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Loretta Lynn will celebrate her 87th birthday with a massive A-list tribute concert in Nashville. Set for April 1st — two weeks before her April 14th birthday —the show benefits the Opry Trust Fund and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and features a lineup of contemporary stars …

When Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs took the Ryman Auditorium stage with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys for their first appearance together on the Grand Ole Opry on December 8th, 1945, the moment was a sort of “big bang” for bluegrass. After leaving Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs would …

The first time she ever played on the Ryman Auditorium stage in Nashvhille, Amanda Shires was distracted by the building’s formidable history. “I couldn’t look up,” she recalls in a new Behind the Scenes video from the Ryman. “All I did was look down and then I would kind of …

With an already impressive lineup in place, the star-studded tribute to legendary entertainer Willie Nelson has expanded with a new group of performers. Joining the lineup of the January 12th event at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena are Chris Stapleton, Emmylou Harris, Eric Church, Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Bare, Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson, …

Kip Moore gets an assist from fellow singer-songwriter Charlie Worsham on “It Ain’t California,” a rousing new track from the Georgia native’s Room to Spare: The Acoustic Sessions EP. The new collection, which follows the Moore’s 2017 album Slowheart, arrives November 16th. Moore had originally started writing “It Ain’t California” …

Pop performer Shawn Mendes was just 10 years old when Zac Brown Band released their 2008 breakthrough album The Foundation. Ten years later, the Toronto native shares the stage with the high-energy country-rock outfit in the latest episode of CMT Crossroads, premiering October 24th at 10:00 p.m./ET. During the nine-song …

The Stray Cats are coming home. After reuniting earlier this year for a handful of reunion shows, the rockabilly revivalists will celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2019, marking the milestone with both a new album and a full-sized tour. Bandmates Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom haven’t released …

Singer-songwriter and folk musician Mark Erelli has produced a pair of albums for Lori McKenna, accompanied musicians including Josh Ritter and Paula Cole on guitar, appeared on Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s 2007 Soul2Soul Tour, and released 11 albums as a solo artist. But in “By Degrees,” a song Rosanne …

Kacey Musgraves visited the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, performing “Happy and Sad,” from the CMA-nominated LP, Golden Hour. A ballad of romantic promise tinged with melancholy, the gauzy tune, which Musgraves wrote with her Golden Hour co-producers, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, seems a perfect fit for the changing …

Charlie Daniels will release his first album of new material since 2016’s Night Hawk with Beau Weevils — Songs in the Key of E. Due October 26th, the LP pairs Daniels with producer and musician James Stroud, who plays drums on the 10-song set. “The whole thing started one day …