For the second year in a row, Dan + Shay have taken home the People’s Choice Country Award for The Group/Duo of the Year. Both Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney were on hand to accept the trophy, expressing gratitude for a category they shared with acts like Old Dominion, Brothers Osborne, Zac Brown Band and more. “First of all,…
Shaboozey has his first People’s Choice Country Award, and won the first trophy of the evening! The Virginia native won the trophy for The New Artist of 2024, reading a heartfelt speech from stage when accepting his award. “I prepared a little something, I want to read it to you guys, ’cause it came from the bottom of my…
Scotty McCreery is rightfully proud of his wife, Gabi, and son Avery, who will turn two in October. McCreery just released a video for his song, “Porch,” from his latest Rise & Fall album, out now, showing off his sweet family. “Sometimes life is about cherishing the little things… like sitting on the porch,” McCreery said on social media, revealing that…
Ben Gallaher is already known as a stellar singer and a guitar virtuoso, both skills he shows off in his new song, out now. The Pennsylvania native just released a cover of Bryan Adams’ ‘Cuts Like A Knofe,’ first released more than 40 years ago, in 1983. It was Gallaher’s longtime producers, Neil Thrasher and Patrick Thrasher, who first…
Alan Jackson received another award for his songwriting. After being the recipient of the ACM Poet’s Award at the recent ACM Honors, Jackson was honored again for his abilities to pen a song, this time with the Kris Kristofferson Lifetime Achievement Award, given to him from the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) at the annual Nashville Songwriter Awards. “When…
Scotty McCreery just made a very generous donation. The singer-songwriter heard about an 11-year-old boy named Liam Rade, who set up a lemonade stand in his Southern California neighborhood every weekend, to raise money to purchase his own dirt bike. Unfortunately, someone stole his stand, which prompted local radio station KSON to launch what they called “The World’s Largest…
Terri Clark and Lainey Wilson have formed a close friendship, with the country music icon including Wilson on her latest Take Two album. Clark paid tribute to Wilson at the recent ACM Honors ceremony with a performance of Wilson’s recent hit single, “Hang Tight Honey.” Wilson was in attendance to receive the ACM Milestone Award and the ACM Triple…
Alan Jackson received the Poet’s Award at the recent ACM Honors ceremony, in acknowledgment of his songwriting skills. The 65-year-old was honored with an acoustic performance of “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow” by Eric Church, a song from Jackson’s debut Here in the Real World album, which Jackson released in 1990. When accepting his award, Jackson was joined by his…
Several new artists have been added to the list of presenters for the upcoming People’s Choice Country Awards, taking place on Thursday, September 26. Scotty McCreery, Parker McCollum, Ashley Cooke, Bailey Zimmerman, Chase Rice, Cody Rhodes, Dasha, Orville Peck, Priscilla Block, Shaboozey, Tanner Adell, TODAY show’s Dylan Drery and actor and comedian Matt Rife will present the trophies throughout…
When The Oak Ridge Boys‘ Joe Bonsall announced he was retiring from touring at the start of 2024, he said it was because he was “battling a slow onset (over four years now) of a neuromuscular disorder,” which Bonsall shared when explaining his decision to come off of the road. Bonsall passed away on July 9 from complications of…
