Steve Nedved
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Mar 19
Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson & Riley Green are booked to play the 61st ACMs
The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Riley Green make up the first round of artists confirmed to perform at the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards. In 2026, the show returns to its longtime home in Las Vegas at MGM Grand Garden Arena. It’ll also be back in …
Mar 19
Taylor Swift belongs in Country Music Hall of Fame, says country legend
Taylor Swift and Vince Gill perform at the Country Music Hall Of Fame Museum’s “All For The Hall” at Club Nokia on Sept. 23, 2010 in Los Angeles. (John Shearer/WireImage) Taylor Swift will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June, and she’s got five years to go before she’s eligible for the …
Mar 19
Trisha Yearwood will take over the Opry Sunday to raise money for breast cancer
Trisha Yearwood (Disney/Randy Holmes) Trisha Yearwood is hosting her second Band As One Nashville Concert for the Cure on Sunday, and expectations are high for several reasons. The first is the progress Trisha’s seen since losing her mother to breast cancer in 2011. “I’ve watched friends in treatment [for the same cancer as my mother] take a …
Mar 18
Brooks & Dunn’s ‘Neon Moon’ shines on C2C for the first time
Brooks & Dunn (Disney/Connie Chornuk) Even though they’re the reigning CMA vocal duo of the year and the bestselling country duo of all time, Brooks & Dunn had never traveled across the pond to play the Country to Country festival — until 2026, that is. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn took the C2C stage for …
Mar 18
Willie Nelson’s ‘Dream Chaser’ boasts a writing collab with Bob Dylan
Willie Nelson’s ‘Dream Chaser’ (Legacy Recordings) Willie Nelson will release his 79th solo studio album, Dream Chaser, on May 29. His 156th record overall continues his musical partnership with writer/producer Buddy Cannon, which has yielded nearly 20 projects in the past 13 years. The 10-track album includes a rare co-write with the legendary Bob Dylan, …
Mar 18
Jordan Davis plays his biggest show so far at London’s Wembley Arena
Jordan Davis performs in Berlin, Germany. (Frank Hoensch/Redferns) Jordan Davis is quite the world traveler these days. He recaps his half a dozen international shows so far this year in a new Instagram video set to his #12 hit “Turn This Truck Around.” “Ripped through Europe and the UK on the Ain’t Enough Road Tour …
Mar 18
‘Just Believe’: There’s a new live version of Bailey Zimmerman’s collab with Brandon Lake
Bailey Zimmerman & Brandon Lake’s “Just Believe (Live)” (Atlantic/Warner) Bailey Zimmerman’s collab with Brandon Lake was just released on Friday, but the response has been so great that they’ve already released a new live version. “SPEECHLESS… thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to ‘Just Believe’ over and over,” Bailey wrote on …
Mar 18
Luke Combs is ready to play the Super Bowl halftime show
Luke Combs (Jon Morgan/CBS) Luke Combs believes the moment is now for a country artist to play the Super Bowl halftime show. “It’s time,” he says on a new episode of The Zach Sang Show. “Whoever’s having those conversations to have, I don’t know, like, it’s above my pay grade. I don’t think that’s a …
Mar 18
Georgia boy Vincent Mason’s finding plenty of success with Morgan Wallen, Jordan Davis & Parker McCollum
Vincent Mason (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal) Roswell, Georgia, native Vincent Mason is undergoing a major life change these days, as he enjoys the top-20 success of his debut single, “Wish You Well.” “I’m just glad it’s going well. Being on country radio is really cool,” he tells ABC Audio. “For me, growing up in Georgia, I think …
Mar 17
Nashville notes: Hannah Dasher’s new order + Chayce Beckham’s Old Fashioned Tour
Chayce Beckham currently has nine more shows on his Old Fashioned Tour, amid being in the studio working on new music. Hannah Dasher’s Scattered, Smothered & Covered EP drops March 27, featuring classics by Tammy Wynette, Earl Thomas Conley and Hank Williams Jr. Her first cookbook, named for her viral video series, Stand by Your …