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As he deals with “devastation and grief,” Josh Turner speaks out about last week’s deadly bus crash

MCA NashvilleA week after the tour bus crash that killed one person on his crew and injured seven more, Josh Turner is speaking out about the deadly accident, which took place in Shandon, California. “As I try to write this I don’t know what to say,” Josh posted on Facebook. “It’s a struggle to put into words the …

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Midland’s ready to ‘Set It Straight’ with new podcast

Big MachineFirst, Midland Let It Roll with their sophomore album, and now they’re ready to Set It Straight with their new podcast. “We’re giving y’all the real story behind country music’s tallest tales and legends with our new podcast Set It Straight with Midland,” the trio announced on social media. In the first episode, Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy, and Jess Carson talk to Emmylou Harris’s longtime road …

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“Don’t Get Above Your Raisin'”: Ken Burns explains why ‘Country Music’ stops at 1996

PBSTonight, the epic Country Music documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns concludes on PBS. The final episode covers the years 1984 through 1996, and is titled “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’.” If you’re wondering why the film stops without examining the past two decades, Burns says it’s something he thought through very carefully. “1996 is the height of Garth Brooks‘ popularity,” …

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Watch as Chris Young memorializes Route 91 Harvest Festival victims in moving “Drowning” video

RCA Nashville Chris Young adds director to his resume with the emotional new music video for his latest single, “Drowning.” The song is about dealing with the loss of someone who passed away.  The clip opens with Chris holding a picture of Adam Carnes, his longtime friend who inspired the song. As the video continues, spouses, children, …

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Brantley Gilbert’s ready to deliver some ‘Fire & Brimstone’ on Broadway for Tootsies’ 59th birthday

Courtesy of TootsiesYou can think of it as a little Fire & Brimstone on Lower Broadway: Brantley Gilbert will headline Tootsies’ Birthday Bash in downtown Nashville next month. The celebration of the 59th anniversary of the famed Music City honky tonk will come just a few days after the release of Brantley’s sixth studio album, titled Fire & Brimstone, on …

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Garth Brooks sings for nearly six thousand fans during a Texas-sized stop on the Dive Bar Tour

ABC/Randy HolmesLeave it to Garth Brooks to metaphorically bust the walls out of a venue on one of his current tours. At Monday night’s Dive Bar Tour stop at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, Garth not only played for a capacity crowd of 800 inside the legendary dancehall, he also set up multiple big screens and …

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Miranda Lambert plays her ‘Wildcard’ — literally — but doesn’t show all of her hand

ABC Radio Monday evening at Nashville’s iconic Exit/In, Miranda Lambert played the majority of her new Wildcard album for an invitation-only group of Music City insiders. In addition to already-released tunes like her current hit “It All Comes Out in the Wash,” “Locomotive,” “Mess with My Head,” “Bluebird,” “Pretty B****in’,” and “Way Too Pretty for Prison” — with Gwen Sebastian singing …

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Kenny Chesney’s ready for some Chillaxification with FGL and OD in 2020

Warner Music NashvilleKenny Chesney may’ve skipped his usual stadium tour this year in favor of playing smaller venues, but he’ll make up for it by bringing the star power in 2020: Both Florida Georgia Line and Old Dominion will join him on next year’s trek. The Chillaxification Tour 2020 will kick off Saturday, April 18 at the home of the …

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CMA New Artist of the Year nominee Ashley McBryde is just starting to rock a little with “One Night Standards”

Walt Disney Television/Lorenzo BevilaquaCMA New Artist of the Year nominee Ashley McBryde is hinting she may be ready to rock out a little on her sophomore album.  “[My band and I are] so proud of our country roots and our bluegrass roots,” she explains. “[But] we have this tendency to be on this rock-y edge of it. …

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Dierks Bentley’s “Living” life to the fullest as he tops the country chart in the U.S. and Canada

Capitol NashvilleDierks Bentley grabs the nineteenth number one of his career this week, as “Living” tops the country charts in both the U.S. and Canada. “It started as this joke between the band and me about how little living we were actually doing during the daytime hours before our shows,” Dierks explains. “It grew into a perspective shift that …

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