Top 10 Country Tweets of the Week

Country music stars sure love Twitter! This week, Reba pokes fun at a hoax claiming she’d died in Austria, Sarah Buxton comes up with a clever invention, Jake Owen deals with a tired pup, Little Big Town teases their whereabouts, and proud dad Rhett Akins hears his son, Thomas Rhett, on the radio for the [...] Read More

Thomas Rhett Follows In His Father’s Footsteps

When your father is Rhett Akins, a lot of people assume you want to be just like him. But Thomas Rhett, Rhett’s son, was the exact opposite. He had every intention of taking a different career path. “My whole life, I’d always loved music,” Thomas said. “My dad taught me to play basic chords on [...] Read More

Here’s What Inspires Brantley Gilbert

Brantley Gilbert describes his brand of country music as New Southern Rock, but his influences are wide and varied. As he enjoys success of his own, he finds it a little mind boggling that he gets to spend time with some of the artists he’s looked up to for years. “I love nineties country,” he [...] Read More

Brad Paisley, Ben Hayslip Take Home Top ASCAP Awards Honors

Brad Paisley was named Songwriter/Artist of the Year and Ben Hayslip was honored as Songwriter of the Year at ASCAP’s 49th Annual Country Music Awards held November 6 in Nashville. Other big winners of the night were “The House That Built Me,” written by Allen Shamblin, for Country Song of the Year and Sea Gayle [...] Read More

GAC Album Review: Joe Nichols’ It’s All Good

In many ways, It’s All Good is like the first page in the next chapter from the book of Joe Nichols. Just this past January, the 34-year-old Arkansas native released a greatest hits project that included chart-toppers like “Brokenheartsville” and “Gimmie That Girl.” Now with an empty canvas, Joe returns with his eighth studio album, [...] Read More