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  • Her place: Ashley Cooke's headed to 'Marshals'
    Ashley Cooke (David O'Donohue)Riley Green isn't the only country artist on the set of the Yellowstone spinoff Marshals.Sunday's episode of the series features a cameo appearance from Ashley Cooke. The "Your Place" singer will be seen in a bar performing her track "Next To You" from her 2023 debut album, Shot...Read more
    Published 9 hours ago
  • Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Post Malone to headline New Jersey's Barefoot Country Music Fest
    Eric Church appears on ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' (Disney/Randy Holmes)Eric Church and Miranda Lambert will be heading to the Jersey Shore this summer.They, along with Kelsea Ballerini and Post Malone, are the headliners for this year's Barefoot Country Music Fest, set for June 18-21 at Wildwood Beach in Wildwood, New...Read more
    Published 10 hours ago
  • Watch Gabby Barrett make it through the rain in new video for 'The Easy Part'
    Gabby Barrett (Robby Klein)Gabby Barry won't come in out of the rain in her new video for "The Easy Part."In the clip for the breakup song, which she co-wrote with HARDY and others, Gabby stands in the street singing about the end of a relationship while we see a couple...Read more
    Published 11 hours ago
  • Carrie Underwood reveals the one thing she'd change about her 'American Idol' experience
    Carrie Underwood on ABC's 'American Idol' (Disney/Eric McCandless)Carrie Underwood is one of the biggest stars to emerge from American Idol, but even though her time on the show obviously worked out the best it possibly could have for her, she still has one regret.Asked by Billboard what she would change if she...Read more
    Published 12 hours ago
  • Megan Moroney shares her unique career goals
    Megan Moroney attends the 59th Annual CMA Awards, Nov. 19, 2025 Nashville, Tennessee (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)CMA Awards, #1 hits, headlining tours — Megan Moroney has achieved all of those things, so now she's got some more unique goals.In a Vanity Fair feature, Megan says she wants a wax figurine, meaning a wax statue...Read more
    Published 13 hours ago
  • Lainey Wilson shares her plans for a family, Keith Urban's advice
    Lainey Wilson on the CMA red carpet in Nashville, Nov. 19, 2025. (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)Lainey Wilson and her fiancé, Devlin “Duck” Hodges, would like to have some little ducklings one day.While appearing on the Australian podcast No Filter with Kate Langbroek, Lainey said she and Duck "definitely wanna have a family,"...Read more
    Published 14 hours ago
  • How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Be Kelsea Ballerini
    Kelsea Ballerini performs on the ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ (Disney/Frank Micelotta)The punch line to that old joke, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" is no longer "practice" — it's "be Kelsea Ballerini."Kelsea has been added to the lineup for An Evening with the Grand Ole Opry, a special...Read more
    Published 15 hours ago
  • How Lauren Alaina's husband laid the groundwork for her hit duet
    Lauren Alaina & Cam Arnold (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)Lauren Alaina's duet partner in life, Cam Arnold, is responsible for her duet partner on her latest hit, "All My Exes" with Chase Matthew. "He is the best. I love that guy so much," Lauren says of the "Darlin'" hitmaker. "My husband is the...Read more
    Published 20 hours ago
  • Nashville notes: Skip Ewing's Mae Estes duet + Eric Paslay's ballet gig
    Gloria Anderson, from Luling, Texas, is the winner of Tractor Supply Company's Life Out Here Emerging Artist Program. As part of her prize, she got to play ahead of a private Cody Johnson show, record a song at Nashville's Blackbird Studio and meet with music industry executives.Eric Paslay will now headline...Read more
    Published 1 day ago
  • The latest globe-trotting adventures of Dustin Lynch
    Dustin Lynch (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)Where in the world is Dustin Lynch these days? Well, it's probably not the place you would expect: South America. "Annual New Country boys trip is underway!" he posted on his socials. "Argentina is off to a great start. Amazing people."For the past few years, Dustin and...Read more
    Published 1 day ago
  • Kenny Chesney explores the music of Willie Nelson in new season of 'One by Willie'
    Willie Nelson and Kenny Chesney performs at Farm Aid at the Comcast Center on September 20, 2008 in Mansfield, Massachusetts. (Paul Natkin/WireImage)Kenny Chesney leads off the new season of the One by Willie podcast focusing on his love for Willie Nelson's 1976 recording of "That Lucky Old Sun." Of course, Kenny...Read more
    Published 1 day ago
  • Adding a 5th child to the mix? 'We'll be here,' Thomas Rhett reacts
    Willa Gray Akins, Thomas Rhett, Ada James Akins and Lauren Akins attend the 53rd annual CMA Awards at the Music City Center on November 13, 2019 in Nashville. (John Shearer/WireImage)How are Thomas Rhett and family adjusting to life after the birth of their son in late February? TR's posted an...Read more
    Published 1 day ago
  • Megan Moroney's 'Medicine,' 'Vanity Fair' feature and 'Drew Barrymore Show' debut
    Jimmy Fallon & Megan Moroney (Todd Owyoung/NBC)Megan Moroney administered some "Medicine" during her Wednesday performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.That's the song from her third studio album that she chose to sing for her second appearance on the TV staple. Cloud 9 had an impressive debut, emerging at...Read more
    Published 2 days ago
  • Alan Jackson's final show sells out, adds opening act
    'Alan Jackson’s Last Call: One More for the Road' – The Finale (Doussan Music Group and Peachtree Entertainment)Alan Jackson's final full-length touring performance of his career is now officially sold out. Alan Jackson's Last Call: One More for the Road — The Finale will take place June 27 at Nashville's Nissan...Read more
    Published 2 days ago
  • John Morgan has 'Kid Myself' because he wouldn't cancel on this superstar
    John Morgan (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)When John Morgan wrote his latest hit, "Kid Myself," he already had plenty of songs for his debut album, Carolina Blue. But thanks to an already-scheduled writing appointment with Tyler Hubbard, he was compelled to write one more. "When we were putting the album together, we had probably...Read more
    Published 2 days ago

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