Jelly Roll has a CMT Music Award! The Tennessee native won the trophy for Male Breakthrough Video of the Year, for his No. 1 hit, “Son Of A Sinner.” “They let a loser win tonight, baby,” Jelly Roll said when accepting his trophy. “They let a loser win tonight. I wanna thank my record label, Stoney Creek. I wanna…
HARDY and Lainey Wilson leading won the CMT Music Award for Best Collaborative Video of the Year! The two won for their thought-provoking “wait in the truck” collaboration. “It’s so hard not to cuss,” HARDY quipped when he accepted the trophy. “This is incredible. I remember the day that Jordan Schmidt, who I wrote the song with, sent me…
Garth Brooks and Dolly Parton have never hosted anything together, let alone a live awards show, but they admit they are both longtime fans of each other. The two sang each other’s praises, while speaking about their upcoming gig as co-hosts of the 2023 ACM Awards, with Brooks saying he would take his cues from Parton and the other…
Fans of Edley’s Bar-B-Que in Nashville now have a new location to enjoy their world-famous barbecue, and will soon have another option as well. The popular restaurant, which offers brisket, ribs, hot chicken and more, has relocated to 1004 Woodland Street in East Nashville, offering even more ways to serve their guests. “We’ve loved the first ten years in…
Steven Curtis Chapman is sharing a song he wrote amid his grief of losing his daughter, Maria Sue, in 2008. The Kentucky native offered an acoustic performance of “Questions,” from his 2009 Beauty Will Rise album, in tribute to the tragic school shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, which left six people dead. “Ever since the devastating events here…
Kelsea Ballerini never imagined that people would still be talking about Rolling Up The Welcome Mat more than six weeks after it was released. The Tennessee native wrote all six songs on the EP as a way to cope with her mixed emotions about the end of her marriage to Morgan Evans, unaware that the entire project would gain a…
We already knew that Scotty McCreery is working on a new album, which will be his sixth. But this one will be different than any of his previous records, thanks to his new role of being a dad to his son, Avery. “There’s definitely gonna be some baby songs, as you could guess,” McCreery tells Taste of Country. “My…
Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks were just announced as the hosts of this year’s 2023 ACM Awards. The show will mark the first time Brooks ever hosted an awards show, but that’s not what intimidates him the most. Instead, it’s sharing a stage with his fellow Country Music Hall of Fame member that scares him more than anything. “Just sitting here,…
Dalton Dover‘s life could have gone in an entirely different direction. The Georgia native found himself a teenage father, and did the only thing he knew to do: drop out of high school to support his growing family. “I just felt like I had no other choice,” Dover reveals on Southern Living‘s Biscuits & Jam podcast. “I was welcoming…
Three years ago today was a sad day for the country music community. On March 29, 2020, Joe Diffie passed away from complications of COVID-19. Diffie was just 61 years old when he died. Only a couple of days before his death, and as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to be felt all across the world,…
