Lainey Wilson was destined for stardom. The 33-year-old recalls being just five years old, singing “Butterfly Kisses” at her school’s kindergarten graduation, and knowing even then that she was meant to be a singer. “I was ready,” Wilson tells People. “I’ll tell you what, I felt alive at five years old. I knew it was the Holy Spirit speaking…
Trisha Yearwood‘s The Mirror album is out. The 15-track record is entirely co-written by Yearwood, a career first for the 60-year-old. “When I was 19 years old, someone told me I wasn’t a songwriter, and I let that be the truth for a very long time,” Yearwood says of the record. “But at some point in the past few…
Lainey Wilson‘s Tough as Nails exhibit is open now at the Country Music Hall of Fame. The exhibit includes various awards, lyric sheets, wardrobe items, her Hannah Montana wig and more. “When I first got to Nashville, everybody said, ‘You need a champion,’” Wilson recalls during her remarks at a reception celebrating the opening. “‘Someone who will fight for…
Austin Brown‘s career as a solo artist is better than ever. After leaving Home Free in 2024 to release music on his own, Brown successfully made it onto America’s Got Talent, boldly auditioning twice in the same season, the second time singing his own “Somebody Believed” song, a testament to his wife, Amberly. “She’s my biggest supporter,” Austin tells Everything Nash….
Miranda Lambert is sharing the story behind her “A Song To Sing” duet with Chris Stapleton. The song was written by Lambert and Stapleton, along with Jesse Frasure and Jenee Fleenor. “I had a date with Jesse Frasure,” Lambert recalls on SiriusXM‘s The Highway. “He randomly reached out to Chris kind of last minute and was like, ‘Hey, you…
Ella Langley is so grateful for Lainey Wilson. It’s Wilson who has been a mentor and supporter for Langley, since the very beginning. “She’s exactly how she is,” Langley boasts on Country Nights Live. ‘We met early on in town, and I actually opened a show for Lainey in 2023. It was before she had her big moment, right…
When Jamey Johnson released his Midnight Gasoline album last year, it included a song called “Sober.” Written by Johnson, along with James Slater, the song says in part, “It ain’t easy on the wagon / Hell, I lost more of my mind than I have found / All these drinking songs we’re playing / Make it hard staying sober…
Blake Shelton is opening up about how he chooses songs for his albums. Shelton, who only wrote one song on his latest For Recreational Use Only album, says he intentionally doesn’t look at who wrote the songs he is pitched for his projects, preferring instead to truly let the best song win. “It’s not like I’ve meant to, but…
When Jelly Roll won three CMT Awards in 2023, he was just beginning his meteoric rise in country music. The three he won were all for “Son of a Sinner,” his first single. At the time, Jelly Roll was very much still uncertain how welcome a former inmate with facial tattoos would be received in country music, but he…
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Breanna Nix is making her mark in country music. After coming in third in the most recent season of American Idol, Nix released her own song, “Higher,” and is busy making music on her own. While Nix has had plenty of unbelievable moments since first auditioning for Idol, few will likely compare to what she recently got to accomplish:…
