3), Stefani’s longtime love Blake Shelton shared a romantic message dedicated to her on Instagram. “It’s a special day for a special lady in my life. Happy birthday @gwenstefani, I’d write a song for you every single day if I could…,” Shelton captioned a photo of the couple cozying up in a field. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Maren Morris Delivers Powerful Political Statement on ‘Better Than We Found It’
Maren Morris is putting her feelings about current U.S. affairs into a powerful new song and she doesn’t care whom she may offend. On “Better Than We Found It,” Morris questions if history will look back kindly on how she rose —or didn’t— to the occasion. “When lines of tomorrow are drawn/Can I live with the side that I chose to be on?/Will we sit on our hands, do nothing about it?/Or will we leave this world better than we found it,” she sings in the song she co-wrote over the summer with Jessie Jo Dillon, Jimmy Robbins and Laura Veltz. [embedded content] “I wanted to write something to address exactly how I feel right now, and this came together pretty quickly,” said Morris in a statement. “It’s a protest song—it’s the most American thing...
