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Following a six-year run on ABC, CMT and Hulu, Nashville is headed for the Great White Way. Lionsgate, the powerhouse Hollywood studio that produced the drama series in conjunction with ABC Studios, has revealed plans to breathe new life into the show’s familiar characters with an upcoming Broadway musical. Scott …

From toiling in the cotton fields of Mississippi to being enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Charley Pride’s journey out of the segregated South was fraught with adversity. In the upcoming PBS American Masters special, Charley Pride: I’m Just Me, debuting nationwide on Friday, February 22nd, at 9:00 …

Eclectic country/rock/Tejano group the Last Bandoleros have released a new song titled “Enamorado” — Spanish for “in love” —timed, not coincidentally, for Valentine’s Day. The track, sung in both English and Spanish, features bassist Diego Navaira on lead, guitarist Jerry Fuentes on the bridge and the entire group, rounded out …

Country Music Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson and modern outlaw Jamey Johnson lament the swift passage of time and take a stroll through a classic car museum in the new video for “Everybody Wants to Be Twenty-One.” Filmed at Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, the clip sees the two …

Ahead of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, nine-time Grammy winner Dolly Parton was featured in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, opening up about early adulation, the hidden benefit of songwriting and her personal view on feminism. “It’s my therapy,” Parton said of songwriting. “My ol’ guitar is …

Ruston Kelly recently unveiled shirts adorned with the words “Dirt Emo,” a pretty spot-on term to describe his sound that melds some Southern flourishes, like steel guitar and evocative, narrative songwriting, with the emotional draw — and communal cry-along quality — of emo’s best anthems. On Saturday night at Nashville’s …

Update [7/19]: Kacey Musgraves has announced an additional five U.S. dates to her tour, with two shows each in Dallas, Texas, and New York City, and a stop at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville with Maggie Rogers. See the full list below. Kacey Musgraves has added a string of late-summer dates …

Thirty-nine years ago next month, Linda Ronstadt released Mad Love, her tenth LP as a solo artist. Ronstadt had previously topped both the pop and country singles charts respectively with high-spirited takes on “You’re No Good” and “When Will I Be Loved,” but Mad Love put the singer in new-wave …

The C2C: Country to Country festival is gearing up for a year of major expansion in 2019, and performers headlining the multi-city event this time around will be Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and Chris Stapleton. Now in its seventh year, the three-day festival is spread across three different locations, rotating …

Grand Ole Opry member Trace Adkins will return to the road this year on the Don’t Stop Tour 2019. The “You’re Gonna Miss This” singer announced an extensive series of shows on Tuesday. Beginning February 9th in San Antonio, Texas, Adkins will play shows through November, with 39 dates currently …