February 3, 2012, 5:24 pm 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
January 12, 2012, 1:44 pm 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
January 11, 2012, 11:58 am 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
November 6, 2011, 11:02 pm 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
October 26, 2011, 3:15 pm 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
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