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A divorce, a boyfriend and “The Weight of These Wings”: Miranda Lambert lets fans inside her life during PBS concert

ABC RadioMiranda Lambert came to Nashville’s Marathon Music Works to record a new episode of the PBS show Front and Center, but she ended up delivering some of the most personal insights yet into both her split from Blake Shelton and her subsequent relationship with Anderson East. The Tuesday night CMA Songwriters Series concert paired the Texas native with the …

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Little Big Town taking Midland and Kacey Musgraves on the road for The Breakers Tour

ABC/Image Group LALittle Big Town is hitting the road, and taking Midland and Kacey Musgraves along for the ride. The group has announced The Breakers Tour, which will kick off February 8 in Oklahoma City and stop in 26 cities, including a show at New York’s famed Radio City Music Hall.  All three acts will appear on The Tonight Show Starring …

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Another reason to “Die a Happy Man”: Thomas Rhett reflects on an “Unforgettable” week

ABC/Mark LevineThomas Rhett is feeling the love this week: his new album, Life Changes, tops both the all-genre Billboard 200 and the country albums chart. “It blows my mind to have a #1 album,” he tells Billboard. “I feel like we started working on this project the moment we put out Tangled Up in 2015, so it’s the end of a couple …

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Texans Clint Black, Don Henley and Lyle Lovett come together to help after Hurricane Harvey

ABC/Image Group LA Native Texans Clint Black, the Eagles’ Don Henley, and Lyle Lovett are coming together to stage their own fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Helping Texans:  A Hurricane Harvey Benefit Concert will take place Tuesday, November 28 at Bass Hall in Fort Worth, Texas. “We all watched on the news as Harvey destroyed much of Southeast Texas …

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Shania “NOW:” A lot has changed, except when she hits the stage

Mercury NashvilleIn a little more than a week, we’ll get to hear Shania Twain’s first studio album in 15 years, in its entirety. NOW is the Canadian superstar’s first new project since 2002’s diamond-certified Up!. “A lot has changed since then,” Shania writes in a new essay in the current issue of InStyle. “I’m divorced and remarried, been diagnosed …

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“What Ifs”: Kane Brown gives Lauren Alaina the credit for his first top-five hit

RCA Nashville/Zone 4Kane Brown has the first top five hit of his career with “What Ifs,” a duet with Lauren Alaina, and he gives her a lot of the credit for the song’s success. Even though Kane is a relative newcomer and Lauren’s been around since she came in second on American Idol in 2011, they go way back: …

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He's a “Heartache on the Dance Floor”: Why Jon Pardi might — or might not — bust a move

ABC/Image Group LA Jon Pardi is on the verge of locking in his third #1 in a row with the uptempo “Heartache on the Dance Floor.”  But just because the California native delivers dancehall-ready anthems like that song and “Dirt on My Boots,” you shouldn’t expect to see him showing off his own fancy footwork. “I’m …

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Kelsea Ballerini returns to “High School” on Friday

Black River EntertainmentIt looks like Kelsea Ballerini is heading back to “High School” this Friday. “Why would he want to change when every memory bows to him // 9.22,” Kelsea tweeted on Monday, along with a photo of herself posing in front of the bleachers in either a stadium or a gym. It didn’t take long for Kelsea’s fans …

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As his second album arrives, Chris Janson sets his sights on the Hall of Fame

Warner Music NashvilleChris Janson will mark the release of his sophomore album by hanging out at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The Missouri native’s second release, Everybody, comes out Friday, and on Saturday, he’ll be the subject of a Songwriter Session in the Hall’s Ford Theater. If you can’t make it Nashville for the …

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More girls like you: It's two more tutus for Lady A's Hillary Scott

ABC/Paula LoboLady Antebellum’s drummer, Chris Tyrrell, already lives in a house full of women — and that’s a situation that’s only growing. You see, Chris is married to Lady A’s Hillary Scott, and the two already have a four-year-old daughter named Eisele. Last month, the couple revealed they’re expecting twins, after a particularly difficult miscarriage that inspired Hillary’s …

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