CMT’s Next Women of Country is, year after year, a cross-section of the best and brightest voices in the genre that just happen to be female. And at their annual showcase in Nashville last month, two former classmates – Kelleigh Bannen and Lindsay Ell – joined one of the newest …
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Jim Nabors, who rose to fame playing bumbling, wide-eyed gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Corps recruit Gomer Pyle on two of the most popular TV programs of the 1960s, died Thursday at his home in Hawaii after being in ill health for several years. Nabors’ longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, whom he married in 2013, …
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Singer-songwriter Ned LeDoux has a surefire trick for trying to get his baby daughter to calm down when she’s crying: just cue up some cowboy music and wait for tales of the range to work their magic. “Anytime she’s throwing a fit, I’ll just turn on some Don Edwards,” he …
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Dierks Bentley was featured on Tuesday’s Good Morning America broadcast on ABC, performing his songs “Black” and “Somewhere on a Beach,” at a neighborhood block party in Austin, Texas. The gathering, which took place on Riverton Drive in theRattan Creek neighborhood, was the result of a contest entry submitted by …
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The Last Bandoleros have released a new song that blends their Beatles-esque harmonies with muscular guitars. “Fly With You” is the first of six new songs that the eclectic foursome, who mix rock, Tex-Mex and country, plan to release over the coming year. “The track was built around a Foo …
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Sunday afternoon, numerous NFL players followed quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s example, kneeling during renditions of the national anthem to protest police violence against people of color. In Nashville, that extended to anthem performer Meghan Linsey, who kneeled as she wrapped up her own rendition before the Tennessee Titans’ home game against …
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Southern California native Brett Young‘s influences from the Golden State are all over his self-titled debut album. Now he’s taken one of those influences – Laurel Canyon in particular – pretty literally in a new music video for his single “Like I Loved You.” Directed by Phillip Lopez, the scenic …
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